The Father of Psy-Ops: Sigmund Fraud

[Hervé]

Sigmund Fraud? New bio traces Freud's journey from one crackpot idea to the next (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454745/sigmund-freud-fake-charlatan-liar)

Kyle Smith National Review (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454745/sigmund-freud-fake-charlatan-liar)
Tue, 19 Dec 2017 19:20 UTC


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A new biography demolishes whatever was left of the Viennese con man's reputation.

Writing to his close friend and collaborator Wilhelm Fliess in 1890, Sigmund Freud explained that he couldn't pay a visit because, in a struggling psychiatric practice that suckered rich society women in Vienna,
"My most important client is just now going through a kind of nervous crisis and might get well in my absence."
No, Freud wasn't being ironic: He depended on grandes dames to stay in business. On another occasion, referring to a cartoon in which a yawning lion grumbles, "Twelve o'clock and no negroes," he wrote, "The worries begin again whether some negroes will turn up at the right time to still the lion's appetite." That appetite, as Frederick Crews makes clear in his exhaustive, reputation-pulverizing book Freud: The Making of an Illusion, was from an early age for fame and riches, which Freud relentlessly pursued by championing one faddish quack remedy after another, backing away when justified criticism made his position untenable, covering his tracks with misleading or even completely false claims about what he'd been up to, then bustling on to the next gold mine.

In 1884, for instance, in the giddy throes of a fondness for cocaine that Freud would indulge on and off for some 15 years, he had the marvelous idea of treating a brilliant young scientist, Ernst Fleischl von Marxow, for a mild morphine addiction (resulting from surgery) by putting the patient on cocaine. Instead, Fleischl became hugely addicted to both morphine and cocaine - sleepless nights, strung-out dozy days - and wasted away into a scarecrow while Freud, writing about the patient under a pseudonym, bragged in a paper about the tremendous success of his experiment.

Meanwhile, a colleague of Freud was discovering an actual useful application of cocaine, as a topical anesthetic that opened the door to new kinds of surgery (such as on the eye). This was a truly revolutionary breakthrough and Freud had nothing to do with it. Later he would suggest that he had been on the brink of making the discovery but had been distracted by his fiancée, Martha.

The case for Freud's misogyny is ludicrously easy to make. After his cocaine frenzy, Freud headed to Paris to study with Jean-Martin Charcot, who oversaw an insane asylum full of women upon whom he freely experimented and operated under the assumption that they were suffering from "hysteria," an almost exclusively feminine phenomenon in which sex organs supposedly caused otherwise unexplained behavior and bodily disorders.

Freud would carry the concept of hysteria to breathtaking extremes in his private practice: Leg pain? Morphine addiction? Asthma? Freud treated patients with these disorders under the working theory that they were suffering from hysteria, which among his mostly female clientele morphed into an assumption that the origin story of all neurosis was a childhood sexual trauma, which he called the "seduction theory" and which Crews relabels "molestation theory," since a small child who has suffered a sexual assault is not actually a seducer.

If the patient couldn't remember any childhood sexual trauma, Freud would "reconstruct" it by coaching her to devise one. Despite claiming in a typically grandiose but evidence-free 1896 lecture that his psychoanalysis had helped unveil and repair childhood sexual trauma in 18 patients - the speech was so devoid of clinical standards that a senior scientist, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, said, "It sounds like a scientific fairy tale" - Freud later revealed in a letter to Fliess that he hadn't cured even one person.

In one of the many horror stories Crews documents at length, Fliess, with Freud's eager encouragement, nearly killed a patient whose symptoms suggest she was a hemophiliac who had an ovarian cyst by operating on her nose and removing a chunk of bone, on the crackpot theory he called "nasal reflex neurosis" that the genital-based hysteria natural to women was traceable to cartilage in the nose. As the suffering woman, Emma Eckstein, nearly bled to death while Freud bungled her recovery, he blanched and nearly vomited, regaining his poise only with the aid of a glass of brandy. "So, this is the strong sex?" asked Eckstein. Freud continued to insist that "she bled out of longing" (emphasis his) and when a (female) surgeon noticed Eckstein had an abscess treatable by a single incision, she recalled that Freud "asked me with biting scorn whether I believed that hysterical pain could be cured by the knife." Later Freud observed that Eckstein for some reason reacted badly to being called unattractive after half her face had been caved in by the surgery.

Freud's Studies in Hysteria, in which he played a heroic mind-detective who dug up the patient's hidden actual troubles, simply adapted the fad for Sherlock Holmes stories (of which he was a fan) into a medical realm, adding a dollop of erotic titillation dressed up in clinical detachment. "The principal point is that I should guess the secret and tell it to the patient straight out," he wrote. Diagnosis first, then make the facts fit. When they didn't, Freud felt no compunction about using the techniques of fiction writing to play up his own prowess. As Crews shows, the idea of therapeutically talking through problems didn't originate with Freud, and though psychoanalytic theory has little to no value, what Freud brought to it was mainly borrowed from Fliess - ideas about sexual latency, bisexuality, repression, and the sublimation of sexual desire. A huge slice of Freud's work is simply plagiarism.

Today Freud barely exists in scientific literature, which has rejected his dodgy claims and outlandish boasts. In his more honest moments, he admitted his work did little to advance the cause of his supposed métier.
"I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker," he wrote Fliess.

"I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador - an adventurer, if you want it translated - with all the curiosity, daring and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort."
If Sigmund Freud had a genius for anything, it was for chutzpah. That, and public relations.

Related:
Freud was a fraud! (https://www.sott.net/article/371156-Freud-was-a-fraud)

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That's the guy Tavistock hired (http://www.yandex.com/clck/jsredir?bu=uniq1513868441811285361&from=www.yandex.com%3Bsearch%2F%3Bweb%3B%3B&text=&etext=1642.1ryyuHooFUY2AC94kthzWauV5vShC1kxZkSwYKUx_TLr-fJ9VtBtLak1_Iv5dCII.4133237a6828e05585e749a7f1fb1f6ad4ffd398&uuid=&state=PEtFfuTeVD5kpHnK9lio9dp88zwjJi-A9wwjDIux7f8Zuv0g6oZ30w,,&&cst=AiuY0DBWFJ5Hyx_fyvalFHmeF5yUXADJDuau-F11TiBSkoa50CEPULqId4zgJ5oqoOeC7yNm2WKoL5dQhlZwaRttA-v0up_yLJttQiVUDyl2pooejoGOW-RMah5hLCpKRBEuFL2AxuL6p2xH4hN1OLQizH3E_YDqOET67o9E1wxyLQy4X7IQ0RbRMnacy4p5GuYqeL0HrXTPEG8LO6nXMlUPwV 9HRWEWgWYzKKLlD3Xu1-d7iD4E9nVRAhqlAe_ZeZSOZxKeK03PhBkXOZZaBg,,&data=UlNrNmk5WktYejR0eWJFYk1LdmtxbE9teVlpSndwUFJjcy1Mdml0blVVcmcyY19wUGpaWkpqbldsaFFEVFJFd1RmdnRzOHR jdkhLN09zOE53bzItd1B2bnlxU0ZiMC1OczNGSXlyc19fVmlvcFptWFM5T1VhcDdOeVNqOXVyZkx5d2paUFBiWG1pQmxjYk9Dd2x sNDdpNUpzX3g0Z01tSjM4UVJXbGZSNnd3aUNaVGt4R1B3eWRSa1czckVGRGJy&sign=94c83084778e4bc51dcca4982c79ee75&keyno=0&b64e=2&ref=orjY4mGPRjlSKyJlbRuxUnU39LXnsQVOU9hOXlFVqHIcnFhjFh7po0Y66b1qsEz-TDnXFqllwRFJ3o7IzEbWOw,,&l10n=en&cts=1513869756681&mc=3)...


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Tavistock_and_Freud_statue_-_cropped.jpg
The Sigmund Freud memorial in Hampstead, North London (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Sigmund_Freud,_Hampstead), by Oscar Nemon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Nemon). The statue is located near to where Sigmund and Anna Freud lived, now the Freud Museum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freud_Museum). The building behind the statue is the Tavistock Clinic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavistock_Clinic), a major psychological health care institution.

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The basis of the project of the Tavistock Institute was explained by Round Tabler, Lord Bertrand Russell, is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege and his protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein, and is widely held to be one of the twentieth century's premier logicians. Russell offered a revealing glimpse into Frankfurt School’s mass social engineering efforts, in his 1951 book, The Impact of Science on Society:
I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called "education." Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part.... It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.

…Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.[2] (http://www.conspiracyschool.com/blog/holiness-sin-freud-frankfurt-school-and-kabbalah#_edn2)
A successor organization, the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, was then founded in 1946 under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation when it separated from the Tavistock Clinic. According to John Coleman, a former British Intelligence agent, it was Tavistock-designed methods that got the US into World War II and which, under the guidance of Dr. Kurt Lewin, established the OSS. Tavistock became known as the focal point in Britain for psychoanalysis and the psychodynamic theories of Sigmund Freud and his followers.
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And, from here (http://www.whale.to/b/tavistock_q.html) (<---):
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According to some reputable researchers, Sigmund Freud was Tavistock's first director, followed by his daughter, who apparently still runs the facility. It was used to program the postwar leaders of Germany's government, churches, schools, corporations, etc., from among the POWs who were easy to manipulate.
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[Cardillac]

There's a huge difference between psychiatry and psychology; psychologists (if I've understood it correctly) are not liscened to prescribe pharmaceuticals; psychiatrists are; it's their duty (thanks Big Pharma!)-

everyone (like 3) whom I've ever known who were in psychiatric treatment and therefore were prescribed psychotropic drugs (specialty of psychiatrists) deteriorated rapidly and they never were same again- they never improved- just continually deteriorated-

everyone I knew (like 2) who chose help from a psychologist improved very rapidly-

anyone who choses help from a psychiatrist as opposed to a psychologist is already 'insane' due to complete ignorance of how their repressive/bewildering condition may be solved without any side affects of pharmaceuticals (and paying less money)-

be well all-

Larry

[Cardillac]

and speaking of Sigmund Fraud: if one doesn't yet know his son-in-law was Edward Bernays, the "Father of Marketing": how to get collective opinion to think as a singular entity, "sheeple, in not only how to get people to buy mercantile products but also how to get people to buy/accept political agendas (same as commodities)-

Larry

[Satori]

and speaking of Sigmund Fraud: if one doesn't yet know his son-in-law was Edward Bernays, the "Father of Marketing": how to get collective opinion to think as a singular entity, "sheeple, in not only how to get people to buy mercantile products but also how to get people to buy/accept political agendas (same as commodities)-

Larry

If I may, Edward L. Bernays, author of the book Propaganda (circa 1928) and founder of the Council on Public Relations, was Freud's nephew. Bernays is a very interesting study on the use of mind control from the commercial marketing standpoint. Madison Avenue stuff. But these techniques were later carried forward into military and other applications.

[Cardillac]

@Satori

I guess it doesn't really matter if Bernays was "Fraud"s nephew or son-in-law- both were incredibly evil people whose malevolent agendas continue to this day-

be well-

Larry

[Satori]

@Satori

I guess it doesn't really matter if Bernays was "Fraud"s nephew or son-in-law- both were incredibly evil people whose malevolent agendas continue to this day-

be well-

Larry

I agree completely.

[Mark]

Sounds like Freud is getting his belated comeuppance, much as Jung recently did (http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/248785/sabina-spielrein-carl-jung) as well.

[happyuk]

And don't get me started on Freud's rascal grandson Clement Freud (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Freud#Child_sexual_abuse_allegations).

For me it was Fritz Perls who had the courage and tenacity to blow away the Freudian crap, eliminating at a stroke the months/years/decades of lying on a couch (while facing away from the therapist) for no discernible benefit.

As Perls put it, the goal of therapy is to "change paper people into real people"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkqXWbRiLgo

[Wind]

Sounds like Freud is getting his belated comeuppance, much as Jung recently did (http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/248785/sabina-spielrein-carl-jung) as well.

Certainly disconcerting if true. Jung's theories about dreams, the mind and the collective unconscious were and are extremely valuable. I don't know what to think about him based on that article, but I always thought that Jung never got the recognition which he deserved, instead Freud did. He forgot the spiritual component from psychology, instead he just focused on sexuality. Even if Jung was a faulty human being who made some terrible choices, it shouldn't discredit the very important work.

[Mark]

I would agree, Wind. Because there will always be, this:


I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, “My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That is the most essential thing of all. You see, we must make a dogma of it, an unshakable bulwark” … In some astonishment I asked him, “A bulwark-against what?” To which he replied, “Against the black tide of mud”—and here he hesitated for a moment, then added—“of occultism.” ~ Karl Gustav Jung

Sorry for digressing here a bit, Hervé!

:focus:

[bluestflame]

I would agree, Wind. Because there will always be, this:


I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, “My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That is the most essential thing of all. You see, we must make a dogma of it, an unshakable bulwark” … In some astonishment I asked him, “A bulwark-against what?” To which he replied, “Against the black tide of mud”—and here he hesitated for a moment, then added—“of occultism.” ~ Karl Gustav Jung

Sorry for digressing here a bit, Hervé!

:focus:

" sometimes we must go back before going forward"

stronger, renewed with clarity

[Cardillac]

everyone I've ever known who has ever gone through psychotherapy (in the hands of a psychiatrist) and has been prescribed drugs by the psychiatrist has continuously DETERIORATED and not become better- without exception-

Larry

[happyuk]

everyone I've ever known who has ever gone through psychotherapy (in the hands of a psychiatrist) and has been prescribed drugs by the psychiatrist has continuously DETERIORATED and not become better- without exception-

Larry

That is such a good point.

At least with the Freudian analysts, the worst that happens is the patient "improves" (ie stays the same) while making the analyst progressively richer.

[meat suit]

the excellent film by Adam Curtis comes to mind immediately browsing this thread, the link between freuds ideas and the implementation by Edward L. Bernays is shown well.. I havent watched this in years but I remember bernays got woman to take up smoking to make them feel empowerd.. and really.. to double the market for cigarettes..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

[Joe from the Carolinas]

Freud not only had a cocaine problem. He also smoked several cigars a day, leading to a serious head cancer problem that required him to change a jaw prosthesis. So much for the unconscious ;)

[Justplain]

I know of at least two people who went to a psychiatrist and didnt take drugs. One of the patients refused drugs and the other doctor just wanted to use talk therapy. My uncle was a psychiatrist who was blackballed for determining that half the schizophrenic patients he had were cured via talk therapy around phobias. So not all psychiatrists are pill pushers, though perhaps most are.

When I was enrolled in psych 101 in university, the prof acknowledged that most/all of Freud's theory had been disproved (this is 40 years ago) but that the scientific community acknowledged freud as the founder of the science of psychology. So despite his tremendous faults, some of his work benefited mankind, if only as an unintended consequence.

[Iloveyou]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O6MnK99eWac/UQlaVNJdeeI/AAAAAAAACjU/F_8LXD8JVPk/s1600/url-2.jpeg

Sigmund Freud. He was the child of his time with all its restrictions: Habsburg monarchy, pre-WW1, pre WW2, Jewish-bourgeois, androcentric, prudish. He was born into a moralistic and puritanical society, at the same time full of hypocrisy, black pedagogy still in full swing. I think you cannot judge him without taking his social/cultural background into consideration.

He was a pioneer. Maybe he got a lot of things wrong, he gave in to the social pressure and lost his way, but with his work he opened a can of worms - that‘s what pioneers do - to verify/falsify, refine and develop his theories, to sort things out was the task of his students/successors - and they did a great job, thinking of Jung and Reich. Before Freud there was only materialism and magic/occultism on the other side. Sure, most concepts like Oedipus complex, penis envy and most of all the theory of death drive (death instinct) can be discarded easily, meanwhile. Freud failed in many respects, but he was no fraud. He was genuine, but trapped inside his own and his social environment‘s errors and limitations.

The sinister machinations of an Edward Bernays or later a Clement Freud was not his responsibility, neither the fact that after his death he has been turned into just another idol, for a while and had to disappoint, of course. He was an extremely unhappy and desperate man - very well aware of his own failure. He suffered from a massive, intraoral cancer for his last 16 years (subjected to 30 operative procedures) and had to flee the country when the Nazis took over in 1938. Look at his expression: depression and resignation. He was no hero. He was celebrated, put on a throne as well as opposed and condemned vigorously. Doesn‘t that tell more about the irrational attitude of his disciples and opponents than about him?

