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Sigmund Freud on the Cover of Time Magazine

Time Magazine · 27 October 1924

A 1924 Time magazine cover featuring a portrait of Sigmund Freud, showing his public fame during his lifetime.

This magazine cover shows Freud as the subject, reflecting his fame during his own lifetime.

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Cover of TIME, The Weekly News-Magazine, Vol. IV No. 17, October 27, 1924, fifteen cents. A charcoal-style portrait of Sigmund Freud, an older bald man with a moustache and dark suit, fills the central frame, signed in the lower right. Caption reads SIGMUND FREUD.
Sigmund Freud on the cover of Time magazine, 27 October 1924.

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What it is

This is the cover of Time magazine from 27 October 1924. It features a charcoal-style portrait of Sigmund Freud, shown as an older bald man with a moustache, wearing a dark suit. The artist's signature appears in the lower right corner, and the caption below reads "SIGMUND FREUD".

Why it matters

By 1924, Freud's ideas about psychoanalysis had spread widely enough that a major American news magazine put his face on its cover. This shows how famous and controversial his theories about the unconscious mind had become, not just among doctors but with the general public.

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