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This was the turning point into "pure" psychology. In partnership with Dr. Josef Breuer (1842-1925), Freud published the case histories of five victims of hysteria-the most notable of which was the "Case of Anna O." Breuer had discovered that Anna tended to lose her symptoms if she were allowed to talk about them; Anna herself coined the happy phrase "chimney sweeping" to describe such therapy, and thus led the way to the idea of psychological "catharsis...
Object of Horror. Comedy took matters a stage further. Dr. Breuer became so fascinated by Anna's hysteria that Mrs. Breuer grew madly jealous. So Breuer stopped seeing Anna, who promptly flew into "the throes of an hysterical childbirth, the logical termination of a phantom pregnancy that had been invisibly developing in response to Breuer's ministrations...
...Breuer fled "in a cold sweat" of shocked horror. But Colleague Freud remained, his mind suddenly stirred by the idea of a "sexual chemistry" at work in neuroses and of "catharsis" as the answer to it. He installed a couch in his consulting room, stretched his patients upon it, and urged them to sweep their chimneys. Sometimes he hypnotized them, sometimes encouraged them to be frank by asking gentle questions. But one day a patient "reproved him for interrupting her flow of thought," and Freud "took the hint." Another Freudian law, that of "free association" on the patient...
...best collections of modern paintings (new acquisitions include a fascinatingly fearsome Dog by Britain's Francis Bacon); a show of postwar European photography; a specialized exhibit showing the 100-year evolution of the modern chair, from the first bentwood model to the tubular-steel jobs of Marcel Breuer and Le Corbusier to the most recent design, which goes right back to bentwood. If the visitor insists, he can even find that air-conditioned movie in the basement, where old film classics are shown (this week: Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise...
...manage romantic old graveyards"). He denounced many a U.S. public building: the National Gallery was a "death mask of an ancient culture," the Jefferson Memorial "an egg on a pantry shelf in . . . a geometric Sahara," Grant's Tomb a "ponderous, huge monster." With Architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, he turned Harvard into the top school of modern architecture...