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...early age he went in search of "power over men." So, says Jones, does every human being. Like other boys, Freud dreamed first of being a mighty general, switched (at twelve) to dreams of legal and "ministerial" fame. Only at 17, influenced perhaps by the anti-Semitic barriers to Habsburg politics, did he decide that "the ultimate secret of power was not force but understanding," and that understanding, in turn, must begin with the study of the nature of man. Warned by his father's example, he suppressed his natural love of "speculative rumination," and entered (1873) the "exact...
Black-Eyed Martha. Twenty years of work made Freud "a first-class neurologist, a hard worker, a close thinker." But he showed no signs of imaginative genius. This was partly because of his determination to discipline his fanciful mind, but largely because in 1882 he fell madly in love and felt he could not get married until he had built up a solid reputation...
Before he met his bride, Martha Bernays, Dr. Freud seems to have had little interest in women. He channeled all his energy into his work-which is what Dr. Jones means when he describes Freud's young manhood as one of "extensive sublimations resulting from considerable repression." But black-eyed Martha loosed the repressions. In the four years of their engagement, Freud wrote her more than 900 impassioned letters, which Jones is "privileged to have been the only person" to examine...
...Freud refused to let Martha meet her previous boy friends. "Woe to him if he becomes my enemy," he growled of one of them. "I am made of harder stuff than he is . . . I can be ruthless." He ordered her to stop the practices of religion (orthodox Judaism), to "change her fondness for being on good terms with everybody," to realize that henceforth she belonged only to Freud and must invariably take his side. He rebuked her for having gone "aside to pull up your stockings" while they were taking a walk, and refused her permission to ice-skate...
...released a spate of anger and mistrust. She also knew that he was an ambitious man fighting desperately against poverty and putting aside every penny to be able to marry her. His high-strung state at this time is shown by a clinical anecdote. Expecting a visit from Martha, Freud found that when he laid his stethoscope on a patient's heart, he could hear "nothing but the rushing of a railway train...