‘His book includes at least one Irish joke, which Freud (above) considered very interesting. It’s an old joke, from the 19th century. And it must be said that, while few witticisms remain funny after Freud has analysed them, this one was struggling even before it reached the couch.’ >full text (c) THE IRISH TIMES
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The Full Irish, Freudian Style
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Ireland, jokes, national stereotypes, Sigmund Freud, Stereotyping on 18 February 2014 by delclemFreud’s Life & Legacy – in a Comic
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, biography, comics, graphic nonfiction, Psychoanalysis, review, Sigmund Freud, Vienna on 16 February 2014 by delclem
“In recent years, the comic book genre has been applied to a wealth of graphic nonfiction for grownups, ranging from famous biographies to philosophy, but nowhere does the genre shine more exquisitely than in Freud — a magnificent biography-as-graphic-novel of the founding father of psychoanalysis by Swiss-born writer, economist, historian, and psychoanalyst Corinne Maier, illustrated by celebrated French cartoonist Anne Simon.”>full review (c) brainpickings.org 2014
“Inward-Looking Portraits”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, exhibition, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Lucian Freud, Sigmund Freud, Vienna on 22 December 2013 by delclem
The Lucian Freud exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum was one of the highlights of the autumn 2013 exhibition season. Those who have not yet done so are well advised to check it out before 12 January. It’s worth it! >Text (a bit odd;) & album with images (c) wieninternational.at 2013 Also see another text posted earlier.
The Vienna of 1913
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1913, Austria, Hitler, Sigmund Freud, Stalin, Tito, Vienna on 20 April 2013 by delclem
A century ago, the city of Vienna played host to Hitler,
Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin.”
>full text with more photos & a map (c) BBC, 2013
>audio file (interview with Charles Emmerson & Dardis McNamee)
(the same facts are also mentioned in the German 1913 book by Florian Illies)
Cronenberg & Mortensen do Freud
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, C. G. Jung, Canada, David Cronenberg, Fin-de-siècle, Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, Vienna, Viggo Mortensen on 7 November 2011 by delclemViggo Mortensen replaced Christoph Waltz when it came to play Sigmund Freud in David Cronenberg’s new film A Dangerous Method (2011)
> Article on “Freuds movie treatments”.
Freud’s Cocaine Years
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, London, Lucian Freud, Sigmund Freud, Vienna on 24 July 2011 by delclem
> On April 21, 1884, a 28-year-old researcher in the field now called neuroscience sat down at the cluttered desk of his cramped room in Vienna General Hospital and composed a letter to his fiancée, Martha Bernays, telling her of his recent studies: “I have been reading about cocaine, the effective ingredient of coca leaves,” Sigmund Freud wrote, “which some Indian tribes chew in order to make themselves resistant to privation and fatigue.” < . READ MORE >
PS. On 20 July 2011, Freud´s grandson Lucian, a prominent British painter,
died at the age of 88 > OBITUARY > SLIDESHOW
delirium clemens 