You see, I‘m a bit passionate about Freud. Maybe because I come from the same country/city as he did and have delved deep into its ambience, its history. Seldom I‘ve regretted more not having mastered the English language more eloquently, so I hope I‘m not misunderstood too badly. In that case - never mind. Merry Christmas to all of you.

[delfine]

I mean look at his face. Is that the face of someone you would trust with your traumas and sensitivities? To me he looks like a very cruel, obdurate and egotistical person.

[Cardillac]

@Joe

"Freud not only had a cocaine problem. He also smoked several cigars a day, leading to a serious head cancer problem that required him to change a jaw prosthesis"

do you have some documentation for this?- would interest me greatly- please inform-

but I hardly think a jaw prothesis was available back then (it's available now- a friend of mine went through this 5 yrs. ago thanks to the side effects of radiation treatment- another subject)-

be well-

Larry

[shaberon]

I think you cannot judge him without taking his social/cultural background into consideration.


That's how I usually understand people I disagree with. Or, in an example like Thomas Jefferson, who was ardent about tyranny, never seemed to question slavery...in a lot of ways, it's like removing one set of blinders at a time.

Compared to how "the insane" were often treated, Dorothea Dix was the real breakthrough pioneer.

Maybe we can also say, "Hey, nervous rich lady, it's your own fault for employing Freud". It's usually pretty uncomfortable to answer ourselves about how we allowed ourself to be swindled, deceived, taken advantage of...

In Freud's admission that he's basically an adventurer, that adventurism probably explains much more human behavior, than people who are devoted to some kind of ethical plan. I'd expect that if most people had the opportunity to get coked up and go around talking to people and writing papers, they would much rather do that, than what they actually do for a living.

[Flash]

I think you cannot judge him without taking his social/cultural background into consideration.


That's how I usually understand people I disagree with. Or, in an example like Thomas Jefferson, who was ardent about tyranny, never seemed to question slavery...in a lot of ways, it's like removing one set of blinders at a time.

Compared to how "the insane" were often treated, Dorothea Dix was the real breakthrough pioneer.

Maybe we can also say, "Hey, nervous rich lady, it's your own fault for employing Freud". It's usually pretty uncomfortable to answer ourselves about how we allowed ourself to be swindled, deceived, taken advantage of...

In Freud's admission that he's basically an adventurer, that adventurism probably explains much more human behavior, than people who are devoted to some kind of ethical plan. I'd expect that if most people had the opportunity to get coked up and go around talking to people and writing papers, they would much rather do that, than what they actually do for a living.

You do not seem fair to me here, nor for the women, nor for Freud. Starting with Freud, he was quite obviously a very unhappy man. God knows which secrets, apart from being coked which was not a secret at the time, which deep secrets he carried. Could be anything from having been beaten up as a youngster, having been rape or plainly being gay. Or yet, having a terrible wife. But he was obviously quite unhappy.

He was also a man of his time: mysoginistic like most (I just finished listening to Marie Curie's live movie wow did she meet mysogynist man) - mysoginists means woman haters, I do not know if it is the proper word in English.

And the woman were woman of their time too: often married young to men they did not want, who were fundamentally often chauvinistic pigs, bad at love making, with numerous mistresses or forced maids, rich wives having children with them they did not want either. And they had nobody to talk to about how prisoner like their life were. Plus, they had never met a man listening to them. Most women in such circumstances would have fallen for it, with or without sex.

I have seen women in that situation in some countries, and they would come to speak to me because as a foreigner, they knew I would have nobody in their family or friend to report the conversation to. Never heard as many lovers stories as in that country. They needed to speak out about their husband and its mistresses, about their own hidden lover, etc.

Everything always has to be seen within historical and cultural contexts (and often personal ones) before trying to pass any judgment, as long as people are in their ego, which is 99.9% of the population.

[petra]

I never liked Freud. He looks like a menace in that picture! Put him together with the Mesmer dude and you got a pretty sweet Psy-Op going on

[Iloveyou]

I suppose this thread is not meant to discuss Freud‘s theories in detail (there is not so much to discuss anymore - and anyway first it would require a lot of extensive reading) nor to focus on gossip and anecdotes of his intimate, personal life alone. I‘m curious where Herve wants it to go.

There are two subjects I find most intriguing:

1 Freud’s work was provocative and controversial from the beginning, it was ridiculed, fought against and disputed by opponents and dissidents (whether justly or not). But for the last two, three decades the critic‘s tone (esp. Frederick Crews) have become increasingly aggressive, personal attacking and irrationally malicious. Why? Is that on purpose, is there an agenda behind it and what would that be?

2 In the mid-1890s Freud found out that repressed memory of early childhood sexual abuse and molestation experience (by family members) was responsible for many of his patient‘s mental (and physical) health problems. By 1897, due to the heavy social pressure he abandoned his findings and developed the theory that his patient’s (bodily) memories were mere fantasies and forbidden desires. To stick with and to defend his observations would have meant economical and social suicide. That‘s no excuse, but perhaps an explanation. Anyway patriarchal bourgeois society remained unharmed.

Some say that the realization of the prevalence of sexual child abuse and its (individual and social) consequences plus the encounter of massive resistance contributed to his disease, cancer. (He was not able to tell what had to be said = permanent contraction of the jaw area = development of oral cancer. I know, this is a bit simplified.)

Could there be a connection between these two themes?

1. (Institutionalized) sexual Child abuse (as we know) is still widespread and rampant beneath the thin social surface and probably there‘s a millennia old agenda behind it (which the majority of perpetrators - as well as authors like Crews - might not be aware of).
2. Any trace of Freud‘s findings must be destroyed, his observations discredited - although he personally had denied and abandoned it anyway. Crews latest book being the best example.

I‘m aware that these thoughts sound a bit far-fetched, though it’d be too irritating to discard it.

[Iloveyou]

REICH SPEAKS OF FREUD

DR. EISSLER
Do you think that Freud abandoned the libido theory?

DR. REICH
No. Never! Never! Only he couldn't find his way further. He was stuck. I believe the way was my way, the way I went so successfully. I had to go through character analysis, the emotions, the pleasure anxieties, the opposite directions of flow of bioenergy in the organism, from there to the plasmatic movement - yes, to the amoebia - and, then, into the orgone energy outside. Libido as a physical cosmic reality - that is my work. Freud provided the concept. This is where he came in. This, to my mind, was his greatest deed. He was a very great man, a very great man.

http://lust-for-life.org/Lust-For-Life/WilhelmReich_ReichSpeaksOfFreud-WilhelmReichDiscussesHisWorkAndHisRelationshipWithSigmundFreud_1954_324pp/WilhelmReich_ReichSpeaksOfFreud-WilhelmReichDiscussesHisWorkAndHisRelationshipWithSigmundFreud_1954_324pp.pdf

[Hervé]

[...]
... I‘m curious where Herve wants it to go.
[...]
The direction stems from the title as a statement:

Fraudulent propaganda/public relation representation of one's abilities to wealthy clients ---> Tavistock Institute ---> Psy-ops ---> Bernays' legacy derived from his uncle's work.

If one wants to mobilize the patriots of a country, one only needs to tell them that the Babushkas are coming with pitch forks... errr.... "The Russians are coming!"

In short, not much more of a message than: the Tavistock Institute hired the Fraud and derived its world-round psy-ops from that guy's work... a truer history of this world we are in, somewhat.

[Flash]

I suppose this thread is not meant to discuss Freud‘s theories in detail (there is not so much to discuss anymore - and anyway first it would require a lot of extensive reading) nor to focus on gossip and anecdotes of his intimate, personal life alone. I‘m curious where Herve wants it to go.

There are two subjects I find most intriguing:

1 Freud’s work was provocative and controversial from the beginning, it was ridiculed, fought against and disputed by opponents and dissidents (whether justly or not). But for the last two, three decades the critic‘s tone (esp. Frederick Crews) have become increasingly aggressive, personal attacking and irrationally malicious. Why? Is that on purpose, is there an agenda behind it and what would that be?

2 In the mid-1890s Freud found out that repressed memory of early childhood sexual abuse and molestation experience (by family members) was responsible for many of his patient‘s mental (and physical) health problems. By 1897, due to the heavy social pressure he abandoned his findings and developed the theory that his patient’s (bodily) memories were mere fantasies and forbidden desires. To stick with and to defend his observations would have meant economical and social suicide. That‘s no excuse, but perhaps an explanation. Anyway patriarchal bourgeois society remained unharmed.

Some say that the realization of the prevalence of sexual child abuse and its (individual and social) consequences plus the encounter of massive resistance contributed to his disease, cancer. (He was not able to tell what had to be said = permanent contraction of the jaw area = development of oral cancer. I know, this is a bit simplified.)

Could there be a connection between these two themes?

1. (Institutionalized) sexual Child abuse (as we know) is still widespread and rampant beneath the thin social surface and probably there‘s a millennia old agenda behind it (which the majority of perpetrators - as well as authors like Crews - might not be aware of).
2. Any trace of Freud‘s findings must be destroyed, his observations discredited - although he personally had denied and abandoned it anyway. Crews latest book being the best example.

I‘m aware that these thoughts sound a bit far-fetched, though it’d be too irritating to discard it.

those are good questions.

the problem with pedophilia, I dare say regular pedophilia not linked to satanism, is one of power over others from people who significantly lack emotional maturity, lack the capacity for intimacy with a peer, and whose physical desire are often not fulfilled one way or another.

In other words, there are a lot of psychologically screwed up people who do not have the inner strenght to sustain relationships with equals in age or either who cannot abstain from physical impulses. Emotional repression has created lots of it.

the second problem is one of learning through screwed up people in turn screwing up the younger ones. Pedophiles were often submitted to pedophiles themselves.

Third, children do have sexual impulses entirely linked to their own body discovery and exploration that have nothing to do with adult sexuality as such. But, it is often confused with adult sexuality by those immature adults.

And fourth, as sexuality is one of the strongest instinct in human beings and all mammalians, in fact all animals, when it is paired with devious behavior in whichever specie (learned devious behavior), and this is more efficient if at an early age, (pavlov's dogs but having sex instead of food as a reward linked with a bell for example) it is almost impossible to change because it is linked to a specie survival behavior, one of the strongest on the planet. So, because of this, little can be done to change a pedophile or a rapist.

Finally, satanists and cabal know about this and use it extensively to make sure generations over generations are submitted to deviant sexual behavior because it is one of the best way to control a society on an individual basis as well as a collective one. Sexuality devoid of heart, affection and love.

Hence the spreading of pornography, early sexual exposure and hyper sexualisation from toddlers on.(huge amount of energies are spent on devious sexual behavior helping the destruction of the social fabric).

How are we going to cure such a whole society's sexuality devoid of love, I have no single idea!!!! With robots?? I do not think so. People are learning NOT to be responsible and mature beings, and mostly not to put efforts where needed for love to grow, sexuality within respect and appreciation being one of the main gate for real love.

Freud, Reich and others were baiscally right on the importance of sexuality in human behaviors. The intricacies of their theories may have been skewed, but the basic importance of harmful behavior in sex is right, as well as the basic importance of sane early learnings about one's own body and later on one's sexuality, to be paired with protection, non selfish love and joy instead of repression and exploitation for a sane human adult was and is right.

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For Bernay's legacy in regards to his uncle's work, do not forget that Freud was Bernay's uncle by marriage to his wife who was a Bernay, not by direct blood relation.

If I were repsonsible for all the misdeed of my ex husband family members, I would be not far from a satanist myself. And I am quite the opposite.

So please, we should not confound situations. Bernays used the information of his time for his own delerious need for greed and power, that it be from an uncle through marriage relations or any other German citizen of the time.

[Iloveyou]

And, from here (http://www.whale.to/b/tavistock_q.html) (<---):
[...]
According to some reputable researchers, Sigmund Freud was Tavistock's first director, followed by his daughter, who apparently still runs the facility.
[...]



Well, then a few last questions for now.

Who were the reputable researchers and why are they not named, at least one of them? Even if it was true Freud being the first director, what kind of direct influence would a man, terminally ill, in his last year after fighting cancer for 15 years, have? He lived in London from June 38 until his death in Sept 39. When was the article last updated? The daughter died in 1982.

Imo Freud and his name was used. Though I have no sympathy for his daughter and I consider the psychoanalytical establishment back then a bunch of unethical crazies. Just relating Freud himself directly to the business of Tavistock - something seems not quite right here.

edit:
He was in the early days (1938/39) one of the honorary vice-presidents of the Psychopathic Clinic (later the Portman Clinic), the clinical arm of the Tavistock Institute, according to their website.

[Hervé]

Although I suspect it might be John Coleman, I couldn't find a reference for Freud as director of the Tavistock clinic or the Institute; it might have been an honorary title, but that doesn't explain his statue in front of the Clinic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavistock_and_Portman_NHS_Foundation_Trust).


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Sigmund_Freud_statue%2C_London_1.jpg/220px-Sigmund_Freud_statue%2C_London_1.jpg
Nemon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Nemon)'s statue of Sigmund Freud (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud), in front of the Tavistock Centre, London

If anyone is interested in digging further, check this article: The Holiness of Sin: Freud, the Frankfurt School and the Kabbalah (http://www.conspiracyschool.com/blog/holiness-sin-freud-frankfurt-school-and-kabbalah)

... where one can find this:


The Tavistock Institute’s projects were a follow-up on the work of the Frankfurt School, a predominantly Jewish group of philosophers and Marxist theorists who fled Germany when Hitler shut down their Institut für Sozialforschung, “Institute for Social Research,” at the University of Frankfurt. The school’s main figures sought to learn from and synthesize the works of such varied thinkers as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, Weber and Lukacs, and focusing on the study and criticism of culture developed from the thought of Freud. and the expression of their "thoughts" as already posted in the OP (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?101058-The-Father-of-Psy-Ops-Sigmund-Fraud&p=1197415&viewfull=1#post1197415):

I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called "education." Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part.... It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.
…Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.[2] (http://www.conspiracyschool.com/blog/holiness-sin-freud-frankfurt-school-and-kabbalah#_edn2)

Lord Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society, 1951

[Hervé]

Digging in the article "The Holiness of Sin: Freud, the Frankfurt School and the Kabbalah (http://www.conspiracyschool.com/blog/holiness-sin-freud-frankfurt-school-and-kabbalah)" in conjunction with the quote from Rahkyt (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?101058-The-Father-of-Psy-Ops-Sigmund-Fraud&p=1197487&viewfull=1#post1197487), here is the strike down of the stage as it's a wrap for the discontinued play:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/images/misc/quote_icon.png I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me,
“My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That is the most essential thing of all. You see, we must make a dogma of it, an unshakable bulwark”

… In some astonishment I asked him,

“A bulwark-against what?”

To which he replied,

“Against the black tide of mud”

—and here he hesitated for a moment, then added—

“of occultism.”
~ Karl Gustav Jung, quoted here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?p=1197487#post1197487) (<---)

See?

That's the mega Psy-op! That's the colossal cover up! The hiding of the actual source origin of these mental instabilities the "wealthy" clients were plagued with (the others had Bedlam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital)s).

It's the "Nothing to see here, carry on!"

