[Membroj] Karl Kraus, Sigmund Freud, Zamenhof 34-- not a love triangle

[Ralph Dumain]

Analysis of linguistic expression yield, according to the author (and 
Kraus, it appears), this preposterous specimen of psychoanalysis:

"Further associations provide the following connections. The patient 
is interested in a young woman who is under treatment by Dr. 
Zamenhof, an opthmamologist and the inventor of Esperanto. It 
suddenly occurs to him that Zamenhof is courting the lady. This is a 
wholly unmotivated idea, which betrays his latent mistrust and 
jealousy of his lady friend. Should he catch her in an act of 
unfaithfulness, it would mean her death. The death of his love! 
[Friedhof!] The name of Zamenhof generates further associations. The 
patient suffers from a fear of sterility. He had inspected his own 
semen and found live spermatozoa. But he is a skeptic. He may have 
been mistaken, and his Samen-hof [semen-court] is only a Friedhof 
[cemetery]. Then he thinks of the possibility that this young woman 
might be pregnant, which he would find economically undesirable."

in Thomas Szasz, Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's criticism of psychoanalysis 
and psychiatry, p. 118-9.
http://books.google.com/books?id=qXApVDVKWZUC&pg=PA118&dq=zamenhof+Judaism&lr=#v=onepage&q=zamenhof&f=false

PS:

Zamenhof says: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
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