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G Lebzeltern

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PubMed1995

[Freud and Fliess at Achensee].

Freud has always emphasized the importance of self-analyzing one's own slips. When Freud met Fliess at lake Achensee he could not remember that Fliess had called his attention to the importance of bi-sexuality in 1897. In answer to it, Freud analyzed himself, and realised that he was going to deprive his best friend Fliess of his convictions. However, Freud was satisfied with the comment that he became more tolerant of other researchers. However, he did not get to the root of the problematic nature of his ambition. Thus, a new Freudian slip was to be expected. Freud had repressed the visit O. Weininger had paid to him with the early manuscript on ¿Sex and Character¿ in 1901. Only precise hints of Fliess helped Freud to overcome his amnesia and became aware of the facts repressed. But even now Freud did not get to the root of the problematic nature of his ambition. He was satisfied with forgetting all private informations of Fliess as soon as possible. In 1924 this resulted in a new Freudian slip (Wittels). Freud could have spared all these slips by digesting his experience at lake Achensee completely (all polemic pamphlets of the year 1906 would not have appeared at least).

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PubMed1984

[Sigmund Freud's ambition and Alfred Adler].

Freud never admitted to himself that he possessed a greater-than-average sense of ambition, which manifested itself in dreams, malachievement and priority problems. A completely new picture of Freud arises from such a perspective. Freud experienced childhood trauma in the form of his relationship with his nephew, John, in whom both an intimate friend and hated enemy were incorporated. This experience left a life-long impression which predetermined the neurotic element in Freud's relationship with men. Freud's own interpretation being that he had been betrayed by Breuer, Fliess, Adler and Jung. That is why the sentencing of his Uncle Joseph to a term of imprisonment had such far-reaching consequences for Freud. A further noteworthy observation is the close connection between ambition and death wishes and also between ambition and guilt feelings. Who, after all, likes to admit to harbouring such feelings? It appeared necessary to investigate the extent to which Freud's excessive ambition influenced his relationships with Breuer, Fliess and Adler. Freud was never prepared to recognize that Adler's contribution consisted of revealing the importance of the natural laws governing those layers of the psyche nearer to the conscious. The picture of the whole person emerges only by a combination of psychoanalysis and individual psychology.

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PubMed1983

[Sigmund Freud and cocaine].

The basic tenet proposed by J. V. Scheidt states that the narcotic drug, cocaine played a role in the development of psychoanalysis which has been underestimated up to the present day. It is a fact that Freud himself took cocaine (in small doses) for about two years, and that he began his dream interpretation approximately ten years later. Scheidt believes that a long, unconscious conflict related to the cocaine-induced states of euphoria (ten years later) suddenly led to the beginnings of dream interpretation. The question to be answered now is: Why did this happen precisely in 1895? The foundations of psychoanalysis had already been laid, the application of the new method to the treatment of nervous disorders (heart complaints, train phobias, etc.) was certainly obvious. During this self-analysis it became necessary, first of all, to come to terms with the self-reproaches-which lay on the surface and were more accessible to consciousness-related to Freud's cocaine period (Fleischl-Marxow becomes addicted to cocaine, the most terrible night ever experienced, death of this friend, Freud's warning came too late). It was only when Freud has come to terms with this phase of his life that the road to the deepest part, the discovery of the Oedipus complex in the fall of 1897, was cleared.

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PubMed1980

[An interesting mistake by S. Freud].

In a letter to his fiancée, Martha, S. Freud mentions the names of three Jewish festivals, but not that of the fourth, the joy-of-the-law, which is reminiscent of his own name. This omission (Freudian slip) leads us deep into Freuds problematic nature: not only to his own personal complex (his attitude toward his name), but also to his penchant to superstition (fear of death and death wishes) as well as to his hate of religion, for which the hate for his father forms the basis.

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