Because... what was designed to remain hidden under a pseudo scientific cover/veil are/were all the side effects of the Frankist, Sabbatean, Kabbalah SRAs:
Freud, when he was made aware of the Lurianic Kabbalah apparently exclaimed, “This is gold!” and asked why these ideas had never previously been brought to his attention.[13] (http://www.conspiracyschool.com/blog/holiness-sin-freud-frankfurt-school-and-kabbalah#_edn13) Carl Jung, who had worked with Freud, commented approvingly on the Jewish mystical origins of Freudian psychoanalysis, stating that in order to comprehend the origin of Freud’s theories:
…one would have to take a deep plunge into the history of the Jewish mind. This would carry us beyond Jewish Orthodoxy into the subterranean workings of Hasidism...and then into the intricacies of the Kabbalah, which still remains unexplored psychologically.[14] (http://www.conspiracyschool.com/blog/holiness-sin-freud-frankfurt-school-and-kabbalah#_edn14)
Freud’s theories were excessively concerned with sex and even incest, which is reflected in Sabbatean antinomianism. As Gershom Scholem noted, the Sabbateans were particularly obsessed with upturning prohibitions against sexuality, particularly those against incest, as the Torah lists thirty-six prohibitions that are punishable by "extirpation of the soul,” half of them against incest. Baruchiah Russo (Osman Baba), who in about the year 1700 was the leader of the most radical wing of the Sabbateans in Salonika and who directly influenced Jacob Frank, not only declared these prohibitions abrogated but went so far as to transform their contents into commandments of the new “Messianic Torah.” Orgiastic rituals were preserved for a long time among Sabbatean groups and among the Dönmeh until about 1900. As late as the seventeenth century a festival was introduced called Purim, celebrated at the beginning of spring, which reached its climax in the "extinguishing of the lights" and in an orgiastic exchange of wives (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?57036-Who-Is-Kay-Griggs).[15] (http://www.conspiracyschool.com/blog/holiness-sin-freud-frankfurt-school-and-kabbalah#_edn15)

(http://www.conspiracyschool.com/blog/holiness-sin-freud-frankfurt-school-and-kabbalah#_edn15)As Bakan indicated, in his book Moses and Monotheism, Freud makes clear that, as in the case of the Pharaohs of Egypt, incest confers god-like status on its perpetrators. In the same book, Freud argued that Moses had been a priest of Aten instituted by Akhenaten, the Pharaoh revered by Rosicrucian tradition, after whose death Moses was forced to leave Egypt with his followers. Freud also claims that Moses was an Egyptian, in an attempt to discredit the origin of the Law conferred by him. Commenting on these passages, Bakan claims that his attack on Moses was an attempt to abolish the law in the same way that Sabbatai Zevi did.

Thus, Freud disguised a Frankist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankism) creed with psychological jargon, proposing that conventional morality is an unnatural repression of the sexual urges imposed during childhood. Freud instead posited that we are driven by subconscious impulses, primarily the sex drive. In Totem and Taboo, published in 1913, which caused quite a scandal. Freud theorized about incest through the Greek myth of Oedipus, in which Oedipus unknowingly killed his father and married his mother, and incest and reincarnation rituals practiced in ancient Egypt. He used the Oedipus conflict to point out how much he believed that people desire incest and must repress that desire.
... so there you have it:


Tavistock fostered OSS, CIA with its MKultra and project Monarch with its "Presidential Models"



the sex slave industry



the child trafficking industry



"psychologists'" attempts at "normalizing" pedophilia via articles in the "news"



blaming the victims of sexual abuses



etc...

That should bring some understanding to what Henry Makow has been chipping at for a very long time...

[shaberon]

You do not seem fair to me here, nor for the women, nor for Freud.

Howso?

I understand that both parties are miserable. Freud came up with "something" that was supposed to help. The quality of it was not good. During an age heavy with puritanism and fear, nobody could really have these kind of talks. You're expected to stay quiet, right? Especially for women. For the most part they seem to have been given rather poor treatment and, historically, most men probably saw them as incomplete/less than human.

So actually it was a kind of first step--it may not have been very big, and it may not have been very good--as far as I am concerned, whatever it takes to melt away that fear and let someone feel they can say whatever they want, is important. On that note, its's not so bad. Just as some of the first conversations to kind of peel away the prudery and silence which was standard.

[Iloveyou]

Yes, I can roughly follow the sources. Crews, then Bakan, Drob ...

I‘ve not the shadow of a doubt about anything what is said about the Tavistock Institute. I‘m no defender of psychoanalytical theories. I cannot at all rule out that there is a very dark agenda behind the way how psychoanalysis has (been) developed in the course of the century.

What Bakan provides is his interpretation. The relation between Freud and Kabbalah has not been followed up since this study from 1958. There‘s no extended discussion about it that could provide insights. Questions arise. For example, the conversation (which is mere anecdotal evidence) when Freud supposedly did the exclamation: This is gold!

Freud, when he was made aware of the Lurianic Kabbalah apparently exclaimed, “This is gold!” and asked why these ideas had never previously been brought to his attention.[13] seems to be (at least partly) construed because the two books mentioned in Bakan’s study (Freud’s book on Moses and Bloch’s book on Chajim Vital) had not existed as mere manuscripts at the same time. (Source available only in German http://david.juden.at/2008/76/5_davidowicz.htm)

I know it is no use going into such details here, the more as I’m no expert, just an avid reader. What I want to convey is: Though there might be something to the connection Freud - Kabbalah (and then after some detours) - Tavistock - PsyOp‘s), the ones who are about to - not only deconstruct his work, but to discredit and destroy it entirely, have no clean hands, either. Their agendas and motives which I suspect to be extremely conservative - to put it mildly - should not be left out of a discussion.

Henry Makow, who apparently is a respected researcher, does not do a great favor to a possible discussion by calling Freud a Satanist, a Sabbatean with perverted satanist believes and a proponent of a Kabbalah sex cult, citing single phrases out of context and parroting unproven claims (like the conversation between Freud and Bloch, handed down by Bakan). Not to mention his utter distortion of Freud‘s theories: “As an overture to incest and pedophilia, he taught that children have sexual feelings for their opposite-sexed parents and feel hostility to their same-sex parent. At the extreme, his "Oedipus Complex" states that a boy subconsciously wants to kill his father and rape his mother.“ (Makow) To take these words literally is ridiculous.

https://www.henrymakow.com/freud_sabbatean.html

PS: I though very much appreciate the information you provide, Hervé, in all respects and I just hope (as a non-native speaker) I don‘t fill your thread with too much bad English.

[Hervé]

A word about the psychobabble monolith of the "One solution for all" concocted consensus-reality psy-ops of subjective belief universes (e.g. DSM-5 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5), new age, flat earth, etc....):

How I assembled The Matrix Revealed: the key symbol (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/12/28/how-i-assembled-the-matrix-revealed-key/)

by Jon Rappoport (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/author/jonrappoport/) Dec 28 (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/12/28/how-i-assembled-the-matrix-revealed-key/), 2017

The key was handed to me by a colleague and friend.

In 1987, when I was researching my book, AIDS INC., I took a side road. It was prompted by a conversation I had with the brilliant hypnotherapist, Jack True. He was telling me about experiences he’d had with his patients under hypnosis.
“Some patients encounter a ‘monolith’,” he said.

“They come across a symbol that is there in the subconscious. Sometimes it looks like a closed door. Sometimes it shows up as a blank wall. Sometimes it’s a geometric shape. One patient actually called it a ‘brick sky’.”

“But in every case, it locked up the patient’s ability to recall or explore under hypnosis. It was like a giant obstruction on a road. However, these patients could describe something about the nature of the symbol. They said it was broadcasting a message: ‘THIS IS REALITY’.”

“The patients were in awe of the symbol. It had a deep emotional effect on them. It was as if many different realities had come together to form this single symbol, like separate pieces clicking into place.”
Jack went further. He stated that the symbol induced a profound passivity in his patients…

Jack subsequently devised strategies to take apart the symbol, so these patients could rid themselves of their passivity and access huge amounts of previously blocked energies.

Well, I was shocked, because my research on my book had followed a parallel course.

I’ll explain.

The AIDS cover story that had been invented by medical researchers was all about One Reality, one disease condition caused by one virus, one label, one symbol for the condition: “AIDS”.

When, in fact, that was “the obstruction on the road” which was blocking further investigation. In fact, the whole “Oneness” myth was a lie.

A gigantic lie.

A very, very convincing lie. An awesome lie.

The truth was, so-called AIDS was many different conditions (realities) which had been falsely “clicked” together, through massive propaganda.

That was the key to unlocking the puzzle. And it was the key for me to move into new territory with new energy and confidence.

I’d been stalled at the wall, but now I could advance.

The awesome symbol, “AIDS,” had been shattered to pieces.

Since the publication of my book, I’ve of course investigated a number of other subjects, and in each case, there was a symbol, a monolith, an obstruction, and in every case I’ve taken the monolith apart to discover that it’s hiding a plurality of scandals and crimes and deceptions and realities.

The One False Unity concealing The Many.

These monoliths are very, very effective because—and this is vitally important to understand—they mirror the tendency of the subconscious mind to fall to its knees before A Single Symbol.

People gravitate to single causes, single symbols in every area of life, and they don’t penetrate further.

This is an aspect of the Matrix.

False Unities are the meat and potatoes of very high-level propaganda. They are launched in politics, economics, organized religion, science, psychology, the military, mind control, in all the academic disciplines.

As an analogy, consider a painting in which the three-dimensional perspective has been radically shortened to eliminate the background. But the background is really where all the action is. The foreground is the false Oneness.

Grasping all of this allowed me to go further than I thought possible in putting together The Matrix Revealed (http://marketplace.mybigcommerce.com/the-matrix-revealed/). My method of investigation altered radically, and I hit paydirt.

The Matrix is a multi-layered, multi-dimensional operation, seeded with symbols that broadcast FALSE UNITY.

And these symbols collaborate with the subconscious tendency to buy those UNITIES.

Your freedom and power emerge when the subconscious tendency is made conscious and can be seen in the light of day.

[...]

Jon Rappoport

[Hervé]

Under the article "The Holiness of Sin: Freud, the Frankfurt School and the Kabbalah (http://www.conspiracyschool.com/blog/holiness-sin-freud-frankfurt-school-and-kabbalah)" by David Livingstone (http://www.conspiracyschool.com/blog/1), there is this comment:
Permalink (http://www.conspiracyschool.com/comment/1170#comment-1170) Submitted by Shira (not verified) (http://originsofleftism.wordpress.com/) on Tue, 01/27/2015 - 17:26
I applaud you for publishing this as part of your book. I will, however, criticize this on one aspect: while this chapter successfully exposed the Frankfurt School as Sabbatean, it fails to mention specific Sabbatean elements of their most well-known books and essays.

To quote myself: Sabbatean-Frankist doctrine overturns Jewish Law by interpreting it in reverse (i.e. negative commandments such as “thou shall NOT kill” or “thou shall NOT commit adultery” became the positive commandments of “thou SHALL kill” and “thou SHALL commit adultery.”) Critical Theory from the Frankfurt School operates identical to this: it undermines Western Civilization by interpreting its values, traditions and institutions in reverse. So, to Cultural Marxists following Sabbateanism, “the family is the foundation of civilization” becomes “the family ‘unit’ is repressive”, “religious morality is needed for a healthy society” becomes “religious morality is evil/destructive” and so on.

This is the same method you see in The Authoritarian Personality, in which Adorno and others label those who support traditional Western values as having the “fascist” personality, whereas those who cannot live up to Western values are labeled as the ideal “liberal” personality.

This foolishness is also scattered all over Adorno’s other book which he wrote with Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, where they claimed Enlightenment ideology only enslaves people more, and Mankind needs to abandon traditional Western paradigms including religion and family if they are to be fully free. But this work is very important since it is littered with Sabbatean elements that are often overlooked. The concept which is central to the book is the one I just outlined: Mankind will not be liberated until nature is liberated. Horkheimer and Adorno took this concept directly from Walter Benjamin's Thesis on History, which is entirely based on Kabbalistic concepts. Kabbalists / Sabbateans believe that Mankind will never be liberated until G-D is liberated, hence why they seek to do evil as part of the process of "putting G-D back together" and identify their suffering with the (alleged) suffering of G-D. Likewise, Benjamin writes that the only way to obtain Mankind's liberation is to identify with what Marxists call "class struggle" as it has occurred throughout history. The concept of the messiah in his essay is also based entirely on the Sabbatean idea of Mankind becoming its own messiah, and makes parallels between the destruction of Western Civilization and the bringing forth of communism on earth with the restoration of the Kabbalist G-D and the bringing forth of the Messianic Era. The people who read these works often have no idea as to their evil origins.

It should also be noted, Scholem remarked how Benjamin was driven to Marxism through his obsession with the satanic Kabbalah and even heavily identified with the false "messiah" Jacob Frank. Although, I do believe Scholem was a closeted Sabbatean himself as his books on the topic seem to be full of disinfo. Yes, he reveals a lot about the origins of the demonic, pagan Kabbalah, Sabbateanism, Frankism and their relationship to the Illuminati, and was even willing to expose his own friend's satanic religion. However, it is what he DIDN'T tell us that should reveal his own doings. He did not go far enough which makes me think he was a Sabbatean all along.

"Critical Theory" is just 20th century Sabbateanism.

... which underlines the direct connection with satanism and its systematic inversion/reversing of any "laws" which is what Makow has been chipping at for a very long time.

As for the connection of sabbatean-Frankist-Satanist between Freud and Tavistock and the latter's "products" (psy-ops), one only need to look at who founded/funded Tavistock: Rockefeller! (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25102-For-an-idea-on-the-big-picture) (see also the Rockefeller's and their CIA's satanic connections (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?26195-POLICE-STATE-How-it-came-about-in-the-US-of-A&p=270679&viewfull=1#post270679)) Hence the birth of "Big Pharma" via the safe-keeping of I.G. Farben during WW II.

More on Tavistock's delicacies and intricacies: The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations: Shaping the Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, Political and Economic Decline of the United States of America. (http://www.peerage.org/genealogy/2000_John_Coleman_The_Tavistock_Institute_of_Human_Relations.pdf) (Pdf) John Coleman.

[Iloveyou]

In short, not much more of a message than: the Tavistock Institute hired the Fraud and derived its world-round psy-ops from that guy's work... a truer history of this world we are in, somewhat.

If this were true, then wouldn’t a researcher like John Coleman have found out and published details about Freud’s personal connection with / work for the Institute (at least in the annex) ? Information that would justify to call him a fraud?

In his book “The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations ... ” the name Freud is mentioned 5 times: 4 times it is about Bernays being a nephew of Freud, one mention is about “Tavistock Clinic in London was where Sigmund Freud had settled when he arrived from Germany”.

As already said that was in his last year, terminally ill after fighting oral cancer for 15 years, from June 38 until his death in Sept 39 - and after fleeing the Third Reich (when the Austrian population had decided to become a part of Nazi Germany). He would have gone anywhere.

The Freud statue in front of the Tavistock clinic was put there in 1970 ! Freud was deliberately misinterpreted and used, his name exploited. His work leaves lots of space for interpretation, even if someone had no malicious intentions. One may criticize and debunk his obsolete and absurd theories. Finally he was wrong. It is not fair to slander a person by calling him a fraud + conman (+ satanist) continuously and publicly, without providing hard facts.

Freud had (unsucessfully) tried to find a cure for human suffering, unfortunately starting from an incorrect position. Bernays managed to take Freud’s ideas about human beings and use them to manipulate the masses. I call that the difference between a tragic figure and a criminal.

add:

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Full documentary (03:54:00)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s


“... he discovered primitive, sexual and aggressive forces, buried deep inside the mind of all [???] human beings ...”

Who would deny their existence, looking at history or at any MSM or alternative news source. Freud’s biggest and essential error was his assumption that these forces were natural and inherent to a human being. He could not be farther from the truth.

[shaberon]

Put him together with the Mesmer dude and you got a pretty sweet Psy-Op going on

How would Freud be together with Mesmer? Mesmer led a transparent, public existence, performing "lay healing" on thousands. Didn't work for all, but did for many.

John Coleman's researches were from a few boxes of the Executive Intelligence Review pamphlets.

I would tend to agree with the previous post that Freud made some mistakes and was incomplete, whereas it was others such as Bernays who institutionalized the practices and intentionally used them, particularly to boost the pork market and to assist fertilizer companies with dumping fluoride into the drinking water. I see it more as the role of private businesses using government and "sophisticated think-tanks" to promote their interests; Bernays would have been nothing without a role in that arrangement.

[Michelle Marie]

Freud learned from a Satanist
http://whale.to/a/freud5.html
Got his sister-in-law, Minna Bernays, pregnant

Minna Bernays said to have confessed her affair to Karl Jung
Time and circumstances plotted out when she got an abortion
_______________
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/22/us/historian-links-freud-and-wife-s-sister-as-lovers.html

Sigmund Freud and Minna Bernays
A mountain of evidence, but denial of affair!
https://freudsbutcher.com/psychology/did-freud-sleep-with-his-sister-in-law/
_____________

Original post:
Freud, Zionism, and the Sexual Revolution
http://incogman.net/2010/11/freud-zionism-and-the-sexual-revolution/

Sigmund schlomo Freud:
"He repeatedly stated he found sexual morality 'contemptible'."
"...a Jewish supremacist and a stalwart Zionist."

