Word: freude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among his principal works in his last two decades were Civilization and Its Discontents, a rambling, chatty discourse on everything from man's place in the universe to the fear of losing love, and Moses and Monotheism. Freud was convinced that Moses was no Jew, but a highborn Egyptian who chose the Jews (hence "the chosen people") as the instrument for perpetuating Akhnaton's monotheism, which had just been swept out of Egypt in a religious counterrevolution. Freud, who regarded religion as a "universal obsessional neurosis," was at pains to explain the acceptance of Moses...
Flight to Freedom. Long after the Nazis had attained power in Germany, Freud refused to consider moving from Vienna. Not until after the 1938 Anschluss, when Brownshirts clomped into his apartment and Jones, thanks to extraordinary maneuvering, appeared by chartered plane from Prague, did Freud agree to go to England. To arrange the trip it took three months and all of Jones's influence with highly placed Britons, plus an assist from U.S. Ambassador to France William C. Bullitt and possibly a word from Franklin Roosevelt and Mussolini as well. Freud's ailing heart, buoyed by nitroglycerin, stood...
...years before his flight, Freud had undergone two more exceptionally painful operations. But in London, at 82, Freud had so far recovered as to be doing four analyses daily. In February 1939 unmistakable cancer was again found, and this time the surgeons labeled the case "inoperable, incurable...
...Freud hated to take drugs, and had rarely used them throughout his years of pain. Now he consented to take aspirin occasionally. On Sept. 21 he asked his physician, Max Schur, for a sedative: "It is only torture now and it has no longer any sense." Two days later, aged 83, he was dead...
Magic & Death Wishes. Biographer Jones, for all his hero worship, belongs to the warts-and-all school, and notes some strange quirks in Freud's character: ¶ Despite his insistence that he was a scientist first and last, Freud clung stubbornly to Lamarck's idea that acquired traits can be inherited-which to serious scientists now makes no more sense than the notion that the earth is flat. ¶ Throughout his life, Freud dabbled with occultism and telepathy. He narrowly avoided publishing acceptance of some weird, spiritistic rigmarole, but he made it plain in private that he believed...