Sigmund Freud's Daughter Would Have Been 119 Today And Google Has Marked The Occassion.

[sandyRoe]

I believe she did some pioneering work in the field of child psychology. Would she be better regarded now than her father?

[sandyRoe]

I meant better regarded by the psychiatrists working in that speciality.

[stuey]

The fact that, as her father was wont to do, she was known for sucking on a cigar didn't bode well for a career in child psychology.

[sandyRoe]

A woman sucking cigars? What would Freudian psychoanalysts make of that?

[woofgang]

as Freud himself said "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"

[janbee]

As usual, I forgot to send her a card but then she didn't send one to me on MY birthday !

[stuey]

And Rorschach once suggested that spilled ink is merely a *** mess.

[stuey]

OK, a sanguineous mess.

[Peter Pedant]

That would be Anna Freud,

He also said: the sooner we show that neurosis isnt just a jewish disease, the better.

I mean blimey they were both as mad as hatters werent they ?

My father recalled a party as a child in 1910 when a housewife said: "oh the war and my nerves did this... and my nerves did that."
and the husband - a veteran of the recent war, hissed: " what does a Boerse know about nerves ? " [ Yeah South Africa, 1910 ]

Nerves .... popular subject for the nervous tho' huh ?

[stuey]

And Sigmund's "buddy", Albert, was a little addled wasn't he?

[sandyRoe]

And Jung as a young man wanted Freud to submit to psychoanalysis. He wouldn't hear tell of it. Sort of shows the faith he had in his own invention.

[pixie373]

Freud was a coked-up idiot.

[Peter Pedant]

well that is the Freud family done
and we didnt even get to the arteeste of the clan

[sandyRoe]

Or the lugubrious cook/Liberal MP.
Pixie, wasn't he something of a pioneer in his field? Bound to get a few things wrong. And the coke was to alleviate the terrible pain from his jaw.

[-Talbot-]

well that is the Freud family done


What about Henry?

[pixie373]

I think he got nearly everything wrong. Except what was already common sense.

[stuey]

Hark, I can hear a bell ringing: it must be time for lunch.

[sandyRoe]

I have a book somewhere about the house, it's name escapes me, which interweaves his last day in exile in London with the story of Oedipus. A good read, as I remember.

[sandyRoe]

Too late, Stuey. That bell is signalling last orders in the bar. ☺

[stuey]

It sounds as if it would be quite a complex read, Sandy.

[sandyRoe]

I don't know, Pixie. The thought to kill ones father can be very strong...