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Masson readily admits that others have had this idea before him. In the early 1930s Sandor Ferenczi, a disciple of Freud's and an influential psychoanalyst, confessed his growing doubts about his profession to his diary, which has not yet been published in English. Masson quotes generously from this document, showing a poignant portrait of a man torn between increasingly rigid doctrine and what he saw with his senses: "We greet the patient in a friendly manner, make sure the transference will take, and while the patient lies there in misery, we sit comfortably in our armchair, quietly smoking...
ALFRED is the perfect observer: wholly rootless, he is the progeny of parents who used him only to test their Freud and Ferenczi. Patsy's task is enormous. Alfred's college sojourns into any form of activism were doomed when he realized that above every government functionary there was another, that society had become a machine which continues to blur personal motivations until it runs down. Patsy, for all her fatuous cheerleading and self-enclosed attitudes, wakens Alfred out of his emotional lethargy. But just when he acquiesces to her post-marriage plans, she falls victim to an assassin...
...these eventful years, the International Psycho-Analytical Association was formed; and the Association and its Journal occupied much of the energy of Freud and his "Committee." The workings and interrivalries of this Committee, which was composed of such psycho-analytic pioneers as Otto Rank, Karl Abraham, Max Eitingon, Sandor Ferenczi, Hanns Sachs, and Jones himself, take up a large part of the book. This is for the most part, space well-spent, since these men were instrumental in the formation of the presently-used theories of psycho-analysis...
...prosthesis, an artificial palate, which could never be made to fit comfortably, and which distorted his speech and face. His physical pain was compounded in this period by personal tragedies: the deaths of his daughter Sophie, his grandson, his mother, and the defection of his close friends, Rank and Ferenczi, both of whom subsequently died insane. These were "deep, narcissistic losses" to Freud...
...Carl Gustav Jung, had left him long before, along with Wilhelm Stekel. In the 19203 they were followed by Otto Rank (who proved to be suffering from manic-depressive psychosis that had gone unsuspected in the inner circle of analysts), by Wilhelm Reich, and finally by the fawning Ferenczi, whose lifelong emotional troubles were compounded at the end by pernicious anemia and organic brain damage. Through it all, Freud held firmly to the line he had laid down: "We have only one aim and one loyalty-to psychoanalysis." When Stekel big-heartedly attempted a late reconciliation, Freud turned a stony...