Die Traumdeutung
The teenaged Sigmund Freud regarded Hannibal as a "hero": the founder of psychoanalysis portrays an idealized image of the Carthaginian general in his analysis of his "dreams of Rome" in "The Interpretation of Dreams". Freud then associates this phenomenon with the adage "All roads lead to Rome". He writes in "The Interpretation of Dreams": "Hannibal and Rome symbolized for the adolescent that I was the opposition between the tenacity of Judaism and the organizing spirit of the Catholic Church".