On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:59:42 -0800, michael sylvester wrote:
But wouldn't he have asked for some good cigars when he
lectured at Clark?
Possibly, but there is a problem with quality and preferences.
One might like to smoke or drink what one is familiar with and
something that is considered to be of outstanding quality
(e.g., Cuban cigars in the 20th century, French cognac as
a drink, etc.) might taste unpleasant simply because one is
unused to it. The phrase "an acquired taste" is quite telling
because it referred to dedicated acquisition of preference for
something that was initially unpleasant. In the U.S. we do
not legally have access to Cuban cigars currently but Canadians
do. Which is better: the cigars grown and warped in Cuban
or the ex-pats from Cuban (i.e., Cuban who fled after
Castro and developed tobacco fields elsewhere)? A
person with extensive experience with cigars (an "aficionado")
might be able to tell but one's preferences could still over
rule perceived quality (e.g., Hennessy is a passable cognac
but Remy Martin might be considered more desirable; both
are mass market products and one might not compare them
to small batch cognacs). I leave to Canadian Tipsters (or
US Tipsters who smoke cigars while in Canada ;-) to pass
judgment.
Btw, were his therapy sessions smokeless? or puffless? If he
smoked while clients were=associating?
I'd bet that he puffed away. Albert Ellis, who produced a large
number of books, would write on index cards during therapy
sessions, splitting his attention between what the "client" was
saying and he was writing for his next publication.
-Mike Palij
New York University
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Subject: re: [tips] Freud and cigars
On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:07:25 -0800, michael sylvester wrote:
Does anyone know what type of cigars Freud smoked?
Were they Cuban cigars? And I have a follow-up question.
On the Cigar Aficionado website there is an article on Freud's
cigar usage. Quoting from that article:
at Clark?
|Obtaining good cigars, however, was no easy task. In
|turn-of-the-century Vienna, the Austrian government
|maintained strict control over the tobacco industry, and
|so Freud's cigar options were quite limited. According to
|The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929-1939: A Record of
|the Final Decade, translated by Michael Molnar, Freud
|usually smoked a cigar called a trabucco, which was small,
|relatively mild and considered the best of those produced
|by the Austrian monopoly. But he complained that they
|were inferior, preferring the Don Pedros and Reina Cubanas,
|which he could get during his vacations in the picturesque
|Bavarian town of Berchtesgaden. Freud also enjoyed
|Dutch Liliputanos, and when old age limited his travel,
|he frequently recruited friends and colleagues to bring
|him his favorite cigars from across the border.
http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/More-Than-a-Cigar_6051/p/2
(NOTE: one might want to examine a copy of "The Diary"
to verify the claims made above; the book is available in
snippet view on books.google.com but it does not seem
to contain the word "trabucco").
It is perhaps ironic that Freud was vacationed in
Berchtesgaden, the home of Nazi officials. Viewers of the
HBO series "Band of Brothers" may remember that at
the army was in a hurry to beat others to get to the "Eagles
Nest" in Berchtesgaden because Hitler had a mountaintop
home there (Damian Lewis as Major Richard Winters
comments on the absurdity of a man with a fear of heights
living in such a high place). However, there is some debate
aboot who got there first; see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kehlsteinhaus
And remember: sometimes a cigar is just a penis.
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