The associated video has been soft-censored by YouTube.
"The following content has been identified by the YouTube community (gestapo?) as inappropriate or offensive to some audiences."

Freud, Zionism, and the Sexual Revolution
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Interesting connections.
Motivations seem to be surfacing along with the once hidden truth.

MM :hat:

[Iloveyou]

Well, I have nothing more to add. How could one argue against David Duke. Everyone is free to choose their own sources and to follow their chosen leaders. I’d just ask not to equate YT-censorship with Gestapo, because there’s a slight, though significant difference.

Take care and be well, all.

[petra]

Put him together with the Mesmer dude and you got a pretty sweet Psy-Op going on

How would Freud be together with Mesmer? Mesmer led a transparent, public existence, performing "lay healing" on thousands. Didn't work for all, but did for many.


Bad joke, I know. The "father" of Psy-Ops would have to be Mesmer in my book. He "discovered" hypnosis, and so that makes him the father of mind programming. Sigmund Fraud is more like the father of dream propaganda and phallic metaphors. Why does everything have to symbolize a penis? :P Maybe sometimes a sword is just a sword ;-)

EDIT: It was mentioned Freud was abused - and I tend to agree. I don't doubt the man was brilliant, but that's not the point now is it.

[shaberon]

Bad joke, I know. The "father" of Psy-Ops would have to be Mesmer in my book. He "discovered" hypnosis, and so that makes him the father of mind programming.

Psy-ops are at least as old as the Nine Unknown Men of India or Sun-Tsu.

Mesmer did not do hypnosis so much as animal magnetism. We might call it lay healing or chakra work or something. Not much to do with altering anyone's mind or thoughts. He was virtually a "father" of the composers Haydn and Mozart. The implication would then be that classical music is mind control, and all those symphonies have been programming the public for a few hundred years. I do not think this is so; and that the psychological school of hypnotism is something else.

He was not able to heal a few wealthy clients, but that would not place him at the level of a career con or swindle, as he was generally considered by thousands of patients to have been successful. On the other hand, there became vested interests with the means and motivations to make such people appear as quacks, in order to promote (the new) Allopathy and others such as Freud. This extinguished Natural Philosophy, the physical science of the ages which included metaphysics, which was followed by Sir Isaac Newton and others who were "re-written" to make it appear otherwise. Only after that, did we have plain, dead Physical Science, which continued to do things like bury Maxwell's Quarternion equations and replace them with Newton's Tensor or Integral form. This is still not studied or explained when science classes get to Maxwell.

[petra]

Psy-ops are at least as old as the Nine Unknown Men of India or Sun-Tsu.


Perhaps as old as the universe itself in my way of thinking! As long as there is a Psy to Op, someone somewhere is probably Opping it, y'know? :)



Mesmer did not do hypnosis so much as animal magnetism. We might call it lay healing or chakra work or something. Not much to do with altering anyone's mind or thoughts.


No - just the fact hypnosis exists I find very telling though. I looked up mesmerism and it pretty much means the same thing as hypnotism in general-speak.

Repressed memories are a big thing, in my mind. I understand it's a defense mechanism of the mind, but at the same time (from the ass-hole perspective) I think that the repressed memories can be planted there too, or even faked. I could be wrong, but assuming I'm right - that sounds like a pretty basis for Psy-Op to me.



He was virtually a "father" of the composers Haydn and Mozart. The implication would then be that classical music is mind control, and all those symphonies have been programming the public for a few hundred years. I do not think this is so; and that the psychological school of hypnotism is something else.

That's pretty interesting! I'll go even farther...

From a different perspective... I feel like ALL music can be used for mind control purposes. I'm not saying that it IS mind control, just that it can be used as such.

For example when every where I go a certain song is playing which in turn is triggering my memories and emotional responses - that's a Psy Op to me. Another example is having a song pop into my head, which in turn triggers associations and/or feelings. Maybe I even sing it out loud, and end up triggering someone else. I probably sound like a nut - but I'm positively certain music was/is being used against me (sometimes).

[shaberon]

No - just the fact hypnosis exists I find very telling though. I looked up mesmerism and it pretty much means the same thing as hypnotism in general-speak.

Repressed memories are a big thing, in my mind. I understand it's a defense mechanism of the mind, but at the same time (from the ass-hole perspective) I think that the repressed memories can be planted there too, or even faked. I could be wrong, but assuming I'm right - that sounds like a pretty basis for Psy-Op to me.


From a different perspective... I feel like ALL music can be used for mind control purposes. I'm not saying that it IS mind control, just that it can be used as such.

For example when every where I go a certain song is playing which in turn is triggering my memories and emotional responses - that's a Psy Op to me. Another example is having a song pop into my head, which in turn triggers associations and/or feelings. Maybe I even sing it out loud, and end up triggering someone else. I probably sound like a nut - but I'm positively certain music was/is being used against me (sometimes).

The first sentence is a main part of my point--yes, exactly, mesmerism and hypnotism are conflated to look the same to outsiders. Like Judaism and Phariseeism and many, many examples. Mind control by removing and altering information. It is very difficult to figure these out. Our educational system is built of things like this; especially American History. Enormous vested interests do not want you to understand Mesmer or American History.

Hypnotism runs everything, whether it is done in a special setting, via subliminal advertisements, or what people believe is the exercise of their free will in society. Unless cured, when two people see each other, they bathe in thousands of hypnotic suggestions at the speed of reflex.

Music is the same. Control is a matter of degree. It is difficult to program a person to kill if they hear a certain song, but it is unavoidable to broadcast influences. To the subconscious, there is no memory loss. Whatever was repressed, sits there like an anchor. Pleasant or unpleasant. Some "random" person mentions a band or something and all the flavors associated with it come boiling through. In the ordinary person, this is considered normal, and they are influenced or outright controlled.

It is entirely possible to achieve immunity. If one is not in complete control of one's mind, something else is. There must be a sense of responsibility for every single thought. It takes...a lot...to wash away the subconscious garbage, but it can be done.

Just as there is not one person who would cause you to hear the same song in three different places, there is not one person hypnotizing you/me/us, it's a collective and functions constantly, never resting or tiring. Granted, some people like Bernays took it to a new level, and now it operates commercially from the lights in phones to addictive chemicals in the food. A Mongol who needs nothing but a horse under open sky is miles ahead towards relief than those who partake of commercialism.

Anyone can get a good glimpse of Mesmerism with a domesticated cat. Just pet it. You may not be powerful enough to cure its cancer, but, if you can feel, you're feeling the basis of it.

[petra]

It is entirely possible to achieve immunity. If one is not in complete control of one's mind, something else is. There must be a sense of responsibility for every single thought. It takes...a lot...to wash away the subconscious garbage, but it can be done.


I'm dubious! I'd like to believe it's possible to be immune, but a part of me likens it to an allergy I cannot avoid.

Thanks for your perspective on this shaberon, I didn't mean to subvert the topic either! Here we're supposed to be bashing Freud... and I'm trying to say Mesmer is even worse (ha ha). He's not though - and neither is Freud, the real "father of psy op" would have to know everything about psychology.... so theoretically.... how could it even be a person.... :)

It's difficult to believe we're even talking about the same thing in regards to hypnotism especially when I get to "hypnotism runs everything", I think of consciousness itself, and I can feel I'm getting closer.

What IS consciousness? I can't define consciousness. If I look it up, it says 'the quality or state of being aware'. What's aware then? 'Having knowledge or perception...'

Having knowledge, and being able to use it, sounds closer to what awareness means to me.

Being responsible for one's own thoughts is very important in my mind too, that's essentially the same thing as being in control of myself. Problem is, there's times I don't trust myself and feel an unavoidable loss of control.

Dreams are not hurting me, and so the loss of control in dreams doesn't concern me much. Planting triggers (via hypnosis or other means) which I cannot control is much more concerning! When it boils right down to it I feel as if I'm "at the mercy of psychology".

It's difficult to think of a good example, mine are all too personal. Suffice to say, I have quite a few of what some might call "OCD triggers". No clucking like a chicken though (ha ha)

Consider someone who has PTSD from being in a war, and sees something years later that triggers their memory. They re-live it then, and there's nothing they could have done to avoid it, at least I don't think so. Maybe they even kill a few people in the process. It's not related to hypnosis, just a naturally repressed memory, but I think it illustrates my point pretty well. Should they go to jail for murder? Maybe maybe not - but that's not the point. The point is, repressed memories are dangerous in more ways than one. And that one wasn't even put there on purpose.

[shaberon]

Good perspective. These are the right kinds of issues to be looking at.

Consciousness is the child of life-force interacting with matter.

With the hypnosis, I mean it as a matter of degree. The full extent of which is the "session" where one person is rendered inert, then believes and follows *almost* anything the hypnotist says. It usually can't be something contradictory to the person's nature. In some ways, it is perhaps helpful. For instance, I once knew a master hypnotist who could do things like take someone crippled in a car accident, that doctors had been telling this patient for years would never walk again and...got them walking.

But, that is not how it is used in general. The general form is closer to an animal herd mentality. Now, the mind is inherently pure and has no "I" or assumptions about reality, such as "I like this car". Those are all constructs. People build these and cling to them fiercely, as if they were real or important, but it's just illusion. General hypnosis flowing in from the population keeps you looking at cars and liking or disliking them. Once this flux is established, then you are blown like a leaf in the wind by Bernays. Politics magnifies it to the point of war. Politics is almost completely this kind of hypnosis.

So then, yes, the real "father" is nature itself! And this is the unique position of a human being: the capability to distinguish nature's illusory tricks of the senses from the inherently pure mind. From this perspective, the mind of a "nice" person is actually still full of deceptions and errors, although it is in a better state to begin sorting this out, than a mind dragged by the whirlwind into hatred and greed.

One of the things the Chinese used to do to some prisoners was to put them in a small cage with a starving tiger. The prisoner would either get terrified and confess to be released, or eaten. One of my masters from generations back was placed in such a cage and just sat there, fearless. Didn't move, didn't think. When the tiger attacked, he shoved his fist down the animal's throat and throttled it until it died. Another one of my associates took a root canal with no anesthesia. "Mind over matter", or the complete shattering of hypnotic influences such as "I am afraid". It is a complete reversal of the way the mind keeps churning out thoughts which are mostly self-oriented.

Because people can kill tigers in one move, they certainly can become unaffected by advertising, politics, the actual military psy-ops, and so forth. Having an uncontaminated knowledge base also helps. I doubt there is anyone on this forum who can explain Eros or Ego because they have been degraded. I am not sure if it was the psychologists who changed them, but they are now unrecognizable. And our whole language has been intentionally manipulated the same way: turned downwards and outwards into the world of forms and things, and into the worship of false mental constructs such as what I like or what I want. So, in the way you described awareness, obtaining the right knowledge plus the ability to use it, is what we stand to gain.

Where or what is the consciousness in dreamless sleep?

[ThePythonicCow]

the Frankist, Sabbatean, Kabbalah SRAs
"SRA" stands for Satanic Ritual Abuse, I presume?




[Note from Hervé: correct, indeed ]

[Hervé]

As I mentioned earlier in this thread:


Digging in the article "The Holiness of Sin: Freud, the Frankfurt School and the Kabbalah (http://www.conspiracyschool.com/blog/holiness-sin-freud-frankfurt-school-and-kabbalah)" [...]
... what was designed to remain hidden under a pseudo scientific cover/veil are/were all the side effects of the Frankist, Sabbatean, Kabbalah SRAs:
Freud, when he was made aware of the Lurianic Kabbalah apparently exclaimed, “This is gold!” and asked why these ideas had never previously been brought to his attention.[13] (http://www.conspiracyschool.com/blog/holiness-sin-freud-frankfurt-school-and-kabbalah#_edn13)...
[...]Here is more on that subject:


Freud, Sexual Abuse, and B'nai B'rith (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/)

Laurent Guyénot The UNZ Review (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/)
Mon, 30 Sep 2019 12:00 UTC


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In the last few years, there have been lots of news reports (e.g., here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB1Erb0wMCU)), documentary films (e.g., Yoland Zauberman's "M" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0P55P0nrdg)), and articles (e.g., here (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318475825_Twice_Silenced_The_Underreporting_of_Child_Sexual_Abuse_in_Orthodox_Jewish_Communities) and here (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-23/jewish-leaders-thought-it-was-a-sin-to-report-child-abuse/8380574)) about sexual abuse of children in Orthodox Jewish communities. In March 2017 (https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-police-arrest-22-haredim-for-sex-crimes-1.5453864), for instance, Haaretz reported that the Israeli police arrested 22 ultra-Orthodox Jews for sex crimes against minors and women, and in July 2019 The Times of Israel (https://www.timesofisrael.com/child-advocates-blast-systemic-failures-in-israels-handling-of-sex-abuse-cases/) reported that "Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman was alleged to have improperly intervened to aid at least 10 sex offenders from Israel's ultra-Orthodox community." In 2015, Jewish attorney Michael Lesher wrote Sex Abuse, Shonda and Concealment in Orthodox Jewish Communities (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Sex+Abuse,+Shonda+and+Concealment+in+Orthodox+Jewish+Communities&i=stripbooks-intl-ship&ref=nb_sb_noss), to document
"the dismal history of how far too many of those cases have been assiduously concealed both from the public and from the police: how influential rabbis and community leaders have sided with the alleged abusers against their victims; how victims and witnesses of sexual abuse have been pressured, even threatened, not to turn to secular law enforcement for help; how autonomous Jewish 'patrols,' displacing the role of official police in some large and heavily religious Jewish neighbourhoods, have played an inglorious part in the history of cover-ups; ... how some Jewish communities have even succeeded in manipulating law enforcement officials to protect suspected abusers." This reminds me of the story of how Freud, having stumbled upon the widespread reality of child abuse among his mostly Jewish clientele, covered it up with the theory that all little girls desire their fathers' penis and all little boys dream of screwing their mothers — and named his theory after a Gentile myth.

2. Freud's Assault on Truth


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The story has been told by Jeffrey Masson in The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory (1984).[1] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_1) In 1895 and 1896, Freud, listening to his neurotic and hysterical patients, became convinced that most of them had suffered from traumatic sexual abuse in their childhood. The traumatic origin of "hysteria" (an overused diagnosis in those days) had already been discussed by neurologists, including Jean-Martin Charcot, whose conferences Freud had attended in Paris, and Hermann Oppenheim, who published in Berlin in 1889 a treatise on traumatic neuroses. Yet psychological traumas of sexual nature were rarely discussed openly. On the other hand, there were medical publications, known to Freud, documenting the frequency of violence on children, including sexual assaults, but they focused on the physical consequences. In April 1896, confident to have made a major breakthrough in psychiatry, Freud presented his findings to the Society for Psychiatry and Neurology in Vienna, his first major public address to his peers. His lecture met with total silence. According to Masson, Freud was urged never to publish it, lest his reputation be damaged beyond repair. He found himself isolated, but nevertheless published his paper, "The Aetiology of hysteria."

Freud's conclusions are drawn from 18 case studies (6 men and 12 women), all of which, he claims, bear his general thesis:
"I therefore put forward the thesis that at the bottom of every case of hysteria there are one or more occurrences of premature sexual experience, occurrences which belong to the earliest years of childhood but which can be reproduced through the work of psycho-analysis in spite of the intervening decades. I believe that this is an important finding, the discovery of a caput Nili in neuropathology."

"Sexual experiences in childhood consisting in stimulation of the genitals, coitus-like acts, and so on, must therefore be recognized, in the last analysis, as being the traumas which lead to a hysterical reaction to events at puberty and to the development of hysterical symptoms." Freud suggests that this conclusion applies not only to hysteria but to most neuroses. Among other remarks, he suggests that children who aggress sexually other children do so as a result of having been sexually abused themselves:
"children cannot find their way to acts of sexual aggression unless they have been seduced previously."
However, one year after this article, Freud decided that he had made a mistake in believing his patients. He determined that what he had taken as repressed memories of sexual abuse, were in fact "phantasies." For the rest of his life, he would keep telling how he overcame his error and discovered that "these phantasies were intended to cover up the auto-erotic activity of the first years of childhood, to embellish it and raise it to a higher plane. And now, from behind the phantasies, the whole range of a child's sexual life came to light" (The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement, 1919).

