On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 08:20:05 -0800, Christopher Green wrote:
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.
See the following article which reports that Freud smoked during his
sessions (Raymond de Sassure commented on the association of
the therapy session with tobacco smoke; the "Dora" case, where
Dora had difficulty breathing and complained about Freud's smoking --
see section II on page 165):
Wilson, S. (2002). Dying for a Smoke: Freudian Addiction and the
Joy of Consumption. Angelaki: Journal Of The Theoretical Humanities,
7(2), 161-173. doi:10.1080/0969725022000046242
Given that Freud claimed to smoke 20 cigars per day, it seems unlikely
that he would stop smoking during his sessions (the rest of the article
points out what a powerful addiction smoking was for Freud; other
sources make similar notes).
-Mike Palij
New York University
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