I get the appeal on its surface. The public seems obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, and the next impulse almost inevitably is Freud (insert "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" reference here).
Freud's personal life has long been the subject of rumor and speculation. Most Freud scholars now believe he had a sexual affair with his wife s younger sister Minna Bernays, who lived in the Freud house for more than 40 years. But I believe the sexual part of their relationship was over by the early first decade of the 20th century, if not before. There are rumors of sexual affairs with other women (while Freud taught that women should be passive and submissive to their husbands in order to be healthy, and he himself married a woman like that, he was drawn all his life to intelligent, vibrant and curious women, including his youngest daughter. But I am not convinced there is evidence for sexual relationships with anyone except Minna. The blurb says it is set in the early 20th century, where the real sexual story lines would involve his then acolyte Carl Jung. who was a real player. Of course, there are a host of other fact-based problems with the proposed show (Freud was not really interested in crime fighting, and science has not been kind to most of his theories), but there is no need for facts to get in the way of good television, and the project here does have a good pedigree. On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Bob Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: > The pioneering psychologist is portrayed as the first criminal profiler in > *Freud: > The Secret Casebook*, with Frank Spotnitz (*The X-Files*) and Gareth > Neame (*Downton Abbey*) among the execs... no takers in the US or > furriner market... > > THR<http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sigmund-freud-crime-drama-development-696702>(link) > > B > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
