Austrian psychoanalyst Alfred Freiherr von Winter-stein was born on September 25, 1885, in Vienna, where he died on April 28, 1958.

Educated at the famous Theresianische Akademie and the Franz Josefs-Gymnasium, Winterstein obtained his Matura (or baccalaureate) in 1903. He completed his law studies in 1905.

After reading The Interpretation of Dreams (1900a), Winterstein contacted Freud, attended his lectures, and in 1910 became a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. At that time he was writing articles for the Neue Freie Presse, a bourgeois liberal newspaper, and publishing poems in Karl Kraus's Die Fackel. He also wrote plays and was member of the Pen Club. Winterstein submitted his thesis in 1911 and worked for a time under the famous experimental psychologist Wilhelm Wundt at the University of Leipzig. During a visit to Burghölzli, while staying with Eugen Bleuler, he began an...