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TeAM YYeP G Digitally signed by TeAM YYePG DN: cn=TeAM YYePG, c=US, o=TeAM YYePG, ou=TeAM YYePG, email=yyepg@msn.com Reason: I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document Date: 2005.04.27 18:31:15 +08'00' [...]... criticism and applied psychoanalysis, and gracefully thanked his audience for the opportunity to lecture them and for their genuine interest and understanding Freud’s lecture was quite the happening, and leading figures in American psychology came to Worcester especially to meet him William James, America’s most celebrated and influential psychologist, was present After the lecture, James and Freud... neurotic men that constituted Freud’s followers, Lou captivated Freud and his followers with her intelligence, depth of understanding, and warmth, and soon became part of Freud’s inner circle and one of the first female psychoanalysts 12 Andreas-Salomé, Lou That Lou quickly enchanted Freud and his flock is no surprise Energetic, beautiful, and seductive, she was a lover to half of intellectual turn-of-the-century... with the poet Rainer Marid and later with Rilke, who may have been thirty-three-year-old Lou’s first lover, and other distinguished men of the time In 1887, she married Friedrich Carl Andreas, an orientalist, and remained married to him until her death The marriage was chaste, and Lou, freed from bourgeois restraint and with a vast appetite for brilliant men, took lovers when and where she pleased From... became weak and anemic, and developed even more bizarre symptoms of paralysis, muscle contractures, visual hallucinations, and loss of feeling in her hands and feet No physical basis could be found for these symptoms; Breuer diagnosed her cough and other symptoms as hysterical neurosis 14 Anna O (Case) Anna alternated between two states, or two selves In one, she was aware of her surroundings, and although... emotions are born and primitive passions lurk in the shadows of dreams.” Freud A to Z presents the magic of Sigmund Freud, his life, his theories, his progeny, and his legacy to psychology And it includes his warts and foibles — how his inner demons led him down some erroneous paths Freud’s brilliance was to recognize that our unconscious mind contains a cavern of secret feelings, wishes, and fears His... motives, and that dreams have symbolic meaning People go for talk therapy as commonly as they previously went to confession, and sex is discussed openly in the classroom, on Oprah, and more among one another We tend to forget the world pre-Freud, where neuroses were poorly understood and many suffered needlessly with no useful treatment available; where a general framework in which to understand dreams and. .. on a journey But it also indicated a fear of separation and abandonment, as did his fear of dying (see Family, the Mother: Amalia Freud) Andreas-Salomé, Lou (1861–1937) In 1911, fifty-one-year-old Lou Andreas-Salomé, a notable novelist and essayist, was introduced to Freud at the Weimar Psychoanalytic Congress that she attended with her friend and much younger lover, the Swedish neurologist Poul Bjerre,... where air-raid sirens wail and bombs blast, and furtive souls scurry around in the half-light, frantically searching for a way back home In a world filled with psychological land mines, he thought, any step might trigger a memory that explodes one’s self-esteem, and a small trip in the psychic rubble may lead to badly sprained emotions We belong to our past, we are its slave and pet —Diane Ackerman,... Hausfrau, so dominant and purposive looking.” Thinking Freud would make that association at the end of the story, Allport was flabbergasted when “Freud fixed his kindly therapeutic eyes upon me and said, And was that little boy you?’” Allport was astounded at Freud’s assumption, as he knew nothing of Allport or his past and was quite wrong in his interpretation Freud’s misunderstanding of Allport’s... “inhibitions,” and “defensive” or “conflicted” behavior There are 1,247 entries for books written by or about Sigmund Freud on Amazon.com and 142,000 entries for him on the Internet Other recent figures of great consequence— Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Albert Einstein—have not commanded comparable attention to the details of their existences Look in the index of most any book about human behavior and you might . Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Heller, Sharon. Freud A to Z / Sharon Heller. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-471-46868-1 (Paper) p. cm. 1. Freud, Sigmund, 1856–1939. I. Title. BF109.F74H45. understood and many suffered needlessly with no use- ful treatment available; where a general framework in which to understand dreams and other unconscious processes didn’t exist; and where sexuality. conflict with inner forces of good and evil, love and death, eros and thanatos—the proverbial angel on one shoulder whispering into one ear, “Carrot sticks,” and the devil whispering into the