Chapter Three. Young Manhood and Early Maturity: 1882-1900 57

Engagement Letters: Easter, Pentecost, and Other Christian Themes, 57
The Fliess “Roman” Letters: 1887-1902, 69
The Desire for Baptism: Velikovsky’s Thesis and Freud’s Dreams, 80
C. F. Meyer: Poems and Novels, 97
Conclusion, 100


Chapter Four. Freud and the Devil: Literature and Cocaine 101

Freud’s Pact: Part One, 101
His Nanny and the Devil, 102
Freud and Literature, 103
Flaubert’s
The Temptation of St. Anthony, 105
Goethe’s
Faust, 106
Cocaine and the Devil, 110
Thornton’s Cocaine Thesis, 113
Milton’s
Paradise Lost, 115
Mozart’s
Don Giovanni, 117
Victor Hugo’s
Notre Dame de Paris, 119
The Interpretation of Dreams: Rome, Malleus Maleficarum,
       Witchcraft, and Related Themes, 123
Conclusion, 128


Chapter Five. Freud and the Devil: Sexual Seduction and Splitting 129

Was Freud Sexually Seduced as a Child?, 129
Freud’s Personality: Splitting, 141
Freud’s Personality: Borderline Personality Disorder and the Devil, 145
Freud’s Personality: Splitting and Object Relations Theory, 147
Freud’s Pact: Part Two, 149
Freud and the Occult, 157
Freud and the Anti-Christ, 158
Jesus as the Anti-Oedipus, 166
Conclusion, 170


Chapter Six. The Mature and Final Years: 1900-1939 172

The Freud-Pfister Letters, 172
The Freud-Jung Letters: 1906-1914, 178
The Freud-Abraham Correspondence, 181



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