From the standpoint of Freud's earlier theory — which he euphemistically called the "seduction theory" — his new theory of spontaneous infantile sexual fantasies can be seen as a projection, not unlike sex offenders' tendency to blame their victims: the patients themselves are now accused of both sexual passion and murderous fantasies toward their parents. By repressing these self-generated impulses, says Freudian orthodoxy, they have created their own neuroses which may, in hysterics, take the forms of false memories of abuse.

Thirty-five years later, Freud's most gifted disciple, once president of the International Psychoanalytical Association, stumbled on the same realization that Freud had shared in "The Aetiology of hysteria." Sandor Ferenczi wrote in his diary in July 1932 that the Oedipus complex could well be
"the result of real acts on the part of adults, namely violent passions directed toward the child, who then develops a fixation, not from desire [as Freud maintained], but from fear. 'My mother and father will kill me if I don't love them, and identify with their wishes.'"
Overcoming his apprehension of Freud's reaction, Ferenczi dared present his conclusions before the 12th International Psycho-Analytic Congress in a lecture titled "Confusion of tongues between the adults and the child". His paper contains a number of important ideas confirmed by later research, such as the victims' psychological "identification with the aggressor," or "introjection":
"the aggressor disappears as external reality and becomes intrapsychic instead of extrapsychic," so that even the guilt feelings of the aggressor are introjected. Ferenczi hypothesized that helplessness causes the victim to empathize with the aggressor, a process today known as "Stockholm syndrome" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome).
"Extreme adversity, especially fear of death," may also trigger a premature development, for which Ferenczi uses the metaphor of "a fruit that ripens or becomes sweet prematurely when injured by the beak of a bird, or of the premature ripening of wormy fruit. Shock can cause a part of the person to mature suddenly, not only emotionally but intellectually as well." Such traumatic maturation happens at the expense of psychological integration, and Ferenczi brings in the notion of a personality split:
"there can be no shock, no fright, without traces of a personality split."
In his personal diary, reflecting on a patient who cannot remember having been raped, but dreams of it ceaselessly, Ferenczi writes:
"I know from other analyses that a part of our being can 'die' and while the remaining part of our self may survive the trauma, it awakens with a gap in its memory. Actually it is a gap in the personality, because not only is the memory of the struggle-to-the-death effaced, but all other associatively linked memories disappear... perhaps forever."
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1922 group portrait, with Ferenczi sitting next to Freud


This observation is consistent with the findings of French medical doctor and psychologist Pierre Janet (1859-1947), whose work has long been overshadowed by Freudian psychology but has generated increased interest since the 1980s. Janet theorized the first model of "dissociative identity disorders," now included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. In Les Névroses (1909), Janet wrote:
"Just as synthesis and association are the great characteristics of all normal psychological operations, so dissociation is the essential characteristic of all diseases of the mind."
Dissociation accounts for the evolution of traumatic memories, composed of physiological, sensory, affective, and cognitive experiences, which Janet calls "idées fixes." These fragmented aspects of the experience do not allow a real memory to integrate the biography of the subject, and instead develop into separate psychic entities, which nevertheless interfere with the main personality. In the most severe cases, it can develop into schizophrenia or multiple personalities.

Ferenczi's lecture "Confusion of tongues" met with the same disapproval from members of the Psycho-Analytic Association as Freud's "Aetiology of hysteria" had met from Viennese psychiatrists. Ferenczi was ostracized by Freud and his sectarian disciples, and his paper was never translated in English for the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, as was customary. He died a few years later, a broken man.

3. The hidden fault of the father
This story raises two questions: First, what is it that made Freud change his mind in the first place, and made him shun Ferenczi's work thirty years later? Secondly, and more importantly, why was Freud's theory so successful, despite being long proven scientifically flawed, and its therapeutic value baseless?

On the first question, Masson shares his "conviction that what Freud had uncovered in 1896 — that, in many instances, children are the victims of sexual violence and abuse within their own families — became such a liability that he literally had to banish it from his consciousness." This theory has been challenged, and Masson has been criticized for exaggerating the negative reaction to Freud's seduction theory (read here (https://www.esterson.org/Myth_of_Freuds_ostracism.htm)). All that can be said with confidence is that his paper didn't bring him the instant fame he expected.

Masson takes other factors into account. He believes that Freud was influenced by the wacky otorhinolaryngologist Wilhelm Fliess, unhappy inventor of the "nasal reflex neuroses," with whom Freud had developed a very peculiar emotional bond (incidentally, Fliess' son Robert would later write on sexual abuse and hint of his own abuse by his father). Masson is the editor of the unexpurgated version (https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Letters-Sigmund-Wilhelm-1887-1904/dp/0674154207) of Freud's letters to Fliess (Freud destroyed Fliess' letters, but failed to have his own letters destroyed), which provide unique information on the way Freud elaborated his theories (most important excerpts here (http://ww3.haverford.edu/psychology/ddavis/ffliess.html)). Yet at the end of his fascinating investigation, Masson admits that the full explanation for Freud's sudden conversion eludes him.

Additional insight has been supplied by two books published almost simultaneously (1979), one in French and one in German, both translated in English in 1982: Marie Balmary, Freud and the Hidden Fault of the Father (https://www.amazon.com/Psychoanalyzing-Psychoanalysis-Freud-Hidden-Father/dp/0801823498), and Marianne Krüll, Freud and His Father (https://www.amazon.com/Marianne-Translated-Pomerans-Preface-Stierlin/dp/B002MRW6GA).


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Both draw extensively from Freud's letters to Fliess, which document how Freud was led to his theoretical about-face by his introspective self-analysis. Balmary and Krüll point out that Freud undertook this self-analysis just after the death of his father Jacob. On November 2, 1896, ten days after his father's death, Freud wrote to Fliess about a dream he had the night before the funeral, in which appeared a sign saying, "You are requested to close the eyes," which he interpreted as referring to "one's duty to the dead." Yet on February 11, 1897, after mentioning that forced oral sex on children can result in neurotic symptoms, he adds:

"Unfortunately, my own father was one of these perverts and is responsible for the hysteria of my brother (all of whose symptoms are identifications) and those of several younger sisters. The frequency of this circumstance often makes me wonder."
The following summer, he went through a depressive episode, and wrote on July 7:
"I still do not know what has been happening to me. Something from the deepest depths of my own neurosis set itself against any advance in the understanding of the neuroses, and you have somehow been involved in it."
Soon after, September 21, he announced to his friend:
"I want to confide in you immediately the great secret that has been slowly dawning on me in the last few months. I no longer believe in my neurotica [his seduction theory]."
He gave as one explanation, "the surprise that in all cases, the father, not excluding my own, had to be accused of being perverse." In the next letter, October 3, he wrote confidently that in the case of his own neurosis, "the old man plays no active part." Finally, October 15, he referred to the Oedipus story:
"A single idea of general value dawned on me. I have found, in my own case too, [the phenomenon of] being in love with my mother and jealous of my father, and I now consider it a universal event in early childhood."
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Sigmund and his father Jacob in 1854


Balmary and Krüll independently build a strong case that Freud backed off from a theory which tarnished the ideal image of the father he was grieving. After his father's death, Freud felt constrained by a mandate that he was unable to resist, and hence, "dutiful son that he was, took the guilt upon his own shoulders with the help of his Oedipus theory" (Krüll, p. 179). Balmary and Krüll bring in the equation a recent biographical discovery of Jacob Freud's less than perfect behavior; a forgotten second wife named Rebecca, who mysteriously disappears, possibly by suicide, at the time of Jacob's marriage with his third wife, the beautiful Amelia Nathansohn, half his age and already pregnant of Sigmund (a fact Jacob tried to conceal by falsifying Sigmund's date of birth). In light of post-Freudian developments in transgenerational depth-psychology,[2] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_2) it is possible that Freud had from early age an intuitive sense of a "hidden fault of the father" linked to his own identity, which may have combined with memories of his father's sexual abuse on himself and his brother and sisters. During his self-analysis at the age of 40, the whole thing came knocking at the door of his consciousness, but he finally surrendered to the subconscious imperative to "close the eyes." To cover-up the menacing truth of his father's faults, Freud invented the Oedipus complex, charging children themselves of "polymorphous perversion."

Balmary points out that, in his personnal identification with the hero Oedipus (who solved the riddle of the Sphinx), Freud truncated the myth. According to Greek tragedians, Oedipus' father Laius was cursed by the gods for seducing a young teenage boy and leading to his suicide. Then, frightened by the oracle's prophecy that he would be killed by his own son if he conceived one, Laius had his newborn son abandoned in the forest, "ankles pierced by the middle with iron spikes" (Euripides, The Phoenician Maidens). Thus, in the complete myth, Oedipus' predestination to kill his father and marry his mother is not determined by his own impulses, but by the fault of his father. For Balmary, Freud's ignorance of this part of the myth reveals and symbolizes his own blind spot, his failure to discover the secret guilt of the father — both his own father and, by consequence, the fathers of his neurotic and hysterical patients.

4. The "dark, emotional powers" of Jewishness
Neither Masson not Balmary deal with the Jewish aspect of the issue. Marianne Krüll hints that the father's mandate to "close the eyes" was a question of "filial piety on which, ultimately, the entire Jewish tradition is based" (Krüll, p. 178), but, although Jewish herself, she does not insist on that aspect.

For an interesting reflection on the Jewish hidden background of the Oedipus complex, we can turn to the very stimulating book of John Murray Cuddihy, The Ordeal of Civility.[3] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_3) The author points out that Freud had been fascinated by Sophocles' play Oedipus Rex from his adolescence. When he saw it played in 1885, it made again a deep and mysterious impression on him. Twelve years later, he wrote to Fliess (October 15, 1897) that he has found, with his new theory of universal repressed wishes of incest and parricide, the explanation for "the gripping power of Oedipus Rex." In other words, comments Cuddihy, Freud "proposes a theory to explain the play's power over him and to make 'intelligible' why he should identify so deeply with its hero, Oedipus. It is in the course of that effort that the core of the theory of psychoanalysis is born."

But then, Cuddihy suggests that Freud failed to see the real origin of his fascination with Oedipus Rex. What had resonated deeply in him from the time he first read Oedipus Rex was not so much the general plot of the play (the hero killing his father and marrying his mother), as the circumstances in which Oedipus killed his father: coming down a narrow road, Oedipus was rudely ordered to step aside by the herald of the king, then was struck on the head by the king himself. Enraged, Oedipus slew the king, his herald and the rest of his retinue except one. This story — not acted but narrated in the play — bears an uncanny resemblance with another story that had made a lasting impression on Freud a few years earlier, as he explained in The Interpretation of Dreams. This is a story that his father, a shtetl Jew from Moravia — where Sigmund was born — , had told him when he was ten or twelve years old,
"to show how much better things were now than they had been in his days. 'When I was a young man,' he said, 'I went for a walk one Saturday in the streets of your birthplace; I was well dressed, and had a new cap on my head. A Christian came up to me and with a single blow knocked off my cap into the mud and shouted: 'Jew! get off the pavement!' 'And what did you do?' I asked. 'I went into the roadway and picked up my cap,' was his quiet reply. This struck me as unheroic conduct on the part of the big, strong man who was holding the little boy by the hand. I had contrasted this situation with another which befitted my feelings better: the scene in which Hannibal's father, Hamilcar Barca, made his boy swear before the household altar to take vengeance on the Romans. Ever since that time Hannibal had had a place in my fantasies." Freud, Cuddihy argues, had experienced shame of his father, and "to be ashamed of a father is a kind of 'moral parricide.'"
"Freud presumably experienced not only this rage and shame, but guilt about the rage and shame. He quickly 'censored' these unacceptable feelings, unacceptable to a dutiful son ostensibly proud of his father; he 'repressed' them. Years later he encounters Sophocles' tragedy and it lays a spell on him." Still later, after his father's death, he rationalized this spell with a universal theory that discharged him from further inquiry into his own family story.
"But the idée fixe that Oedipus was to become for Freud," Cuddihy maintains, "hinges on a small detail (small, but structurally indispensable for the action of the story) that Freud never mentions in all the countless times he retells the 'legend': ... a social insult, a discourtesy on the road, stemming from someone in a position of social superiority (King Laius to the unknown wayfarer, Oedipus, just as the Christian in Freiberg who forced Jacob Freud into the gutter)."

According to Cuddihy, the supposedly universal "Oedipus Complex" that Freud thought he discovered was in reality the veil of a characteristically Jewish complex of his time.

Even if we judge that thesis overstrained (it is questionable how the phantasies of avenging and killing the father could merge), we can appreciate how Cuddihy draws attention to the fact that Freud's father — the father whom he felt compelled to exculpate, but toward whom he nevertheless experienced a murder wish — was a Jewish father recently immigrated from Yiddishland into the heart of European civilization.

Freud's disciple and first biographer Ernest Jones remarks that Freud "felt himself to be Jewish to the core, and evidently it meant a great deal to him."[4] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_4) Books dealing specifically with Freud's Jewishness (such as Moshe Gresser, Dual Allegiance: Freud as a Modern Jew, Sunny Press, 1994) can rely on several statements made by Freud himself, either in private correspondence or in Jewish environment. In the preface for the Hebrew translation of Totem and Taboo, for example, asking himself rhetorically what is Jewish in his work, Freud answered: "a very great deal, and probably its very essence."[5] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_5) In a speech prepared for delivery at the B'nai B'rith Lodge in Vienna in 1926, Freud explained his motivation for joining thirty years earlier (1897):
"Whenever I have experienced feelings of national exaltation, I have tried to suppress them as disastrous and unfair, frightened by the warning example of those nations among which we Jews live. But there remained enough to make the attraction of Judaism and the Jews irresistible, many dark emotional powers all the stronger the less they could be expressed in words, as well as the clear consciousness of an inner identity, the familiarity of the same psychological structure. ... So I became one of you."[6] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_6) This statement is an excellent illustration of what Cuddihy calls "the ordeal of civility," the struggle of every Jew who wishes to assimilate yet feels unable to overcome the "dark emotional powers" of his ancestral Jewishness, with its implicit imperative not to assimilate. Jewishness has much to do with what Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy calls those "invisible loyalties" that can bind a person to his ancestors, by an irresistible system of values, obligations and debts.[7] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_7) The question is to what extent Freud's psychoanalytical theory is the result of Freud's surrender to those "dark emotional powers."

We must take Freud seriously when he tells us, in The Interpretation of Dreams, that his own Jewishness took the form of an identification with Hannibal, and the fantasy of "taking vengeance on the Romans." He went on to say:
"I myself had walked in Hannibal's footsteps ... Hannibal, with whom I had achieved this point of similarity, had been my favourite hero during my years at the Gymnasium; ... Moreover, when I finally came to realize the consequences of belonging to an alien race, and was forced by the anti-Semitic feeling among my classmates to take a definite stand, the figure of the Semitic commander assumed still greater proportions in my imagination. Hannibal and Rome symbolized, in my youthful eyes, the struggle between the tenacity of the Jews and the organization of the Catholic Church. The significance for our emotional life which the anti-Semitic movement has since assumed helped to fix the thoughts and impressions of those earlier days. Thus the desire to go to Rome has in my dream-life become the mask and symbol for a number of warmly cherished wishes, for whose realization one had to work with the tenacity and single-mindedness of the Punic general, though their fulfillment at times seemed as remote as Hannibal's life-long wish to enter Rome." The significance of this public confession, printed in 1899 for all the world to read, cannot be overestimated. Here Freud names as the driving force in his life the fantasy of entering Rome (the Christian world) and destroying it to avenge the Phoenicians (the Jews).

