The Interpretaion of Murder Author:Jed Rubenfeld In 1909, Sigmund Freud, accompanied by his then disciple Carl Jung, made his one and only visit to the United States, to deliver a series of luctures on psycho-analysis at Clark University, in Worcester, Massachusetts. The honorary doctoral degree that Clark awarded him ws the first public recognition Freud had ever received for his work. Despit... more »e the great success of this visit, Freud always spoke, in later years, as if some trauma had befallen him in the United Sates. He called Americans "savages" and blamed his sojourn there for physical ailments that afflicted him well before 1909. Freud's biographers have long puzzled over this mystery, speculating whether some nknown event could have led to his otherwise inexplicable reaction.« less