(Freud
is revered as the father of modern psychology. He was a committed
atheist, and apparently an incestuous adulterer) Evidence
has emerged that suggests Freud had an affair with Minna Bernays, his
sister-in-law, who shared his
apartment at Vienna's Berggasse 19, where Freud lived with his wife
Martha and their six children.
A
hotel ledger discovered by Franz Maciejewski, a German sociologist
and specialist in psychoanalysis, shows that on August 13, 1898,
Freud checked into a Swiss hotel...But when Freud checked into the
Schweizerhaus (Swiss House) in Maloja, he
signed the register "Dr Sigm Freud u frau", meaning "Dr
Sigmund Freud and wife". Minna and Freud spent that night
together in Room 11.
"Freud's
first slip?" The Age.
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/freuds-first-slip/2007/03/01/1172338791947.html>
(25 April, 2007)
So Freud was an adulterer. Whow. Like half the US Senate, and 30-60% of the US married population (Buss & Shackleford). So what do you want to imply? That his atheism led to adultery, or that he entertained atheism to defend his adultery?
ReplyDeleteVery Freudian approach, Thesauros.
Freud's atheism is based on his reception of Auguste Compte's "three stages of mankind". It's a bit of a stretch to think he wrote "Die Zukunft einer Illusion"(1907) only to have legitimation for an adultery 9 years earlier...