If Freud was deeply influenced by his Jewish background, so were the other founding members of the psychoanalytical movement. Dennis Klein writes in Jewish Origins of the Psychoanalytic Movement:
"From its beginning in 1902 to 1906, all 17 members were Jewish. The full significance of this number lies again in the way their viewed themselves, for the analysts were aware of their Jewishness and frequently maintained a sense of Jewish purpose and solidarity. ... this feeling of positive Jewish pride formed the matrix of the movement in the psychoanalytic circle: As a spur to renewed independence, it tightened the bond among the members and powered their self-image of a redemptive elite."[8] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_8)
The exception is Carl Jung, whom Freud named president of the International Psychoanalytical Association in 1910 precisely to deflect the reproach that psychoanalysis was a "Jewish science."[9] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_9) Interestingly, Jung is the only member who never subscribed to Freud's theory of infantile sexuality. In response to a letter by Karl Abraham, who complained that "Jung seems to be reverting to his former spiritualistic inclinations," Freud explained : "it is really easier for you than it is for Jung to follow my ideas, for ... you stand nearer to my intellectual constitution because of racial kinship (Rassenverwandtschaft)." Freud asked Abraham not to antagonize Jung because "it was only by his appearance on the scene that psychoanalysis escaped the danger of becoming a Jewish national affair."[10] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_10)

In contrast to Jung, Abraham was the most zealot supporter of Freud's theory of infantile sexuality. In The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement, 1919, Freud wrote that, "The last word in the question of traumatic etiology was later on said by Abraham, when he drew attention to the fact that just the peculiar nature of the child's sexual constitution enables it to provoke sexual experiences of a peculiar kind, that is to say, traumas" (self-inflicted traumas, so to speak). Freud was referring to a 1907 paper by Abraham, "The Experiencing of Sexual Trauma as a Form of Sexual Activity." It is perhaps significant that Abraham, son of an Orthodox rabbi, was also the most ethnocentric of Freud's disciples. He wrote in 1913 an essay "On Neurotic Exogamy," diagnosing Jewish men who say they "could never marry a Jewess" with a neurosis resulting from "disappointed incestuous love."[11] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_11)

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5. Denial, projection, inversion
I suggest that Freud's abandon of the seduction theory and its cover-up by the Oedipus complex were motivated, half-unconsciously at least, by Freud's loyalty, not only to his father, but to his Jewish community. In the 1890s, Freud's clientele was drawn exclusively from the Jewish middle class. Imagine if Freud's seduction theory had earned him the recognition he craved for: although he disguised the identity of his patients in his case studies, it would not have been long before his work was attacked, not just as "Jewish science," but as evidence of the depravity of Jewish mores.


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However, I don't think Freud reasoned consciously in this manner. As he was turning a blind eye on the incestuous sexuality of his patients' families, his blindness was not fake, but psychologically constrained; it is the blindness that characterizes Jewishness. At the core, Jewishness is the conviction, deeply internalized from the earliest age, of the superiority of Jews over non-Jews — "chosenness". Anything contradicting this superiority creates a cognitive dissonance which is overcome by denial.

Denial means projection: to protect the dirty secret of child abuse in Jewish families — including his own — , Freud projected an imaginary repressed infantile perversion on all mankind. Projection, in turn, means inversion: Freud's close disciple Otto Rank claimed that Jews had a more primitive, and therefore more healthy sexuality than Gentiles (Rank, "The Essence of Judaism," 1905). Freudians and Freudo-Marxists have systematically denounced Christian civilization as suffering from sexual repression. According to Wilhelm Reich, anti-Semitism is itself a symptom of sexual frustration, and could be cured by sexual liberation (The Mass Psychology of Fascism, 1934) — an improvement from Leo Pinsker's theory that Judeophobia was a "hereditary" and "incurable" "disease transmitted for two thousand years."[12] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_12) In order to understand the psychological background of this Reichian messianic mission to cure the Christian West, and in order to see more clearly the projective nature of the psychoanalytical theory of repression, it is helpful to know the personal story of Wilhelm Reich, which reads as a caricature of Freud's: At ten years old, when he realized that his mother was having an affair with his tutor, the young Wilhelm thought of blackmailing his mother into having sex with him. Eventually, he confided in his father about his mother's adultery. In 1910, after a period of beatings from his father, his mother committed suicide, for which Reich blamed himself.[13] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_13)

One of the most puzzling aspects of Jews' relationship with their host nations is its ambivalence — patterned on biblical "history": within Jewish thinking, saving the nations and destroying them are not two sides of the same coin, but one and the same, because what nations are supposed to be cured of is their very identity (their gods, in biblical terms). According to Andrew Heinze, author of Jews and the American Soul, Jews have shaped "American ideas about the mind and soul" with the preoccupation "to purge the evils they associated with Christian civilization."[14] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_14) It really started with Freud. In September 1909, invited to give a series of lectures in New England, Freud jokingly asked his companions, Sandor Ferenczi and Carl Jung: "Don't they know we're bringing them the plague?"[15] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_15) An extraordinary statement for a medical doctor pretending to have found a "cure" for neurosis. And a prophetic one: Freudism became a justification for a sexual "liberation" that can be seen in retrospect as a massive sexual abuse of the youth.


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Sigmund's grandson Sir Clement Freud, British MP, pedophile, rapist, and suspected murderer of a three-year-old girl


6. B'nai B'rith and the road to fame
By a stunning coincidence, Freud was initiated into the recently founded B'nai B'rith in September 1897, precisely the time of his conversion to the dogma of infantile sexuality. Dennis Klein writes in chapter 3 of his book ("The Prefiguring of the Psychoanalytic Movement: Freud and the B'nai B'rith") that after the bitter disappointment of being denied professorship, "Freud filled, through the B'nai B'rith, the professional as well as the social vacuum in his life." He was a very active member attending almost every meeting during the first decade, his most productive years. He recruited at least three members and in 1901 was a founding father of a second lodge in Vienna, the Harmony Lodge. The same year, he gave a talk on "Goals and Purposes of the B'nai B'rith Societies." Freud often presented his work to the B'nai B'rith before publishing it. In this respect, writes Klein, the Viennese B'nai B'rith lodge "was a precursor of the movement of psychoanalysis." "After his death in 1939, the B'nai B'rith of Vienna continued, relentlessly, the support granted during his lifetime to the famous 'brother.'"[16] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_16)

To what extent were the B'nai B'rith masonic meetings influential in Freud's swing from the seduction theory to the Oedipus theory? No one can say. However, we can hold as fairly certain that Freud's membership in the B'nai B'rith was influential in his becoming one of the major intellectual stars and gurus of modernity.


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As a scientist, Freud was a failure, duped by his own unconscious and his unrealistic confidence that he could solve the human enigma by self-analysis alone. He was also an impostor who, in his published case studies, invented cures when they was none (as investigations into the real biographies of his patients have shown).[17] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_17) True, he was sometimes insightful. But the hagiographic image of Freud as the "discoverer of the unconscious" is totally unwarranted, as Henri Ellenberger has shown in his classic study, The Discovery of the Unconscious:
"throughout the nineteenth century there existed a well-rounded system of dynamic psychiatry. ... The basic features of the first dynamic psychiatry were the use of hypnosis as an approach to the unconscious mind, the interest in certain specific conditions called 'magnetic diseases,' the concept of a dual model of the mind with a conscious and an unconscious ego, the belief in the psychogenesis of many emotional and physical conditions, and the use of specific psychotherapeutic procedures; the therapeutic channel was seen as being the 'rapport' between hypnotist and patient. ... the cultural impact of the first dynamic psychiatry was far greater than is generally believed."[18] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_18) It could easily be argued that, in matters of psychology, every sensible thing that Freud said had been said before him, and that almost everything he said that hadn't been said before has been proven wrong.

So why did Freud become so famous? The long answer is that Freud benefited from the same kind of communication networking that produced many other Jewish intellectual "geniuses", and made French novelist André Gide comment in 1914 (in his diary) about "this tendency to constantly emphasize the Jew, ... this predisposition to recognizing in him talent, even genius"[19] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_19) The shorter answer to the question above is: B'nai B'rith. I will not suggest that the B'nai B'rith supported Freud's Oedipus theory because they saw its potential for the moral corruption of the West. Nor do I suggest that the B'nai B'rith and Freud conspired to ruin Western civilization with the pestilential idea of infantile sexuality. But I do suggest that, had Freud maintained his earlier conviction in the reality of the abuses suffered by his Jewish patients, he would not have received as much support.

To clarify this point, it is appropriate to recall a memorable demonstration of power by the B'nai B'rith, which has an obvious relevance to Freud's intellectual biography. In 1913, the B'nai B'rith created the Anti-Defamation League to save the life and the reputation of Leo Frank, the wealthy young president of the Atlanta chapter of B'nai B'rith, who was convicted of the rape and murder of Mary Phagan, a thirteen-year-old girl working in his pencil factory. The evidence for Frank's guilt was overwhelming, but tremendous financial resources were deployed for his legal defense — including false testimonies — and an intense publicity was orchestrated in the news media, with the New York Times devoting enormous coverage to the case. I quote from Ron Unz's article (http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-adl-in-american-society/):
"For almost two years, the nearly limitless funds deployed by Frank's supporters covered the costs of thirteen separate appeals on the state and federal levels, including to the U.S. Supreme Court, while the national media was used to endlessly vilify Georgia's system of justice in the harshest possible terms. Naturally, this soon generated a local reaction, and during this period outraged Georgians began denouncing the wealthy Jews who were spending such enormous sums to subvert the local criminal justice system. ... All appeals were ultimately rejected and Frank's execution date for the rape and murder of the young girl finally drew near. But just days before he was scheduled to leave office, Georgia's outgoing governor commuted Frank's sentence, provoking an enormous storm of popular protest, especially since he was the legal partner of Frank's chief defense lawyer, an obvious conflict of interest. ... A few weeks later, a group of Georgia citizens stormed Frank's prison farm, abducting and hanging him, with Frank becoming the first and only Jew lynched in American history."
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Mary Phagan


Thanks to the mobilization of the Jewish power elite — "as one man" (http://www.unz.com/article/israel-as-one-man/) — , Leo Frank has been turned from a convicted pedophile and child murderer into a martyr of anti-Semitism. We don't know what Freud thought of the case, but there is an obvious resonance between his "assault on truth" and the B'nai B'rith's. If young Mary Phagan had visited a Freudian psychoanalyst before her atrocious death, and complained of her boss' sexual overtures, she probably would have been told about her own "penis envy"; had she protested, she would have been told that her protest proved her sexual repression — exactly as happened to Freud's patient Dora, Ida Bauer by her real name, an eighteen-year-old girl suffering from hysterical symptoms.[20] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_20)

7. The Isaac complex (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#7-the-isaac-complex)
The son's repressed wish to murder his father is perhaps Freud's most fertile intuition. The problem is with Freud's abusive generalization. Only the neurotic son of a destructive and manipulative father has a repressed wish to "kill the father." Freud discovered this impulse in himself, and, confounding his self-analysis for a scientific quest of universal laws, he projected it on all mankind. But the fact that Freud's Jewish disciples all discovered the same impulse, and that Freudism became so widely accepted by Jews, suggests that Freud's generalization was not without merit. It only suffered from the tendency of Jewish intellectuals to project Jewish issues on all humankind. The child's repressed wish to kill his father is not universally human, but may be characteristically Jewish. For the Jewish father is the guardian of Jewishness and the representative of the Jewish god. And every Jew aspires in the depth of his soul to free himself from Yahweh, the archetypal abusive and castrating Father. As Philip Roth's character Smilesburger says in Operation Shylock: "To appeal to a crazy, violent father, and for three thousand years, that is what it is to be a crazy Jew!"[21] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_21) And so the secret wish to murder the Jewish father is also a secret wish for the death of the Jewish god. It is therefore identical with the so-called "Jewish self-hatred" that Theodor Lessing saw as affecting every Jew without exception: "There is not a single man of Jewish blood in whom cannot be detected at least the beginning of Jewish self-hatred."[22] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_22)

By choosing a Greek myth as a metaphor for his theory, Freud was projecting on Gentiles a Jewish problem. Had he recognized the Jewish overtone of the complex, he might have called it the "Isaac complex," since Isaac is the son that Abraham was willing to slaughter.

The expression "Isaac complex" has actually been used by French heterodox psychoanalyst Jean-Pierre Fresco (https://www.cairn.info/revue-le-coq-heron-2003-2-page-108.htm), who defines it as "the overall consequences in the son's psyche of a father perceived as psychologically menacing, destroying or murderous."[23] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_23) Fresco calls such a father "Abrahamic." He draws his insight from a reading of Franz Kafka's autobiographical and posthumously published Letter to the father, in which Kafka describes the devastating effect on his personality of a father whose means of education were "abuse, threats, irony, spiteful laughter, and — oddly enough — self-pity." Kafka also wrote to his father: "My writing was all about you, all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast."

Kafka's major novels refer autobiographically to his relationship with his father and its deleterious psychic consequences. The Metamorphosis tells of Gregor Samsa's transformation into a repulsive insect chased and killed by his father, whose incestuous violence is suggested in the scene where the father attacks his son from behind with a cane, tapping his feet and "pushing out sibilants, like a wild man." After the death of Gregor appears his sister Grete, his double in the other sex, the homosexualized son. In The Verdict, Georg (anagram of Gregor) has just become engaged with Frieda Brandenfeld (same initials as Felice Bauer, the woman that Kafka had just started dating), and announces it to his father. The father opposes a terrible prohibition to this project of marriage, accompanied by extreme narcissistic violence. The paternal prohibition of emancipation through marriage is linked to an incestuous domination that becomes clear when Georg submissively proposes to the father to exchange beds. Fresco also finds the psychic trace of the father in Kafka's novel The Trial, whose narrator Joseph K. was arrested without knowing who slandered him nor who will judge him. According to Fresco, this uncomprehensible and omnipotent slanderer-accuser-judge is "the palimpsest of an archaic Abrahamic father unconsciously introjected as an archaic and sadistic superego, and turned into an inner persecutor."

I find it very significant that Kafka — by his own admission — drew his inspiration from his experience as the son of a psychopathic father, while his Jewish literary critics consider him quintessentially Jewish. "By common consent," said Harold Bloom, "Kafka is not only the strongest modern Jewish writer, but the Jewish writer."[24] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_24) (Hence Israel's decade-long legal battle (https://www.france24.com/en/20190807-israel-gets-missing-kafka-papers-ending-long-legal-battle) to secure his autograph manuscripts as national treasure.) Who is right, of Kafka and his critics? Does his genius come from his being Jewish, or from his having a psychopathic father? Obviously, it is impossible to distinguish the two factors, because the psychopathic father happens to be Jewish; he is, in Fresco's terms, the typical "Abrahamic father." But are not all Jewish fathers Abrahamic in the measure of their Jewishness? Is not the Jewish god a psychopathic father — and the psychopathic father a Jewish god?

Kafka perceived his sadistic father as a cruel divinity, whose laws were totally arbitrary and yet unquestionable, just like the Jewish god: "for me as a child everything you called out to me was positively a heavenly commandment," he wrote in his Letter to the Father. "From your armchair you ruled the world. Your opinion was correct, every other was mad, wild, meshugge, not normal. Your self-confidence indeed was so great that you had no need to be consistent at all and yet never ceased to be in the right."
"Hence the world was for me divided into three parts: one in which I, the slave, lived under laws that had been invented only for me and which I could, I did not know why, never completely comply with; then a second world, which was infinitely remote from mine, in which you lived, concerned with government, with the issuing of orders and with the annoyance about their not being obeyed; and finally a third world where everybody else lived happily and free from orders and from having to obey. I was continually in disgrace; either I obeyed your orders, and that was a disgrace, for they applied, after all, only to me; or I was defiant, and that was a disgrace too, for how could I presume to defy you; or I could not obey because I did not, for instance, have your strength, your appetite, your skill, although you expected it of me as a matter of course; this was the greatest disgrace of all."
(https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#8-the-trauma-of-eight-day-circumcision)8. The trauma of eight-day circumcision
Above all, the Abrahamic father is the executionneer of the commandment given to Abraham: "As soon as he is eight days old, every one of your males, generation after generation, must be circumcised" (Genesis 17:12). Had Freud preserved his original insight into the psychological damage of sexual abuse on children, he might have eventually reflected on the impact of neonatal circumcision. But he has been rather discreet on the subject — though he didn't have his own sons circumcised. He broaches it in his latest books, but only in the context of anthropological speculations. In New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, he speculated that "during the human family's primeval period, castration used to be carried out by a jealous and cruel father upon growing boys," and that "circumcision, which so frequently plays a part in puberty rites among primitive people, is a clearly recognizable relic of it."[25] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_25) Freud went further in Moses and Monotheism:
"Circumcision is a symbolical substitute of castration, a punishment which the primeval father dealt his sons long ago out of the awfulness of his power, and whosoever accepted this symbol showed by so doing that he was ready to submit to his father's will, although it was at the cost of a painful sacrifice."[26] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_26) Interestingly, Freud originally got that idea from Sandor Ferenczi, who had written in an article that greatly impressed Freud, that circumcision is "a means of inspiring terror, a symbol of castration by the father."[27] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_27)

But we note that in the above quotations Freud isn't referring to Jewish circumcision of eight-day-old children, only to circumcision of adolescent boys. Given the Jewish undercurrent in Freud's intellectual biography, it is reasonable to assume that his inability to deal with the issue of Jewish neonatal circumcision is connected to his refusal to face the devastating reality of child abuse. Isn't the first abuse suffered by every Jewish male from the part of his parents and kins, circumcision on the eighth day? It physically impresses on every Jew, and on all Jews collectively, the traumatic domination of Yahweh and his Covenant.

