If anyone can be called an expert on everyday life, it is Sigmund Freud. Freud built his scientific theory - psychoanalysis - on the basis of the private and intimate life of his own and his patients, all those “trifles” that few people had attached importance to before him. And he subjected all this to scientific analysis and formulated a hypothesis about the existence of the world of the unconscious. Professional psychoanalyst Lydia Flem talks in her book about Freud and his patients, describes the atmosphere that Vienna lived at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, where Freud spent the main years of his life . Visitors to Freud's doctor's office, under the pen of L. Flem, cease to be examples of clinical cases and turn into living people of flesh and blood.