1920s
In November 1923, L. Ron Hubbard encountered United States Naval Commander Joseph C. Thompson, recently returned from Vienna and a study of psychoanalysis under Sigmund Freud. For some months thereafter, Thompson walked the twelve-year-old Ron through an informal course of psychoanalytic theory. Although Ron never embraced psychoanalysis entirely, what amounted to a model of the human mind proved unforgettable.