Beth writes >Do you mean what was questionable? Well, one was >his comment about seeing his mother in the shower >with the shower curtain "pulled back like in the theater,"
I'd forgotten about that specific incident (must have repressed the memory :-) ) >(or did he actually refer to that in real life??) Well, there was a *similar* event that Freud claimed had occurred in his early childhood. In a letter recounting his self-analysis to Wilhelm Fliess in 1897 (when he was 41) he wrote that his libido towards his mother was awakened when he was between two and two-and-a-half years, on the occasion of a train journey from Leipzig to Vienna during which "we must have spent the night together and there must have been an opportunity of seeing her naked." Leaving aside the issue of memories from infancy, the twofold "must have" hardly convinces; as biographer Ronald Clark observes, they suggest that the personal foundations on which Freud was to build his Oedipal theory "should be regarded with caution". Seeing the "interview" again, I note another questionable statement, in this case deliberate I'm sure. The first item that Freud lists among his phobias is "thongs"! Allen E. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=11818 or send a blank email to leave-11818-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
