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Handlbauer ( 1998 ), Isbister ( 1985 ), Jones ( 1953, 1955, 1957 ), Newton ( 1995 ), Noland ( 1999 ), Roazen ( 1993, 1995, 2001 ), Silverstein ( 2013 ). Sulloway ( 1992 ), Vitz ( 1988 ), and dozens of other books on Freud’s life. Above all, Freud was a sensitive, passionate person who had the capacity for intimate, almost secretive friendships. Most of these deeply emotional relationships came to an unhappy end, and Freud often felt persecuted by his former friends and regarded them as enemies. He seemed to have needed both types of relationship. In Interpretation of Dreams, Freud both explained and predicted this succession of interpersonal ruptures: “My emotional life has always insisted that I should have an intimate friend and hated enemy. I have always been able to provide myself afresh with both”. Until he was well past 50, all these relationship were with men. Interestingly, Freud, he man who seemed to be constantly thinking of sex, had a very infrequent sex life himself. After Anna, his youngest child was born in 1895, Freud not yet 40 years old, had no sexual intercourse for several coitus interruptus, as well as masturbation were unhealthy sexual practices. Because Freud wanted no more children after Anna was born, sexual abstinence was his only alternative ( Berger, 2000, Freud, 1985 ). In addition to balanciong his emotional life between an intimate friend and hated enemy, Freud possessed an outstanding talent as a writer, a gift that helped him became a leading contributor to 20th century thought. He was a master of the German tongue and knew several other languages. Although he never won the coveted Nobel prize for science, he was awarded the Goethe prize for literature I 1930.