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Frau Freud By Carol Ann Duffy Ladies, for argument’s sake, let us saythat I’ve

seen my fair share of ding-a-ling, member and jock,of todger and nudger and percy and cock, of tackle,of three-for-a-bob, of willy and winky; in fact,you could say, I’m as au fait with Hunt-the-Salamias Ms. M. Lewinsky – equally sick up to herewith the beef bayonet, the pork sword, the saveloy,love-muscle, night-crawler, dong, the dick, prick,dipstick and wick, the rammer, the slammer, the rupert,the shlong. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve no axe to grindwith the snake in the trousers, the wife’s best friend,the weapon, the python – I suppose what I mean is,ladies, dear ladies, the average penis – not pretty…the squint of its envious solitary eye…one’s feeling ofpity…

Birth: Freiberg, MoraviaLocation of death: London, EnglandCause of death: EuthanasiaGender: MaleReligion: AtheistSexual orientation: Straight

MAIN FACTS

The “father” of psychoanalysis

THE THERAPY COUCH

CONTROVERSIAL

Claimed infants had a sex drive

Little boys Fathers = Rivals

Freud’s Psychosexual Stages

STAGE

Oral (0-18 months)

Anal (18-36 months)

Phallic (3-6 years)

Latency (6 to puberty)

Genital (puberty on)

FOCUS

Pleasure centers on the mouth-sucking, chewing, biting

Pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; coping with demands for control

Pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestuous sexual feelings

Dormant sexual feeling

Maturation of sexual interest

PERSONALITY

MARTHA BERNAYS

MARTHA BERNAYS

• Freud ended his commitment to laboratory science when he met the love of his life, Martha Bernays.

• Six months after he met Martha he sacrificed his scientific ambitions to become a doctor – for Martha of course.

FREUD "My precious, most beloved girl, I knew it was only after you had gone that I would realize the full extent of my happiness… I still cannot grasp it, and if that… sweet little picture were not lying in front of me, I would think it was all a beguiling dream."

MARTHA "Sigi, My Sigi. Today for the first time I call you by your name… My darling, I am happy, yes happy as I have never been in my long life."

PARENTHOOD

• Freud thrived in an atmosphere of solidity

• As his research progressed, the passion in his marriage faded

Sophie Freud “Every Sunday, the family assembled in the Freud household

including myself. He would come out at 12 o'clock, and his physical contact was you did like this, you put your two fingers and you squeezed the child's cheeks, which was a sign of affection. You did not hug or anything like that, you did this.“

• Martha became the kind of wife Freud had hoped for

• Domestic duties had replaced the passion Freud and Martha had expressed for each other

Bergmann“We have wonderful courting letters before marriage. After marriage we only get laundry letters. It's all practical. We don't have a single love letter after marriage.”

LIFESTYLE

Man of regular habits• Mustache/Beard trimmed daily bi his

barber• Strolled the boulevard each day• Played cards with the same group of

friends every Saturday night• Highly conscious of his image• Loved a good cigar; smoked >20 a

day

LIFESTYLE

• In the end of August, 1899, Freud finished his book in a farmhouse in Berchtesgaden high in the German Alps

LIFESTYLE

• After publishing his book he became very well known

• Dr. Freud supposedly found in sex the meaning of life.

”I'm not famous," Freud mused. "I'm notorious."

LIFESTYLE

• In 1933, the Nazi’s came to power and burned his books alongside those of Thomas Mann, Berlolt Brecht and Albert Einstein.

Freud died in London in 1939 from mouth cancer. His mother died just 9 years before his own death in 1930,

he did not attend her funeral. His wife died in 1951 in London.

By the time of his death, Freud’s ideas had become part of the fabric of the

twentieth century life.

“Ms. M. Lewinsky”

• Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom then US President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an “improper relationship” while Lewinsky worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996.

• The affair and its repercussions, especially the impeachment of Bill Clinton, became known as the Lewinsky scandal.

SATYA PICCIONI-GRENNA

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