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

[Ralph Dumain]

More on Zamenhof can be found on p. 120. It's weird enough, you 
should read it for yourself.

http://books.google.com/books?id=qXApVDVKWZUC&pg=PA118&dq=zamenhof+Judaism&lr=#v=onepage&q=zamenhof&f=false

At 06:43 PM 10/25/2009, Ralph Dumain wrote:
>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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