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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...
When he was 26, Richard Wagner, with his wife Minna and his dog Robber, boarded a small (100-ton) Prussian-owned vessel and set sail from Pillau for London. The stormy passage that followed took more than three weeks instead of the customary eight days, and the superstitious crew angrily blamed Wagner and his wife for their bad luck. From the experience of that voyage Wagner conceived his opera The Flying Dutchman, which was never popular in Wagner's own lifetime, has met with varying luck ever since. Last week, after an absence of nine years, it appeared...