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Jean-Martin Charcot was a French neurologist and physician-incharge at the Salpêtrière, a vast Paris hospital devoted to disorders of the brain and nervous diseases. It would be difficult to overestimate Charcot’s international reputation and by the 1880s, at the height of his fame, medical men from all over the world flocked to attend his lectures and demonstrations, among them the young Sigmund Freud.
‘He [a fellow psychoanalyst] seems to have taken up with some woman again. Such practice is a deterrent from theory. When I have totally overcome my libido (in the common sense), I shall undertake to write a “Love-life of Mankind”. ’
Sigmund Freud, letter to Jung (1907)
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‘He seems to have …’ S. Freud, letter to C. G. Jung (19 September 1907), The Freud/Jung Letters ed. William McGuire (London: Hogarth and Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974) p. 89 (the fellow psychoanalyst in question was Max Eitingon, who was to become a Charter member of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society and who later founded the Palestine Psychoanalytic Society).
‘the result of ideas …’ Freud, ‘Charcot’ (1893), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud 24 vols (London: Hogarth, 1953–74) vol. III p. 22.
‘authors, journalists …’ Axel Munthe, The Story of San Michele (1929) (London: John Murray, 1975) p. 214; Munthe attended Charcot’s Tuesday lessons and gives a vivid account in a chapter entitled ‘La Salpêtrière’ (pp. 214–26).
can report having seen … and cite … Merskey, The Analysis of Hysteria, p. 21. a three-volume ‘iconography’ … D. Bourneville and P. Regnard, Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière 3 vols (Paris, 1876–80).
‘it is obvious …’ Freud, letter to Jung (11 December 1908), The Freud/Jung Letters, p. 187.
‘the genital thing’ Freud, ‘On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement’ (1914), Standard Edition vol. XIV p.14 (‘Charcot suddenly broke out with great animation: Mais, dans des cas pareils c’est toujours la chose génitale, toujours … toujours … toujours [But in this sort of case it’s always a question of the genitals — always, always, always]; and he crossed his arms over his stomach, hugging himself and jumping up and down on his toes several times in his own characteristically lively way.’).
‘Mummy!’ / ‘someone with … ’ J. M. Charcot, Salpêtrière lessons 1887–8, L’Hystèrie texts edited by E. Trillat (Toulouse: Privat, 1971) pp. 119, 113.
‘the genuineness … ’ / ‘an old surgeon …’ Freud, An Autobiographical Study (1924), Standard Edition vol. xx pp. 13,15.
‘when this had been … ’ Joseph Breuer, Studies on Hysteria (1893–5, in collaboration with Freud), Standard Edition vol. II p. 35.
‘hysterics suffer … ’ Breuer and Freud, ibid. p. 7.
‘by means of …’ Freud, ibid. p. 268.
‘no one … ’ Freud, ‘Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria’ (1901), Standard Edition vol. VII p. 113.
‘the indispensable … ’ Freud, letter to Jung (19 April 1908), The Freud/Jung Letters, pp. 140–1.
‘Sexual motive forces … ’ Freud, ‘The Aetiology of Hysteria’ (1896), Standard Edition vol. III p. 200.
‘It is not …’ Freud, ‘Further Remarks on the Neuro-Psychoses of Defence’ (1896), Standard Edition vol. III p. 164.
‘I have learned … ’ Freud, ‘My Views on the Part Played by Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses’ (1905), Standard Edition vol. VII p. 274.
‘Fortunately, for our therapy …’ Freud, letter to Jung (14 June 1907), The Freud/Jung Letters, p. 64. Charcot … Breuer … Chrobak … Freud, ‘On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement’, pp. 13–15.
‘aberration … ’ / ‘an instance … ’ Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905), Standard Edition vol. VII p. 231.
‘the royal road … ’ Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), Standard Edition vol. v p. 608.
‘I was going back …’ Freud, An Autobiographical Study, p. 24. ‘all women play on …’ Michèle Montrelay, L’ Ombre et le nom: sur la féminité (Paris: Minuit, 1977) p. 28.
‘has stemmed …’ cit. Max Schur, Freud: Living and Dying (New York: International Universities Press, 1972) p. 546; the poem, one of the very few poems Freud ever wrote, was sent in a letter to Fliess dated 29 December 1898. ‘the hysterical position …’
Irène Diamantis, ‘Recherches sur la féminité’, Omicar? — Analytica vol. 5 (July 1977) p. 27.
‘pressed her dress … ’ Freud, ‘Hysterical Phantasies and their Relation to Bisexuality’ (1908), Standard Edition vol. IX p. 166.
‘the polar character … ’ Freud, ‘My Views on the Part Played by Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses’, p. 272. ‘we have been in the habit …’ Freud, ‘Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes’ (1925), Standard Edition vol. XIX p. 249.
‘we need not feel … ’ Freud, The Question of Lay Analysis (1926), Standard Edition vol. xx p. 212.
‘God …’ Jacques Lacan, Encore, le séminaire livre XX (Paris: Seui1, 1975) p. 78.
‘Queen Victoria …’ Lacan, seminar 11 February 1975, Omicar? no. 4 p. 94.
‘I have a woman friend …’ Moustapha Safouan, L’Echec du principe du plaisir (Paris: Seuil, 1979) p. 43; an English version of this incident can be found in Safouan’s paper ‘Representation and Pleasure’, in The Talking Cure ed. C. MacCabe (London: Macmillan, 1981) pp. 85–6.
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