Figure 4-3. Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Fliess in 1890. (Mary Evans/Sigmund Freud Copyrights)


won’t be worth a fart.”92 Here again the theme of final judgment can be seen. With respect to this work, Walter Kaufmann writes: “The Xenien who revere Satan, ‘our sire and singer,’ were polemical verses written by Goethe and Schiller.”93

     Finally, for the chapter on symptom formation, Freud proposed a line from the Aeneid: “Flectere si nequeo superos Acheronta movebo” (“If I


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