On 7 August 2009 Bob Wildblood wrote:
>Actually, historically when a traveler stayed at an inn it was
>likely that he (women didn't travel and stay in inns)
>would have to share a bed with up to 7 others.
I don't think 1900 counts under "historically", but an intriguing episode of
(at least) room-sharing at an inn occurred in the summer of that year when
Freud went on holiday with his sister-in-law Minna:
"A yellowing page of the
leather-bound ledger shows that they occupied Room 11. Freud signed the book,
in his distinctive Germanic scrawl, 'Dr Sigm Freud u frau,'
abbreviated German for 'Dr. Sigmund Freud and wife'."
http://tinyurl.com/m86ebx
Zvi Lothane argues the episode could have been innocent:
"...the fact is that on August 13, 1898 the couple
were registered in Freud's hand to spend the night in a double room in a Swiss
hotel. Some have reached a verdict beyond reasonable doubt: they had sex that
night. But there were no witnesses, and the two cannot take the stand. There
was no smoking gun. It is this juror's opinion that even highly probable does
not mean proven."
http://tinyurl.com/n6dzgh
Regardless of what happened that night, the really important part of the story
is mentioned in passing in the New York Times account:
"In a 1982 journal article, [Peter Swales] argued that Freud's story of a young
man's episode of forgetfulness in his? 1901
book, "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life," was actually thinly
disguised autobiography, exposing Freud's own alarm over an inconvenient
pregnancy."
?
This goes back to a superb piece of research reported by Swales in "The New
American Review" in 1982. His article relates to a major item in "The
Psychopathology of Everyday Life" (1901), the "aliquis" analysis. Swales
demonstrated the high probability that the "young acquaintance" with whom Freud
purportedly engaged in a lengthy conversation, during which (by a brilliant
series of deductions from associations of the "acquaintance") he discovered the
source of the acquaintance's anxiety, was actually Freud himself. This would
mean that the supposed story with detailed dialogue was invented to provide
'evidence' for his theory of slips of the tongue.
Swales'
contention is made even more plausible by the fact that the supposed
interlocutor in Freud's 1999 "Screen Memories" paper was certainly Freud
himself. This was discovered by a Freud follower a long time ago, as
Freud mentioned autobiographical details in The Interpretation of
Dreams (1900) that gave him away. (In later editions of the dream book
Freud had removed the passages in question to try to hide the subterfuge.)
More recently Swales has produced an equally brilliant piece of research
demonstrating to a very high probability that another of the major analyses in
the "Psychopathology" book (the "Signorelli" analysis), an example of
forgetting a name, was fraudulent.
Allen
Esterson
Former
lecturer, Science Department
Southwark College, London
http://www.esterson.org
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