Freud delivers the Clark University lectures in September 1909 and receives an honorary degree
In September 1909 Freud delivered lectures at Clark University and took an honorary degree. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
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In September 1909 Freud delivered lectures at Clark University and took an honorary degree. The instrument is that invitation-set. It is his only American journey in the public file used here. Sigmund Freud's documented role is: He spoke in German at Clark at G. Stanley Hall's invitation. Jung and Ferenczi travelled with him. Hall's university hosted.
Context
G. Stanley Hall is the named host. Jung and Ferenczi share the crossing. The IPA is a different 1910 instrument. The setting of Freud delivers the Clark University lectures in September 1909 and receives an honorary degree is the public file around 1909-09-07. Driver edu-digital-learning-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
Why it matters
Improving path from Freud delivers the Clark University lectures in September 1909 and receives an honorary degree on 1909-09-07. A named American university lecture-set is an education path of high weight. The welfare reading on this path is improving.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Five lectures as one invitation, not five Facts. Jung's presence is shared work. Mixed effects of Freud delivers the Clark University lectures in September 1909 and receives an honorary degree are separate paths.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Sigmund Freud
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.56 · verified
He spoke in German at Clark at G. Stanley Hall's invitation. Jung and Ferenczi travelled with him. Hall's university hosted.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactFreud delivers the Clark University lectures in September 1909 and receives an honorary degree
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 7 September 1909 · verified
A named American university lecture-set is an education path of high weight.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.2 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.15 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Clark University — 1909 Conference collection (Freud lectures)Clark University · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Sigmund Freud, Charcot and ParisEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Official locator: Clark University — 1909 Conference collection (Freud lectures) at https://commons.clarku.edu/conference1909/ (opens in a new tab) (Clark University). Independent locator: Britannica — Sigmund Freud, Clark University visit at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sigmund-Freud (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Clark University — 1909 Conference collection (Freud lectures) (https://commons.clarku.edu/conference1909/ (opens in a new tab); Clark University). Independent carrier: Britannica — Sigmund Freud, Clark University visit (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sigmund-Freud (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).
Established: a sourced public record of Freud delivers the Clark University lectures in September 1909 and receives an honorary degree under 1909-09-07 for Sigmund Freud. Established: a sourced public record of Freud delivers the Clark University lectures in September 1909 and receives an honorary degree under 1909-09-07.
Shared responsibility is part of Freud delivers the Clark University lectures in September 1909 and receives an honorary degree. Naming Sigmund Freud does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1909-09-07 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorSigmund Freud
- contributed toFactFreud delivers the Clark University lectures in September 1909 and receives an honorary degree
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). Freud delivers the Clark University lectures in September 1909 and receives an honorary degree. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/fr-clark-1909
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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