Brett Kahr, "Freud's Pandemics: Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis" (Confer Books, 2022)
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Do You Think That Froud's Life Was Studied in Such Detail?
Froyd's life has been investigated in so much detail by all my biographical predecessors. So we've really, really taken a big microscope too to freud's biography. And whether freud would have framed those events as tromes, i don't know. I think what always lies at the heart of what freud talks about is those early, ugly, childhood,. infantile in childhood xperiences. As freud wrote even as late as 19 37, just before his death, he said, we must realize that there is always a kernel of truth in everything that we do, even in psychotic delusions.
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