The psychological impact of neonatal circumcision, performed without anesthesia and causing unbearable pain, has been studied by Professor Ronald Goldman, author of Circumcision, the Hidden Trauma. His research shows a disturbance in the mother-child bonding process after the ritual.[28] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_28) Testimonies from "Mothers Who Observed Circumcision" (http://www.circumcision.org/mothers.htm) show that the mothers' guilt is also part of the equation. Here is one, from Elizabeth Pickard-Ginsburg:
"I don't feel I can recover from it. [...] We had this beautiful baby boy and seven beautiful days and this beautiful rhythm starting, and it was like something had been shattered! ... When he was first born there was a tie with my young one, my newborn. And when the circumcision happened, in order to allow it I had to cut off the bond. I had to cut off my natural instincts, and in doing so I cut off a lot of feelings towards Jesse. I cut it off to repress the pain and to repress the natural instinct to stop the circumcision." The unnatural incestuous wish that Freud and his Jewish male disciples discovered in their repressed unconscious could perhaps be explained as a result of the inhibition in mother-child bonding caused by the trauma of neonatal circumcision. A trauma caused at this age has little chance to ever be brought back into consciousness and be healed. More research is perhaps needed on the possible link between Jewish circumcision and the fact, according to the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, that "the Jews are more subject to diseases of the nervous system than the other races and peoples among which they dwell."[29] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_29) Research done by sociologist Leo Srole in 1962 showed that the rate of neuroses and character disorders among Jews was about three times as high as among Catholics and Protestants.[30] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_30)

In The Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud describes "religion" — meaning essentially Christianity — as a "universal obsessional neurosis" which has for believers the merit that "their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one."[31] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_31) With a similar approach, Judaism can be described as a "collective sociopathy." This does not mean that "the Jews" are sociopaths, but rather that, in proportion to the degree of their identification as Jews, they are victims of a sociopathic mindset patterned from the Tanakh, "marked in their flesh" (impressed traumatically in their subconscious) by circumcision, and fuel by their elites with the paranoia of anti-Semitism. The difference between collective sociopathy and individual sociopathy is the same as between collective neurosis and individual neurosis according to Freud: participation in a collective sociopathic mentality allows members of the community to channel sociopathic tendencies toward the outside of the community, and to maintain inside a high degree of sociability.
Laurent Guyénot, Ph.D., is the author of From Yahweh to Zion: Jealous God, Chosen People, Promised Land ... Clash of Civilizations (https://www.amazon.com/Yahweh-Zion-Jealous-Promised-Civilizations/dp/0996143041/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=), 2018, and JFK-9/11: 50 years of Deep State, Progressive Press, 2014 (https://www.amazon.com/JFK-9-11-Years-Deep-State/dp/1615776397/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1523570387&sr=1-3&refinements=p_27%3ALaurent+Guyenot&dpID=513dR-sXcVL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch).

Notes:

[1] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_1) Jeffrey Masson, The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory, Farrar Strauss & Giroud, 1984.

[2] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_2) For instance, Nicolas Abraham and Maria Török, L'Écorce et le Noyau, Aubier-Flammarion, 1978.

[3] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_3) John Murray Cuddihy, The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity, Delta Book, 1974 (on archive.org), chapter 4, pp. 48-57.

[4] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_4) Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, vol. 1, The FormativeYears and the Great Discoveries, 1856-1900, Basic Books, 1953, p. 22, quoted by John Murray Cuddihy, The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity, Delta Book, 1974 (on archive.org), p. 24.

[5] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_5) Richard J. Bernstein, Freud and the Legacy of Moses, Cambridge UP, 1998, p. 1, on http://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/30962/sample/9780521630962web.pdf

[6] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_6) Sigmund Freud, "On Being of the B'nai B'rith," reprinted in Commentary, March 1946, pp. 23-24, quoted in Peter Homans, The Ability to Mourn: Disillusionment and the Social Origins of Psychoanalysis, University of Chicago Press, 1989, p. 71.

[7] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_7) Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, Invisible Loyalties: Reciprocity in Intergenerational Family Therapy, Harper & Row, 1973.

[8] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_8) Dennis B Klein, Jewish origins of the psychoanalytic movement, The University of Chicago press, 1985, p. xi.

[9] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_9) Andrew Heinze, Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century, Princeton University Press, 2004.

[10] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_10) Moshe Gresser, Dual Allegiance: Freud as a Modern Jew, State University of New York Press, 1994, p. 138; Cuddihy, The Ordeal of Civility, op. cit., p. 77.

[11] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_11) Karl Abraham, "On Neurotic Exogamy," in Clinical Papers and Essays on Psycho-analysis: The Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, ed. Hilda Abraham, trans. Hilda Abraham and D. R. Elison, Basic Books, 1955, p. 48-50.

[12] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_12) Leon Pinsker, Auto-Emancipation: An Appeal to His People by a Russian Jew, 1882, on www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/pinsker.html (http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/pinsker.html)

[13] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_13) Myron Sharaf, Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich, St. Martin's Press, 1983, retold by Gilad Atzmon in Being in Time: A Post-Political Manifesto, Skyscraper, 2017, pp. 93-94.

[14] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_14) Andrew Heinze, Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century, Princeton University Press, 2006, pp. 3, 352.

[15] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_15) George Prochnik, Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam, and the Purpose of American Psychology, Other Press, 2006, p. 422.

[16] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_16) Dennis B. Klein, Jewish origins of the psychoanalytic movement, The University of Chicago press, 1985, p. 74; Alain Lelouch, "Freud (1856-1939) au B'nai B'rith," on https://www.bbfrance.org/Freud-1856-1939-au-B-nai-B-rith_a24.html

[17] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_17) Richard Webster, Why Freud was Wrong, Orwell Edition, 2005.

[18] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_18) Henri F. Ellenberger, The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry, Basic Books, 1981, p. vii.

[19] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_19) André Gide, Œuvres complètes, Gallimard, 1933, tome VIII, p. 571.

[20] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_20) Kevin MacDonald, The Culture of Critique: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements, Praeger, 1998, p. 124.

[21] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_21) Philip Roth, Operation Shylock: A Confession, Simon & Schuster, 1993, p. 110.

[22] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_22) Theodor Lessing, La Haine de soi: ou le refus d'être juif (1930), Pocket, 2011, pp. 68.

[23] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_23) Jean-Pierre Fresco, "Kafka et le complexe d'Isaac ," Le Coq-Héron, 2003/2 (n° 173), pp. 108-120, on www.cairn.info/revue-le-coq-heron-2003-2-page-108.htm (http://www.cairn.info/revue-le-coq-heron-2003-2-page-108.htm)

[24] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_24) "Foreword" in Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory (1982), University of Washington Press, 2011.

[25] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_25) Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1933), Hogarth Press, 1964, p. 86.

[26] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_26) Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism, Hogarth Press, 1939, p. 192.

[27] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_27) Sandor Ferenczi, Further Contributions to the Theory and Technique of Psycho-Analysis (1926), Hogart Press, 1999, p. 228.

[28] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_28) Ronald Goldman, Circumcision, the Hidden Trauma: How an American Cultural Practice Affects Infants and Ultimately Us All, Vanguard, 1997.

[29] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_29) "Nervous diseases," by Joseph Jacobs and Maurice Fishberg, on www.jewishency (http://www.jewishency)
clopedia.com/articles/11446-nervous-diseases.

[30] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_30) Leo Srole, Mental Health in the Metropolis: The Midtown Manhattan Study, McGraw-Hill, 1962, New York UP, 1978; Nathan Agi, "The Neurotic Jew," The Beacon, December 5, 2011.

[31] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_31) Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion, Hogarth Press, 1928 , p. 76.




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[petra]

"I don't feel I can recover from it. [...] We had this beautiful baby boy and seven beautiful days and this beautiful rhythm starting, and it was like something had been shattered! ... When he was first born there was a tie with my young one, my newborn. And when the circumcision happened, in order to allow it I had to cut off the bond. I had to cut off my natural instincts, and in doing so I cut off a lot of feelings towards Jesse. I cut it off to repress the pain and to repress the natural instinct to stop the circumcision."

Same kind of thing happened when my child got vaccinated. He looked at me like I had betrayed him and I remember feeling like I'd been "set up" (in more ways than one...)

[Delight]

... continued from above:


5. Denial, projection, inversion
I suggest that Freud's abandon of the seduction theory and its cover-up by the Oedipus complex were motivated, half-unconsciously at least, by Freud's loyalty, not only to his father, but to his Jewish community. In the 1890s, Freud's clientele was drawn exclusively from the Jewish middle class. Imagine if Freud's seduction theory had earned him the recognition he craved for: although he disguised the identity of his patients in his case studies, it would not have been long before his work was attacked, not just as "Jewish science," but as evidence of the depravity of Jewish mores.


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However, I don't think Freud reasoned consciously in this manner. As he was turning a blind eye on the incestuous sexuality of his patients' families, his blindness was not fake, but psychologically constrained; it is the blindness that characterizes Jewishness. At the core, Jewishness is the conviction, deeply internalized from the earliest age, of the superiority of Jews over non-Jews — "chosenness". Anything contradicting this superiority creates a cognitive dissonance which is overcome by denial.

Denial means projection: to protect the dirty secret of child abuse in Jewish families — including his own — , Freud projected an imaginary repressed infantile perversion on all mankind. Projection, in turn, means inversion: Freud's close disciple Otto Rank claimed that Jews had a more primitive, and therefore more healthy sexuality than Gentiles (Rank, "The Essence of Judaism," 1905). Freudians and Freudo-Marxists have systematically denounced Christian civilization as suffering from sexual repression. According to Wilhelm Reich, anti-Semitism is itself a symptom of sexual frustration, and could be cured by sexual liberation (The Mass Psychology of Fascism, 1934) — an improvement from Leo Pinsker's theory that Judeophobia was a "hereditary" and "incurable" "disease transmitted for two thousand years."[12] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_12) In order to understand the psychological background of this Reichian messianic mission to cure the Christian West, and in order to see more clearly the projective nature of the psychoanalytical theory of repression, it is helpful to know the personal story of Wilhelm Reich, which reads as a caricature of Freud's: At ten years old, when he realized that his mother was having an affair with his tutor, the young Wilhelm thought of blackmailing his mother into having sex with him. Eventually, he confided in his father about his mother's adultery. In 1910, after a period of beatings from his father, his mother committed suicide, for which Reich blamed himself.[13] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_13)

One of the most puzzling aspects of Jews' relationship with their host nations is its ambivalence — patterned on biblical "history": within Jewish thinking, saving the nations and destroying them are not two sides of the same coin, but one and the same, because what nations are supposed to be cured of is their very identity (their gods, in biblical terms). According to Andrew Heinze, author of Jews and the American Soul, Jews have shaped "American ideas about the mind and soul" with the preoccupation "to purge the evils they associated with Christian civilization."[14] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_14) It really started with Freud. In September 1909, invited to give a series of lectures in New England, Freud jokingly asked his companions, Sandor Ferenczi and Carl Jung: "Don't they know we're bringing them the plague?"[15] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_15) An extraordinary statement for a medical doctor pretending to have found a "cure" for neurosis. And a prophetic one: Freudism became a justification for a sexual "liberation" that can be seen in retrospect as a massive sexual abuse of the youth.


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Sigmund's grandson Sir Clement Freud, British MP, pedophile, rapist, and suspected murderer of a three-year-old girl


6. B'nai B'rith and the road to fame
By a stunning coincidence, Freud was initiated into the recently founded B'nai B'rith in September 1897, precisely the time of his conversion to the dogma of infantile sexuality. Dennis Klein writes in chapter 3 of his book ("The Prefiguring of the Psychoanalytic Movement: Freud and the B'nai B'rith") that after the bitter disappointment of being denied professorship, "Freud filled, through the B'nai B'rith, the professional as well as the social vacuum in his life." He was a very active member attending almost every meeting during the first decade, his most productive years. He recruited at least three members and in 1901 was a founding father of a second lodge in Vienna, the Harmony Lodge. The same year, he gave a talk on "Goals and Purposes of the B'nai B'rith Societies." Freud often presented his work to the B'nai B'rith before publishing it. In this respect, writes Klein, the Viennese B'nai B'rith lodge "was a precursor of the movement of psychoanalysis." "After his death in 1939, the B'nai B'rith of Vienna continued, relentlessly, the support granted during his lifetime to the famous 'brother.'"[16] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_16)

To what extent were the B'nai B'rith masonic meetings influential in Freud's swing from the seduction theory to the Oedipus theory? No one can say. However, we can hold as fairly certain that Freud's membership in the B'nai B'rith was influential in his becoming one of the major intellectual stars and gurus of modernity.


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As a scientist, Freud was a failure, duped by his own unconscious and his unrealistic confidence that he could solve the human enigma by self-analysis alone. He was also an impostor who, in his published case studies, invented cures when they was none (as investigations into the real biographies of his patients have shown).[17] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_17) True, he was sometimes insightful. But the hagiographic image of Freud as the "discoverer of the unconscious" is totally unwarranted, as Henri Ellenberger has shown in his classic study, The Discovery of the Unconscious:
"throughout the nineteenth century there existed a well-rounded system of dynamic psychiatry. ... The basic features of the first dynamic psychiatry were the use of hypnosis as an approach to the unconscious mind, the interest in certain specific conditions called 'magnetic diseases,' the concept of a dual model of the mind with a conscious and an unconscious ego, the belief in the psychogenesis of many emotional and physical conditions, and the use of specific psychotherapeutic procedures; the therapeutic channel was seen as being the 'rapport' between hypnotist and patient. ... the cultural impact of the first dynamic psychiatry was far greater than is generally believed."[18] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_18) It could easily be argued that, in matters of psychology, every sensible thing that Freud said had been said before him, and that almost everything he said that hadn't been said before has been proven wrong.

So why did Freud become so famous? The long answer is that Freud benefited from the same kind of communication networking that produced many other Jewish intellectual "geniuses", and made French novelist André Gide comment in 1914 (in his diary) about "this tendency to constantly emphasize the Jew, ... this predisposition to recognizing in him talent, even genius"[19] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_19) The shorter answer to the question above is: B'nai B'rith. I will not suggest that the B'nai B'rith supported Freud's Oedipus theory because they saw its potential for the moral corruption of the West. Nor do I suggest that the B'nai B'rith and Freud conspired to ruin Western civilization with the pestilential idea of infantile sexuality. But I do suggest that, had Freud maintained his earlier conviction in the reality of the abuses suffered by his Jewish patients, he would not have received as much support.

