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...waltzes were good and loud that year, sex was still primarily something to be enjoyed in the Vienna woods rather than to be talked about by learned doctors, and all seemed well with the world. But Vienna's Dr. Sigmund Freud was gloomy: two heretics, Carl Jung and Alfred Adler, had rebelled against the Freudian tenets. In this crisis, six loyal disciples solemnly undertook to uphold the straight gospel, and to each, Freud presented a jewel. That was in 1912, and of the select six, only one survives: Ernest Jones, 74, a spry, Homburg-hatted little Welshman* whom Freud...
...glamor girls talk about between performances on the set. Sample noted during the shooting of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, in which she is starred with Jane Russell: "Jane, who is deeply religious, tried to convert me to her religion [she is actually nondenominational], and I tried to introduce her to Freud. Neither...
Practical Surgery. Paradoxically, although to most U.S. laymen medicine in Vienna means Freud and psychoanalysis, few foreign psychiatrists go there. For one thing, Prophet Freud is less honored at home than abroad. Also, Viennese psychiatrists admit that their U.S. colleagues have outfreuded them. Vienna's attraction to U.S. doctors is in its readily available facilities for studying the practical side of surgery and pathology...
Hypnosis has been a hard-luck kid among medical techniques. A century ago, it was just beginning to win acceptance as a painkiller when ether anesthesia was discovered and hypnosis was discarded. It was making a comeback 60 years ago when Freud hit upon the idea of psychoanalysis, and the experts again lost interest in hypnosis. Now, the third time around, it is once more winning the support of reputable men in both the physical and psychic areas of medicine. To help put hypnosis over the top for good, eleven doctors have assembled the first comprehensive textbook in the field...
Perhaps best of all is V. S. Pritchett's thoroughly lighthearted, thoroughly post-Freud A Story of Don Juan, which tells how Don Juan once visited Quintero, a man whose wife had died on their wedding night. To punish Juan for his sins, Quintero tucks him into the haunted nuptial bed. Next morning Don Juan goes off jaunty as ever. Poor Quintero wonders how his scheme has misfired, spends the next night in the haunted bed himself. The ghost is still there, and her arms are "of ice no more [but] of fire...