Word: fliess
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...telepathy. He narrowly avoided publishing acceptance of some weird, spiritistic rigmarole, but he made it plain in private that he believed there was a good deal in it. ¶ Freud believed in the magic of numbers. In early life he greatly admired the theory of a close friend, Wilhelm Fliess, that important things happened to men in cycles of 23 and 28 days, kept harking back to this even after he had broken angrily with Fliess. He was obsessed with the numbers 61 and 62, was long convinced that he would die at one of those ages. After he passed...