International Psychoanalysis

“The Sigmund Freud/Minna Bernays Romance: Fact or Fiction?” is the title of my article that will appear in the spring issue of the American Imago.  It is a reaction to an article published by Franz Maciejewski of Heidelberg, Germany, PhD in sociology and author of articles and books on applied analysis dealing with Little Hans, Freud, and other topics, in September of 2006 in the Frankfurter Rundschau and in English in the last issue of the Imago in 2006.Maciejewski’s posthumous birthday gift to Freud, on his 150th birthday in 2006, was a bombshell: he found a hotel log entry of August 13, 1898, in Freud’s handwriting, registering himself and his sister-in-law as “wife” to spend the night an an inn in Majola, a place not big enough to be listed in the 1952 Columbia Gazetteer, to spend the night in a double room. This was supposed to be the smoking gun evidence that Freud made love to Minna. It even convinced Peter Gay, who had fought this theory for years. (more…)