To clarify this point, it is appropriate to recall a memorable demonstration of power by the B'nai B'rith, which has an obvious relevance to Freud's intellectual biography. In 1913, the B'nai B'rith created the Anti-Defamation League to save the life and the reputation of Leo Frank, the wealthy young president of the Atlanta chapter of B'nai B'rith, who was convicted of the rape and murder of Mary Phagan, a thirteen-year-old girl working in his pencil factory. The evidence for Frank's guilt was overwhelming, but tremendous financial resources were deployed for his legal defense — including false testimonies — and an intense publicity was orchestrated in the news media, with the New York Times devoting enormous coverage to the case. I quote from Ron Unz's article (http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-adl-in-american-society/):
"For almost two years, the nearly limitless funds deployed by Frank's supporters covered the costs of thirteen separate appeals on the state and federal levels, including to the U.S. Supreme Court, while the national media was used to endlessly vilify Georgia's system of justice in the harshest possible terms. Naturally, this soon generated a local reaction, and during this period outraged Georgians began denouncing the wealthy Jews who were spending such enormous sums to subvert the local criminal justice system. ... All appeals were ultimately rejected and Frank's execution date for the rape and murder of the young girl finally drew near. But just days before he was scheduled to leave office, Georgia's outgoing governor commuted Frank's sentence, provoking an enormous storm of popular protest, especially since he was the legal partner of Frank's chief defense lawyer, an obvious conflict of interest. ... A few weeks later, a group of Georgia citizens stormed Frank's prison farm, abducting and hanging him, with Frank becoming the first and only Jew lynched in American history."
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Mary Phagan


Thanks to the mobilization of the Jewish power elite — "as one man" (http://www.unz.com/article/israel-as-one-man/) — , Leo Frank has been turned from a convicted pedophile and child murderer into a martyr of anti-Semitism. We don't know what Freud thought of the case, but there is an obvious resonance between his "assault on truth" and the B'nai B'rith's. If young Mary Phagan had visited a Freudian psychoanalyst before her atrocious death, and complained of her boss' sexual overtures, she probably would have been told about her own "penis envy"; had she protested, she would have been told that her protest proved her sexual repression — exactly as happened to Freud's patient Dora, Ida Bauer by her real name, an eighteen-year-old girl suffering from hysterical symptoms.[20] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_20)

7. The Isaac complex (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#7-the-isaac-complex)
The son's repressed wish to murder his father is perhaps Freud's most fertile intuition. The problem is with Freud's abusive generalization. Only the neurotic son of a destructive and manipulative father has a repressed wish to "kill the father." Freud discovered this impulse in himself, and, confounding his self-analysis for a scientific quest of universal laws, he projected it on all mankind. But the fact that Freud's Jewish disciples all discovered the same impulse, and that Freudism became so widely accepted by Jews, suggests that Freud's generalization was not without merit. It only suffered from the tendency of Jewish intellectuals to project Jewish issues on all humankind. The child's repressed wish to kill his father is not universally human, but may be characteristically Jewish. For the Jewish father is the guardian of Jewishness and the representative of the Jewish god. And every Jew aspires in the depth of his soul to free himself from Yahweh, the archetypal abusive and castrating Father. As Philip Roth's character Smilesburger says in Operation Shylock: "To appeal to a crazy, violent father, and for three thousand years, that is what it is to be a crazy Jew!"[21] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_21) And so the secret wish to murder the Jewish father is also a secret wish for the death of the Jewish god. It is therefore identical with the so-called "Jewish self-hatred" that Theodor Lessing saw as affecting every Jew without exception: "There is not a single man of Jewish blood in whom cannot be detected at least the beginning of Jewish self-hatred."[22] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_22)

By choosing a Greek myth as a metaphor for his theory, Freud was projecting on Gentiles a Jewish problem. Had he recognized the Jewish overtone of the complex, he might have called it the "Isaac complex," since Isaac is the son that Abraham was willing to slaughter.

The expression "Isaac complex" has actually been used by French heterodox psychoanalyst Jean-Pierre Fresco (https://www.cairn.info/revue-le-coq-heron-2003-2-page-108.htm), who defines it as "the overall consequences in the son's psyche of a father perceived as psychologically menacing, destroying or murderous."[23] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_23) Fresco calls such a father "Abrahamic." He draws his insight from a reading of Franz Kafka's autobiographical and posthumously published Letter to the father, in which Kafka describes the devastating effect on his personality of a father whose means of education were "abuse, threats, irony, spiteful laughter, and — oddly enough — self-pity." Kafka also wrote to his father: "My writing was all about you, all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast."

Kafka's major novels refer autobiographically to his relationship with his father and its deleterious psychic consequences. The Metamorphosis tells of Gregor Samsa's transformation into a repulsive insect chased and killed by his father, whose incestuous violence is suggested in the scene where the father attacks his son from behind with a cane, tapping his feet and "pushing out sibilants, like a wild man." After the death of Gregor appears his sister Grete, his double in the other sex, the homosexualized son. In The Verdict, Georg (anagram of Gregor) has just become engaged with Frieda Brandenfeld (same initials as Felice Bauer, the woman that Kafka had just started dating), and announces it to his father. The father opposes a terrible prohibition to this project of marriage, accompanied by extreme narcissistic violence. The paternal prohibition of emancipation through marriage is linked to an incestuous domination that becomes clear when Georg submissively proposes to the father to exchange beds. Fresco also finds the psychic trace of the father in Kafka's novel The Trial, whose narrator Joseph K. was arrested without knowing who slandered him nor who will judge him. According to Fresco, this uncomprehensible and omnipotent slanderer-accuser-judge is "the palimpsest of an archaic Abrahamic father unconsciously introjected as an archaic and sadistic superego, and turned into an inner persecutor."

I find it very significant that Kafka — by his own admission — drew his inspiration from his experience as the son of a psychopathic father, while his Jewish literary critics consider him quintessentially Jewish. "By common consent," said Harold Bloom, "Kafka is not only the strongest modern Jewish writer, but the Jewish writer."[24] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_24) (Hence Israel's decade-long legal battle (https://www.france24.com/en/20190807-israel-gets-missing-kafka-papers-ending-long-legal-battle) to secure his autograph manuscripts as national treasure.) Who is right, of Kafka and his critics? Does his genius come from his being Jewish, or from his having a psychopathic father? Obviously, it is impossible to distinguish the two factors, because the psychopathic father happens to be Jewish; he is, in Fresco's terms, the typical "Abrahamic father." But are not all Jewish fathers Abrahamic in the measure of their Jewishness? Is not the Jewish god a psychopathic father — and the psychopathic father a Jewish god?

Kafka perceived his sadistic father as a cruel divinity, whose laws were totally arbitrary and yet unquestionable, just like the Jewish god: "for me as a child everything you called out to me was positively a heavenly commandment," he wrote in his Letter to the Father. "From your armchair you ruled the world. Your opinion was correct, every other was mad, wild, meshugge, not normal. Your self-confidence indeed was so great that you had no need to be consistent at all and yet never ceased to be in the right."
"Hence the world was for me divided into three parts: one in which I, the slave, lived under laws that had been invented only for me and which I could, I did not know why, never completely comply with; then a second world, which was infinitely remote from mine, in which you lived, concerned with government, with the issuing of orders and with the annoyance about their not being obeyed; and finally a third world where everybody else lived happily and free from orders and from having to obey. I was continually in disgrace; either I obeyed your orders, and that was a disgrace, for they applied, after all, only to me; or I was defiant, and that was a disgrace too, for how could I presume to defy you; or I could not obey because I did not, for instance, have your strength, your appetite, your skill, although you expected it of me as a matter of course; this was the greatest disgrace of all."
(https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#8-the-trauma-of-eight-day-circumcision)8. The trauma of eight-day circumcision
Above all, the Abrahamic father is the executionneer of the commandment given to Abraham: "As soon as he is eight days old, every one of your males, generation after generation, must be circumcised" (Genesis 17:12). Had Freud preserved his original insight into the psychological damage of sexual abuse on children, he might have eventually reflected on the impact of neonatal circumcision. But he has been rather discreet on the subject — though he didn't have his own sons circumcised. He broaches it in his latest books, but only in the context of anthropological speculations. In New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, he speculated that "during the human family's primeval period, castration used to be carried out by a jealous and cruel father upon growing boys," and that "circumcision, which so frequently plays a part in puberty rites among primitive people, is a clearly recognizable relic of it."[25] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_25) Freud went further in Moses and Monotheism:
"Circumcision is a symbolical substitute of castration, a punishment which the primeval father dealt his sons long ago out of the awfulness of his power, and whosoever accepted this symbol showed by so doing that he was ready to submit to his father's will, although it was at the cost of a painful sacrifice."[26] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_26) Interestingly, Freud originally got that idea from Sandor Ferenczi, who had written in an article that greatly impressed Freud, that circumcision is "a means of inspiring terror, a symbol of castration by the father."[27] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_27)

But we note that in the above quotations Freud isn't referring to Jewish circumcision of eight-day-old children, only to circumcision of adolescent boys. Given the Jewish undercurrent in Freud's intellectual biography, it is reasonable to assume that his inability to deal with the issue of Jewish neonatal circumcision is connected to his refusal to face the devastating reality of child abuse. Isn't the first abuse suffered by every Jewish male from the part of his parents and kins, circumcision on the eighth day? It physically impresses on every Jew, and on all Jews collectively, the traumatic domination of Yahweh and his Covenant.

The psychological impact of neonatal circumcision, performed without anesthesia and causing unbearable pain, has been studied by Professor Ronald Goldman, author of Circumcision, the Hidden Trauma. His research shows a disturbance in the mother-child bonding process after the ritual.[28] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_28) Testimonies from "Mothers Who Observed Circumcision" (http://www.circumcision.org/mothers.htm) show that the mothers' guilt is also part of the equation. Here is one, from Elizabeth Pickard-Ginsburg:
"I don't feel I can recover from it. [...] We had this beautiful baby boy and seven beautiful days and this beautiful rhythm starting, and it was like something had been shattered! ... When he was first born there was a tie with my young one, my newborn. And when the circumcision happened, in order to allow it I had to cut off the bond. I had to cut off my natural instincts, and in doing so I cut off a lot of feelings towards Jesse. I cut it off to repress the pain and to repress the natural instinct to stop the circumcision." The unnatural incestuous wish that Freud and his Jewish male disciples discovered in their repressed unconscious could perhaps be explained as a result of the inhibition in mother-child bonding caused by the trauma of neonatal circumcision. A trauma caused at this age has little chance to ever be brought back into consciousness and be healed. More research is perhaps needed on the possible link between Jewish circumcision and the fact, according to the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, that "the Jews are more subject to diseases of the nervous system than the other races and peoples among which they dwell."[29] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_29) Research done by sociologist Leo Srole in 1962 showed that the rate of neuroses and character disorders among Jews was about three times as high as among Catholics and Protestants.[30] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_30)

In The Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud describes "religion" — meaning essentially Christianity — as a "universal obsessional neurosis" which has for believers the merit that "their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one."[31] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnote_31) With a similar approach, Judaism can be described as a "collective sociopathy." This does not mean that "the Jews" are sociopaths, but rather that, in proportion to the degree of their identification as Jews, they are victims of a sociopathic mindset patterned from the Tanakh, "marked in their flesh" (impressed traumatically in their subconscious) by circumcision, and fuel by their elites with the paranoia of anti-Semitism. The difference between collective sociopathy and individual sociopathy is the same as between collective neurosis and individual neurosis according to Freud: participation in a collective sociopathic mentality allows members of the community to channel sociopathic tendencies toward the outside of the community, and to maintain inside a high degree of sociability.
Laurent Guyénot, Ph.D., is the author of From Yahweh to Zion: Jealous God, Chosen People, Promised Land ... Clash of Civilizations (https://www.amazon.com/Yahweh-Zion-Jealous-Promised-Civilizations/dp/0996143041/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=), 2018, and JFK-9/11: 50 years of Deep State, Progressive Press, 2014 (https://www.amazon.com/JFK-9-11-Years-Deep-State/dp/1615776397/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1523570387&sr=1-3&refinements=p_27%3ALaurent+Guyenot&dpID=513dR-sXcVL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch).

Notes:

[1] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_1) Jeffrey Masson, The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory, Farrar Strauss & Giroud, 1984.

[2] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_2) For instance, Nicolas Abraham and Maria Török, L'Écorce et le Noyau, Aubier-Flammarion, 1978.

[3] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_3) John Murray Cuddihy, The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity, Delta Book, 1974 (on archive.org), chapter 4, pp. 48-57.

[4] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_4) Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, vol. 1, The FormativeYears and the Great Discoveries, 1856-1900, Basic Books, 1953, p. 22, quoted by John Murray Cuddihy, The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity, Delta Book, 1974 (on archive.org), p. 24.

[5] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_5) Richard J. Bernstein, Freud and the Legacy of Moses, Cambridge UP, 1998, p. 1, on http://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/30962/sample/9780521630962web.pdf

[6] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_6) Sigmund Freud, "On Being of the B'nai B'rith," reprinted in Commentary, March 1946, pp. 23-24, quoted in Peter Homans, The Ability to Mourn: Disillusionment and the Social Origins of Psychoanalysis, University of Chicago Press, 1989, p. 71.

[7] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_7) Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, Invisible Loyalties: Reciprocity in Intergenerational Family Therapy, Harper & Row, 1973.

[8] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_8) Dennis B Klein, Jewish origins of the psychoanalytic movement, The University of Chicago press, 1985, p. xi.

[9] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_9) Andrew Heinze, Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century, Princeton University Press, 2004.

[10] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_10) Moshe Gresser, Dual Allegiance: Freud as a Modern Jew, State University of New York Press, 1994, p. 138; Cuddihy, The Ordeal of Civility, op. cit., p. 77.

[11] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_11) Karl Abraham, "On Neurotic Exogamy," in Clinical Papers and Essays on Psycho-analysis: The Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, ed. Hilda Abraham, trans. Hilda Abraham and D. R. Elison, Basic Books, 1955, p. 48-50.

[12] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_12) Leon Pinsker, Auto-Emancipation: An Appeal to His People by a Russian Jew, 1882, on www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/pinsker.html (http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/pinsker.html)

[13] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_13) Myron Sharaf, Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich, St. Martin's Press, 1983, retold by Gilad Atzmon in Being in Time: A Post-Political Manifesto, Skyscraper, 2017, pp. 93-94.

[14] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_14) Andrew Heinze, Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century, Princeton University Press, 2006, pp. 3, 352.

[15] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_15) George Prochnik, Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam, and the Purpose of American Psychology, Other Press, 2006, p. 422.

[16] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_16) Dennis B. Klein, Jewish origins of the psychoanalytic movement, The University of Chicago press, 1985, p. 74; Alain Lelouch, "Freud (1856-1939) au B'nai B'rith," on https://www.bbfrance.org/Freud-1856-1939-au-B-nai-B-rith_a24.html

[17] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_17) Richard Webster, Why Freud was Wrong, Orwell Edition, 2005.

[18] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_18) Henri F. Ellenberger, The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry, Basic Books, 1981, p. vii.

[19] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_19) André Gide, Œuvres complètes, Gallimard, 1933, tome VIII, p. 571.

[20] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_20) Kevin MacDonald, The Culture of Critique: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements, Praeger, 1998, p. 124.

[21] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_21) Philip Roth, Operation Shylock: A Confession, Simon & Schuster, 1993, p. 110.

[22] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_22) Theodor Lessing, La Haine de soi: ou le refus d'être juif (1930), Pocket, 2011, pp. 68.

[23] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_23) Jean-Pierre Fresco, "Kafka et le complexe d'Isaac ," Le Coq-Héron, 2003/2 (n° 173), pp. 108-120, on www.cairn.info/revue-le-coq-heron-2003-2-page-108.htm (http://www.cairn.info/revue-le-coq-heron-2003-2-page-108.htm)

[24] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_24) "Foreword" in Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory (1982), University of Washington Press, 2011.

[25] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_25) Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1933), Hogarth Press, 1964, p. 86.

[26] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_26) Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism, Hogarth Press, 1939, p. 192.

[27] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_27) Sandor Ferenczi, Further Contributions to the Theory and Technique of Psycho-Analysis (1926), Hogart Press, 1999, p. 228.

[28] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_28) Ronald Goldman, Circumcision, the Hidden Trauma: How an American Cultural Practice Affects Infants and Ultimately Us All, Vanguard, 1997.

[29] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_29) "Nervous diseases," by Joseph Jacobs and Maurice Fishberg, on www.jewishency (http://www.jewishency)
clopedia.com/articles/11446-nervous-diseases.

[30] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_30) Leo Srole, Mental Health in the Metropolis: The Midtown Manhattan Study, McGraw-Hill, 1962, New York UP, 1978; Nathan Agi, "The Neurotic Jew," The Beacon, December 5, 2011.

[31] (https://www.unz.com/article/freud-sexual-abuse-and-cover-up/#footnoteref_31) Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion, Hogarth Press, 1928 , p. 76.




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