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...there were complications. Freud was the eldest son, but of his father's second marriage; he was thus born uncle to nieces and nephews older than himself -"one of the many paradoxes his young mind had to grapple with." Like other firstborns, he suffered the pain of having to share his mother with "intruders" (younger brothers and sisters). Author Jones has a lot of tricky unraveling to do for this tangled period, and comes out at the end with a neat ball of womb-symbols, erotic fantasies and thwarted infantile greed. Of this last, "traces . . . remained in [Freud...
Britain's Dr. Ernest Jones is just the right man for the job. For years he was one of Freud's closest friends (TIME, Aug. 10), and the Freud family has turned over to him a trove of unpublished letters and confidential information. The present volume is only the first of a projected three, but it is enough to suggest that the completed work will be a masterpiece of contemporary biography...
Psychologist Jones describes his task as "dauntingly stupendous." What makes it so, apart from the mass of research involved, is the special relation between Hero Freud and Biographer Jones. As analyst, Disciple Jones has to analyze the master of analysis. As biographer he must try to be objective about a man toward whom he has every reason to be subjective. Anyone who lacked Jones's imperturbable patience and sense of humor would collapse into hysterical symptoms at the thought of such a business...
Feeling of a Conqueror. Looking into Freud's childhood is like looking at psychoanalysis studying its reflection in a mirror. All the principal Freudian units are, quite "unconsciously," making their first grand march through the streets of Wonderland-with lusty Private Libido (infantile sexuality) beating his big drum, and General Repression sternly rebuking Major Oedipus (for jealousy of father coupled with excessive love of mother). And yet an air of medieval superstition mingles with this up-to-date atmosphere. Sigmund was "born in a caul," i.e., with part of his prenatal envelope still swaddling him, and an old woman...
...Crayfish. Father Jakob Freud was a just and kindly wool merchant, but his principal weakness, woolgathering, kept the growing family poor. In 1859, when Sigmund was three, father Jakob abandoned his son's birthplace, the Moravian town of Freiburg, and went after better business first in Leipzig and then Vienna. Freud so hated this uprooting that he detested Vienna ever after. To travel, to leave Vienna behind, became a lifelong passion. But one of the greatest love-hate paradoxes in Freud's life is that while regularly railing at Vienna, he stuck closely to it. For 47 years...