Figure 2-4. Franz Brentano. (Mary Evans/Sigmund Freud Copyrights)
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that the connection between them was of minimal significance. Here again, there are serious reasons to disagree with Jones.
First, Freud was far from being a mere casual attender of Brentano’s public lectures. Merlan has discovered, in the University of Vienna archives, that Freud enrolled in five different philosophy courses taught by Brentano.94 These courses were the only philosophy courses that Freud took in his eight semesters of medical study; they were, indeed, the only nonmedical courses that Freud ever took as a university student. These courses were all free electives. One was on Aristotle; one was on logic; and the other three had the rather general title of “Readings of Philosophic Writings.”95 It is virtually certain that courses such as the last three would have contained much of Brentano’s own thought. Brentano’s