c-span: what did you learn of the sigmund freud? >> i learned during those 20 years while the word was focusing on have been he was really petrified about how he was a fight to survive financially. de. he had very little money. the person in the world needed most easily turned to was his american nephew, edward bernays. he turned to him for advice on how to survive physically and more importantly on how to have the financial resources to support himself and his family. c-span: where was he born? >> vienna. came over on the boat when he was born and spent the next 60 something years in new york. thankfully he retired in cambridge a few blocks from where i live. c-span: of total, i believe, of edward bernays and his wife. >> yes. bound for europe. this was a memorable photo in part because she was the first american woman to have a passport issued in her maiden name. she went for most of her life by doris fleischman, never taking his name. that really created wonderful ways in terms of the feminist movement in america. for edward bern

it is not the tangled web of sexual urges that sigmund freud imagined. it is just a different way of understanding the world. and often yielding superior results. one of the tips i read about is if you have a tough decision and can't make up your mind tell yourself you will decide by a coin flip. then flip the coin but don't go by the coin flip but your emotion to it. are you happy or sad it came their way?

at almost all of the major thinkers, whether it is against 94th segment for what in our era -- sigmund freudin our era, or rousseau or hugh, all of these people had major flaws. you know that david hume, the famous scottish philosopher manufactured a review of his book, praising it to high heaven because nobody else would review it. this is fraud. does anybody hold it against david hume? no. called popper left a whole bunch of his students fighting with each other over how to interpret it. liechtenstein once heard that someone else in his university dared to talk about his position in philosophy so he ran down to the administration and demanded that the man be fired. these guys are sort of near prima donnas, near divas, including rand. they have their personal proclivities. some of them are not so pretty. so again, compared to what? >> host: you have been very patient, thanks for waiting. >> caller: hello. >> guest: hello. >> caller: hello. i just want you to elaborate or talk more about -- i was one if you tell me something about liberty and how that relates to the philosophy of teen. >> gu