Indy learns about love in the Perils of Cupid

2/14/2013

In honor of Valentine's Day, we would like to share the moment when Young Indiana Jones learned about the ups and downs of love from famed psychologists, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.

On a visit to Vienna, young Indy and his family stay with the American Ambassador in Austria during a flourishing cultural period in the history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At the Spanish Riding School, Indy meets Princess Sophie, the daughter of the heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. He suffers the pangs of first love when he realizes how impossible it is to be a friend of a princess. He is given some advice on the meaning of love from the leaders of the new science of psychology from its founding masters Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Alfred Adler.

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