13. Book Reviews IX: German Literature (Freud, Schiller, Holderlin)
The Wolfman and Other Cases, by Sigmund Freud
The Robbers and Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller
Selected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Holderlin
The Wolfman and Other Cases
By Sigmund Freud
1. The woman dressed like a man, had a man's haircut, and she also knew how to behave like a man.
2. The man dressed up like a clown, and also knew how to wear makeup.
3. I told him don't go too close to the ledge on the roof, because you could fall over. But his repressed desires to be daring were overwhelming.
4. Omitted.
5. Teach children that just as they grow, develop, and go through phases, their family also grows, develops, and goes through phases.
6. Teach children that as they may have gotten everything they wanted as young boys or girls, they cannot get everything they want as they grow older.
7. When children are faced with the realities of life, and how they will survive as they grow into adults.
8. Frustration and fear at the upcoming birth of a new baby sister.
9. Defiance in children, or when children defy their parents.
10. Quick displays of aggression and hostility in males.
11. The stork is very slow and methodical about how it picks up and puts down stones with its beak onto its nest.
12. When people have difficulty adjusting to city life.
13. Phobias and anxiety that accompany city life can be numerous.
14. Abnormal sexual behavior may be able to be controlled by counseling and medication.
15. The man told his psychiatrist his experiences, then his psychiatrist interpreted them in his office.
16. It was common for the psychiatrist to have his clients' paperwork, so that he could easily pull up information about his client.
17. The man spent a lot of time around women, and other people thought that this was a problem.
18. Men are known to compete for the love of a woman.
19. In psychiatry, there are exceptional individuals, who are unique for different reasons.
20. In counseling, sometimes subjects repeat themselves.
21. After counseling and scenarios at home with his family, the patient was cured of his psychiatric disorder.
22. “I know that I am assuming a great deal as regards the reasoning powers of a child of four or five, but I am allowing myself to be guided by recent discoveries…”
23. The child spoke at a very high pitch.
24. “What influence tipped the scales, in the situation we have described…is a difficult question to answer and could no doubt only be decided by comparing this case with several other similar analyses...”
25. The man was a lot like a woman, even in his sex life.
26. The woman was very masculine in her life.
27. One of the men was feminine, and one of the men was masculine.
28. The horse carriages of NYC date back to old towns in Italy. The Italians had a culture around horses, and sometimes they would even play games of horsey with their family.
29. Italians sometimes had irrational fears, or phobias about horses.
30. Some games are purely fantasy, and have no equivalent in reality.
31. "A boy can have children, you know?” “No, a boy can’t have children.”
32. Sigmund Freud had a patient who was an old woman who had old, used underwear that she would regularly wash in her sink and dry at home.
33. The man's psychiatrist regularly asked him about his sex life, and then interpreted these comments in relation to his treatment.
34. Human sometimes make up psychological problems about themselves, which are really not true psychological problems that they have.
35. Examine patient's relationships with the opposite sex.
36. Examine patient's level of experience and wisdom in life.
37. "He follows some of my ideas, but some of them get past him."
38. Obsessive compulsion with cosmetic surgery and liposuction.
39. Indirect suicide, or suicide which occurs over a great deal of time.
40. Obsessive compulsive shows of excessive love and affection.
41. Omitted.
42. Obsessive compulsive shows of excessive mourning at funerals.
43. Obsessive compulsive shows of excessive sympathy for others.
44. Repressing or forgetting past criminal behavior.
45. The surprise thought scenario - when you’re with someone and surprise, totally irrelevant thoughts come up in your discussion.
46. The man looked like he needed to bathe more regularly and shave more regularly.
47. He claimed that his memory was mostly dreams, hallucinations, and visions, instead of realistic events.
48. His family regularly asked him about his experience in the army.
49. Sudden expressions of rage or anger displayed by some psychiatric patients.
50. Using evidence and other information to prove a case against someone.
51. Using the credibility, wisdom, and experience of one person over another person to judge a case.
52. The man was willing to fight, rather than being viewed as weak. He didn’t want his father or cousins to beat him up, and he didn’t want to lose his intellectual beliefs or his material possessions.
53. It is difficult for some people to answer a direct question directly. —Sigmund Freud
54.Some people display defiance of authority figures in police or government.
55. Adults should act like wise and experienced men and women.
56. Adults should display wise and experienced behavior in their relationships with others.
57. The man had a fantasy with the connection between science fiction and real life. This was a detachment from reality.
58. A more far-reaching attempt to interpret the patient's dreams on this subject produced the clearest indications of a poetic fantasy, which we might term epic in scope...
59. Scientific inquiry on the basis of psychoanalysis is at present merely a by-product of therapeutic endeavour, after all, and for that reason the yield is often greatest in the case of patients whose treatment is unsuccessful.
