Louis Breger is professor emeritus of psychoanalytic studies at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He has been a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, and he is the founding president of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. He has written a number scholarly articles and books--including the acclaimed biography, Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision , Dostoevsky: The Author as Psychoanalyst (Transaction, 2008) , and A Dream of Undying Fame.