In his new book (Beltz Publishers), the well-known educational scientist and journalist Micha Brumlik describes how Freud has made his mark on intellectual history: "Analog zu jenen klassischen Bildern vom Menschen, wie sie etwa Platon, der Apostel Paulus oder Descartes schufen, schuf auch Freud ein neues revolutionäres Bild vom Menschen…" (Analogous to the classical images of man as created by Plato, Paul the Apostle, or Descartes, Freud also created a new and revolutionary image of man…). Psychoanalysis and the theory of the unconscious mark Freud as a fore-sighted chronicler of his century. Brumlik asks whether Judaism’s contribution to European culture is not ultimately the founding of psychoanalysis.