Article: The Arts: Classical: The stuff dreams are made of Sigmund Freud had next to no interest in the composers of his day. So why is he the subject of a music festival?

"I know your wife. She loved her father and she can only choose and love a man of his sort. Your age, of which you are so much afraid, is precisely what attracts her. You loved your mother, and you look for her in every woman. She was careworn and ailing, and unconsciously you wish your wife to be the same."

It's the sort of advice that any psychotherapist might offer to calm a neurotic patient whose married life has become bogged down in jealousies and sexual dysfunction. Except neither the psychoanalyst nor his patient were just anyone.

For a few hours one August afternoon in 1910, the great psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud met - and analysed - the troubled composer/ conductor Gustav Mahler.

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