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after her arrest. Freud’s further associations are especially important for Krüll’s hypothesis. Freud
wrote about the child (himself):
The wardrobe or cupboard was symbol for him of his mother’s inside. So he insisted on looking into this cupboard, and turned for this to his big brother (Philipp), who … had taken his father’s place as the child’s rival…. there was a … suspicion against him—namely that he had in some way introduced the recently born baby into his mother’s inside [Krüll’s emphasis].44 In short, little Freud suspected his half-brother Philipp of having made with his mother the recently born baby! The rival who took away his mother and was responsible for producing new babies was not his father but his stepbrother! In line with this, Jones suggests that in the eyes of young Freud, it would have been natural to pair off the older Jakob with the nanny, and his mother Amalia with Philipp, who were of the same age.45 In a different work, Freud gave his associations to a most interesting dream, which he had when he was in Vienna at the age of about nine. First, the dream: I saw my beloved mother, with a peculiarly peaceful, sleeping expression on her features, being carried into the room by two (or three) people with bird’s beaks and laid upon the bed. [Freud’s emphasis]. I awoke in tears and screaming, and interrupted my parents’ sleep.46 Freud’s associations to the dream were that the image was based on a Picture or pictures (see Figure 2-3) from the Philippson Bible, which we already know he read assiduously, and which he acknowledged as important. Thus, the first association was to a Bible that featured on the title page the name “Philipp-son”—a Bible commonly called by this name. The next association Freud provided was that at the time of the dream he had heard for the first time, from a playmate by the name of Philipp, the vulgar word for “coitus” in German—“vögeln,” which is very much like the word for bird (“vögel”). Jones himself was surprised that Freud did not associate the name of the playmate with his half-brother Philipp.47 Krüll argues that in Freiberg Freud had surprised his mother in sexual intercourse with Philipp, and that this image had appeared to him in a dream, perhaps disguised somewhat by the Egyptian bird- (vögel-) headed figures. Krüll finds an important support for her interpretation in the work of Grinstein.48 Grinstein has carefully examined all the many illustrations in the Philippson Bible to find those that might fit Freud’s description. There are only two possible images, and Grinstein identifies the Biblical texts that these images are paired with. The first text is the part of 2 Samuel containing the story of David and Abner. This section is summarized by Grinstein as presenting “the elements of death and |