What Freud attempted to do in psychoanalysis, Steiner achieved in anthroposophy from quite the opposite direction. Unlike Freud, who would conquer “neurosis” (a term that smells of formaldehyde and the hospital) by transforming the lower animal urges into higher egoic reflectivity, Steiner sought to expel “nervousness” (the lived experience of a misled life) by reorienting the soul to its divine origin.
