Figure 6-5. Dürer, St. Jerome in His Study. (From W. Kurth (Ed.), The Complete Woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer. New York: Dover, 1963)
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As was the case in so many of the instances in which Freud expressed interest in and attraction to religion (Christianity), the circumstances for its expression were here informal and private, rather than formal and public: Freud was indeed a public atheist. Aside from occurring in dreams, these religious revelations occurred in letters—and there often in the “unimportant” things, such as casual references to its being Pente-