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102. See Freud’s remarks on his visit to Charcot (S. Freud, 1886, S,E., 1, p. 11) and also Hysteria (S. Freud, 1888, S.E., 1, p. 41).
103. Origins (pp. 188, 189). 104. Origins (p. 189). 105 A few months later, in May 1897, Freud quoted in a short letter (Origins, p. 202) a phrase from Don Giovanni; the phrase is from a song by Leporello, in which he humorously lists the many conquests of his master. Freud implied that his intellectual accomplishments, as reflected in his bibliography, were like the list of Don Giovanni’s sexual seductions. Some weeks later, in June (Origins, p. 211), he referred to the Almighty, and then wrote: “…I am in a cocoon, and heaven only knows what sort of creature will emerge from it.” Then came the letters in which he discovered his nanny and her great importance for him. 106. Origins (p. 225). 107. Origins (p. 236). 108. Origins (p. 237, note). 109. Origins (p. 253). 110. Origins (p. 258). 111. Origins (p. 279-280). 112. Origins (p. 286). 113. The Interpretation of Dreams actually came out in late 1899, although its copyright date is 1900; Freud’s reference to this work as the “Egyptian dream book” (e.g., Origins, p. 294) obviously links with the Egyptian images he pored over in his childhood in the Philippson Bible. Curiously, Freud also expressed reservations about his major work in the same language. In 1925, in An Autobiographical Study, Freud describes his disillusionment over an early electrical cure of neuropathology: “[W]hat I had taken for an epitome of exact observations was merely the construction of phantasy. The realization that the work of the greatest name in German neuropathology had no more relation to reality than some ‘Egyptian’ dreambook, such as is sold in cheap book-shops, was painful…” (S. Freud, 1925, S.E., 20, p. 16). With this language, he provided an unconscious expression of doubts about the validity of his own ideas. 114. Origins (p. 314). 115. Origins (p. 318-319). 116. Origins (p. 323). 117. Gillie with Swales (1982, p. 27); Wittels (1924, p. 100). CHAPTER FIVE 1. Krüll (1979) appears to have initiated the scholarly investigation of this question about Freud. 2. Origins (pp. 219-220). 3. S. Freud (1896a, S.E., 3; pp. 191-221; first made public in a lecture of May, 28, 1896); see also S. Freud (1896b, 1896c). 4. See the discussion of this issue in Masson (1984, pp. 195-200). In spite of Masson’s argument that Freud completely abandoned the seduction theory, the 1916, 1924, and 1925 quotes from Freud (pp. 195-198) make it clear to me |