



Read by Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Jordan Peterson and 2 others

Source: Dostoevsky and Parricide (1928)
Oedipus the King
“The legend of the Greek king Oedipus, who kills his father and marries his mother... His destiny moves us only because it might have been our own.”
— Sigmund Freud
Source: The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
“In Hamlet the subject has not been confused by any modifications... the loathing which should drive him on to revenge is replaced in him by self-reproaches, by scruples of conscience.”
— Sigmund Freud
Source: The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)
“You did not even ask for 'favourite books', among which I should not have forgotten Milton's Paradise Lost and Heine's Lazarus.”
— Sigmund Freud
Source: Letter to Hugo Heller regarding the 'Ten Good Books' questionnaire (1907)