On Feb 22, 2014, at 10:02 PM, "michael sylvester" <[email protected]> wrote: > > But wouldn't he have asked for some good cigars when he lectured at Clark? > Btw, were his therapy sessions smokeless? or puffless? If he smoked while > clients were=associating?
A surprisingly difficult question, actually. It is tempting to assume that there were none of the modern restrictions on smoking back then. However, in my photo of Freud's London therapy room, there is no ashtray by his chair at the top of the couch. (Of course, it may have been removed for various reasons in the 75+ years since he actually used it.) Also, it might not have been thought proper to smoke in the presence of ladies (which most of Freud's clients were) in early 20th-century Vienna. One of the reasons Titchener gave for not permitting women into The Experimentalists was that the men wanted to be able to smoke and speak "perfectly freely," if I recall the euphemism correctly. Chris ....... Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=34550 or send a blank email to leave-34550-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
