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Brett Kahr, "Freud's Pandemics: Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis" (Confer Books, 2022)

New Books in Psychoanalysis

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What Did Freud's Neurotic Symptoms Help?

Freud was a human being with his vulnerabilities. And like all of us, yhad neurotic symptoms. When froyd couldn't speak because of the surgeries done on his mouth and his jaw, he could still write. He could always write. That was his way of curing himself, getting through the pandemic,. taking ownership of his s his creativity, his wish to craft a legacy.

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