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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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Sigmund and Martyr's Pandemicsa

Sebastian: Sigmund and martyr lost their daughter sophie freud halberstadt in early 19 20. She succumbed to the spanish flue, and she died very suddenly. And as soon as he recovered from that, he was then diagnosed with his own maxilo facial cancer which burdened him for 16 years. So, so freud had nothing but pandemicsa his lifetime. The fact that he could invent depth psychology, psychoanalysis, er, and promote it, expand it, publicize it internationalize is a real tribute to his creativity,. sebastian says.

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