Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freud suffer from feelings of guilt when he named his famous daughter Anna after his sister of the same name, who had caused him to "suffer pangs of jealousy" and "he never liked or forgave...
Headlong Course. From then on, Comfort Me with Apples runs a headlong course-Chick's affair with one Mrs. Thicknesse, his efforts to keep Nickie from marrying his sister, and then the full-time job of finding a job for Nickie. Crystal announces a $65 alienation-of-affection suit, but doesn't go through with it because nothing had really happened with Mrs. Thicknesse (later Chick decides that an affair is like Turkish coffee: "The trick is to stop before you reach the grounds"). Poor Chick is a loser even in small things. When he chides a waiter...
Sigmund's constant companion was his nephew John, and (says Jones with unanalytical British understatement) "there are indications that their mutual play was not always entirely innocent." Their lack of innocence extended to play with John's sister Pauline, and Freud (as he told later) had fantasies of her being raped by both John and himself. Outstanding in his early relationships was his attitude toward a father old enough to be his grandfather. By putting him on a pedestal of eld and aloofness, and absolving him of "blame" for his mother's pregnancies, little Sigmund...
...then the fashion in polite strata of most European society to lock sex in a darkened bedroom and pretend that otherwise (except for haut-monde libertines and the licentious "lower classes") it did not exist. For whatever inner need, the adolescent Freud accepted this viewpoint, once even warned his sister Anna off Balzac and Dumas...
...irregularity of his bowels, or, as he called them, his Konrad). He worked prodigiously for nine months of the year, received patients from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., with only an hour out for lunch, took little longer over dinner with his family (wife, three sons, three daughters and sister-in-law Minna Bernays*) before burying himself in the task of assembling data and writing down his theories. He regularly worked until...