"In the Freud Archives" [.]

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__ one patient of Anna Freud's... on her way to treatment took off her lipstick
__ Fliess had developed a bizarre theory of the nasal origin of various gastrointestinal, neurological, and (above all) sexual disorders, which he treated by the application of cocaine to the nasal membranes...

__ "I cannot lie to him, and don't forget my age. It does not allow such manipulations."
__ "With particular finesse, under the guise of a special favor, she made me the victim of an ambivalence which must have dated far back in our relationship."

__ Masson: That is the worst thing that analysis has left the world: the notion that there is no reality, that there are only individual experiences of it.

__ Freud: He took pleasure in his own speech, in his own thoughts, yes, even in insignificant indifferent actions of everyday life, and was convinced that no one could perform them as well as he. Everything he said and thought possessed a plasticity, a warmth, a quality of importance, which was meant to conceal the lack of deeper substance.
__ "What bothered me about Jeff was that he seemed to be courting the favor of anyone who could do anything for him - and in a way that was so open that it had a kind of breathtaking honesty. .. it not only made me distrust him as an observer but revealed a vein of immaturity"
__ "Eissler betrayed him by suddenly looking at him and seeing what he was. That's a fatal sin."
__ O'Flaherty: "Building is interesting, because it's ultimately impossible, I suppose, but killing is boring. It's easy to see through something .. but that doesn't take very long...Killing may be amusing while it lasts, but... it doesn't solve the problem of boredom."

__ remarkable freedom from self-justification
__ so animated by a sense of duty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Gardiner

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