Bygone Lunar Flight: From Mųhammad to Goethe During the Age of Freud
The Dream Ladder: A Fairy Tale was indexed in The Letters of Sigmund Freud to Eduard Silberstein, 1871–1881 . . . It was initially referenced in the August 15, 1877 letter from the 21-year-old to the 7½-months younger Silberstein. . . .
Ginsburg has here compiled a fascinating analysis of an obscure fairy-tale story that the young Freud had read in the original German, complete with an English translation, and a comparison with the original German text.
Click here to read: “Bygone Lunar Flight . . .”
Lawrence M. Ginsburg is a retired lawyer with an interest in psychoanalytically-informed scholarship. He is the author or coauthor of thirty such contributions which have been published in North America, Europe and Israel. Several appear in French, German and Hebrew translations.
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July 31st, 2011 at 8:39 am
A wonderful maerchen. Reminds me as well of a series of tales my Oma would read to me from German, written in the late 19th Century by Hauff–tales told on a caravan nightly. My favorite, which didn’t have the same famous characters at all, but still resonated in my child’s mind, was Zwergnase, about a young boy who was bewitched by an evil witch until a princess, in the guise of a goose, helped him find the herb to undo the spell. Much more complex than that (a period in which his own parents didn’t recognize and rejected him), it’s a marvellous story, most likely known to European children as well.