60. The man was fond of bringing up childhood memories in his discussions.
61. Problems with compulsive thinking and compulsive ideas.
62. You may not be mentally ill, if you have attended mental health classes for years, and your classmates believe that you are a normal person.
63. The other man was tough on him, since the man had a high-pitched voice, was "half-man and half-woman," and not a real man.
64. The patient had displayed a psychological disorder, or an obsessive-compulsive neurosis, characterized by thoughts which displayed a displacement with reality.
65. The patient's neurosis included distorted thoughts about reality.
66. The patient's neurosis, characterized by a displacement with reality, could have caused the patient to harm himself or others.
67. The patient's neurosis included childlike behaviors.
68. The patient would sometimes become fixated on little sleights of the hand when engaged in discussions.
69. The patient would sometimes laugh and make irrational jokes.
70. The patient's neurosis was characterized by severe mood swings.
71. The doctor had tried to uncover the root of his patient's childlike behavior.
72. "As I made clear earlier, in this disorder repression does not take place through amnesia, but through the destruction of causal connections consequent upon the withdrawal of the accompanying emotion."
73. "It would seem that these repressed relationships retain a certain warning power - which I have compared elsewhere to an endopsychic perception - so that they are made to enter the outside world by means of projection and there bear witness to what has failed to occur in the psychic sphere."
74. "...and was apparently unable to say who had carried out the operation and whether one ovary had been removed or both."
75. "He was obliged to recall what had been forgotten and to establish what he had neglected to find out."
76. "The particular fondness that the patient suffering from obsessive-compulsive neurosis feels for uncertainty and doubt provides him with a motive...Such topics are pre-eminently paternity, life expectancy, the afterlife and memory - to which we generally give credence without possessing the faintest proof of its reliability."
77. "Obsessive-compulsive neurosis make substantial use of the uncertainty of memory in symptom formation; the role played by life expectancy and the afterlife in the content of the patient's thinking is something we shall shortly discover."
78. "First, though, as the most appropriate transition to that topic, I shall discuss the characteristic tendency to superstition in our patient, my earlier reference to which will no doubt have disconcerted more than one reader."
79. "I am referring to the omnipotence he claims for his thoughts and feelings, his good and evil wishes. It is certainly no small temptation to declare this idea to be a delusion that goes far beyond the limits characteristic of obsessive-compulsive neurosis; except that I have encountered this same conviction in another patient suffering from compulsive disorders who has long since recovered and now leads a normal, active life, and in fact all those suffering from obsessive-compulsive neurosis conduct themselves as if they shared this conviction"
80. "The mother and father taught their son how to correct his abnormal behaviors. The psychiatrist also helped them with this." --Sigmund Freud
81. Sigmund Freud and Oliver Sacks were psychiatrists who kept detailed case notes about their patients and their paychological problems and their abnormal behaviors. Freud and Sacks also suggest that everyone has abnormal behavior: doctors, teachers, lawyers, bankers, police officers, etc.
82. In treating one of Freud's patients, the family used the scene from Little Red Riding Hood, where, in the end, the big bad wolf dresses up in grandmother's clothes, and sleeps in grandmother's bed.
83. Sigmund Freud discusses physical intimidation.
84. Due to surgery, some people do not have a sex drive.
85. Some people’s sex drive declines over time.
86. Sometimes, the father plays a mysterious part in the child’s life.
87. What is considered a sexual act to some, is considered totally normal to others.
88. His family and psychiatrist would deliberately trigger him, for a psychoanalytical experiment.
89. He was arrested on the basis of one minuscule piece of evidence.
90. Paranoia was also a factor in his arrest.
91. Many people in his family also had psychological problems that would often arise.
92. Several factors caused his arrest.
93. Why couldn’t his family just act normally?
94. The hero had a beautiful mind, his thoughts and internal voice were brilliant.
95. Declaring independence from one’s parents as a behavior of many human beings. This can be painful but it is necessary for normal adults.
96. "...was apparently unable to say who had carried out the operation and whether one ovary had been removed or both."
97. Discusses the differences between the generations.
98. He was a rich man, but he didn’t know how to wisely manage his finances.
99. When he died, his money was divided between his mother and his older sister.
100. Discusses differences between children and their parents: ideological, social, etc.
The Robbers and Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller
Selected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Holderlin
The Wolfman and Other Cases
By Sigmund Freud
1. The woman dressed like a man, had a man's haircut, and she also knew how to behave like a man.
2. The man dressed up like a clown, and also knew how to wear makeup.
3. I told him don't go too close to the ledge on the roof, because you could fall over. But his repressed desires to be daring were overwhelming.
4. Omitted.
5. