Word: minna
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...last sentence of the piece that "Martha, Minna and the man they shared are silent in the grave." This is factually true, as to their deaths, but the use of the word "shared" is a false conclusion drawn from false premises. For your information, my maiden aunt, Minna Bernays, lived with the family of her sister-my married aunt, Martha Freud-as was the custom when maiden ladies had no careers...
According to his anointed biographer, Ernest Jones, Freud was "quite peculiarly monogamous." The truth, says Psychologist John M. Billinsky, 59, contradicts that judgment: during his marriage, Freud conducted a passionate affair with his wife's younger sister, Minna Bernays, a large, imperious and imposing woman who lived with the Freuds for over 40 years. In the current issue of the Andover Newton Quarterly, published by the theological institution outside Boston where Billinsky is a professor, the author adds this humanizing revelation to the history of the founder of modern psychoanalysis...
...which, according to Billinsky, the apostate confided the real reasons he parted company with his mentor. In 1907, in a conversation that Billinsky transcribed, Jung said that he spent some time in the Freuds' Viennese household and soon found out about the liaison between Freud and Minna. "From her," said Jung, "I learned that Freud was in love with her and that their relationship was indeed very intimate." This knowledge upset Jung so much that, without alluding to it directly, he suggested that Freud enter analysis-under Jung. Freud refused...
Billinsky's exposé is risk free. Martha, Minna and the man they shared are silent in the grave...