Word: freude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...OFFER FREUD 25,000 DOLLARS OR ANYTHING HE NAME COME CHICAGO PSYCHOANALYZE LEOPOLD AND LOEB. For the same purpose, Hearst also offered Freud "any sum he cared to name" and also "was prepared to charter a special liner so that Freud could travel quite undisturbed by other company." Freud's refusals were chilling...
Aside from lack of money, the deprivation that most troubled Freud in postwar Vienna involved cigars. Imported ones were unobtainable in near-bankrupt Austria, so visiting analysts smuggled them in. Though he knew that his jaw cancer might have been caused by smoking, Freud would not quit on that account. With his shrunken tissues and "the monster" interfering, he sometimes had to pry his mouth open with a clothespin to get the cigar in. Even so, he enjoyed up to four a day. At one time, when he had heart trouble marked by anginal pain, he quit smoking and boasted...
Breaking Ranks. As Freud's fame grew and his basic ideas came to be ever more widely accepted, he collected some minor honors, but time and again influential friends failed to get him the Nobel Prize, and he soon urged them to stop chasing "the Nobel chimera." He remained fanatically convinced that he had discovered absolute truths, and excoriated the defectors from his ranks...
...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 face to him. And when Adler died, the unforgiving Freud so far forgot his own Jewishness as to remark...
...Freud made few contributions in later life to the actual practice of psychoanalysis or its adaptation in more conventional psychiatric treatment. While he wrote abundantly, much of his output dealt with analytic trivia, and the rest was in sweeping, philosophic terms-despite his prejudice against "philosophical convolutions...