Word: freude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seeing Freud and his brother Alexander get off the train in Rome would have suspected that anything of this sort was happening. Freud behaved much like any other tourist. But in no time he was up against yet another father-figure -Michelangelo's famed statue of Moses in the Church of San Pietro in Vincoli. Freud "used to flinch at the angry gaze as if he were one of the disobedient mob . . . 'But later, Freud promoted himself and identified himself with Moses. Thus he was able, writing in 1914 after the refections of Adler, Stekel and Jung...
...Fate. The Jones biography shows again that Freud was essentially a Dessimist about mankind. "I don't rack my brains much about the problem of good and evil," he once wrote, "but on (he whole I have not found much of the good' in people...
What, in the dark recesses of this personality, was the origin of Freud's genius...
...Jones wastes no time on anything so dubious as sublimated sexual energy, although he notes in a well-bred British way: "The more passionate side of married life subsided with him earlier than it does with many men." Neither does the analyst get much help from the periods of Freud's greatest creativity. These are marked by a banal anal factor. His productivity, the great man once wrote probably had much to do with the "enormous improvement" in the activity of his Konrad...
Seeking the wellspring of genius, Analyst Jones goes underground. The search for truth, he believes, was "the deepest and strongest driving force" in Freud's Me. What truth? Essentially the same thing as "the child's desire to know . the meaning of birth and what has brought it about." In Freud's early childhood there must have been a man who knew the secrets. "Well, there was his half brother Philipp [20 years his senior] whom he suspected of being his mother's mate . . ." Jones guesses that this half brother may have given young Sigmund some...