Freud's developing theories on sexual desire cause controversy among his peers. Narrator: In the first decade of the 20th century, Viennese society was all gaiety and glitter. This is how they ...

Sigmund Freud was born on May 6th, 1856 in a rented room over a blacksmith's shop in Freiberg in Moravia, a small town in what is now a part of the Czech Republic, fifty miles north of Vienna.

Despite his upbringing, sudden poverty and early scientific encounters lead Sigmund away from religion. Narrator: The man who would become an atheist was raised in a world steeped in religious belief.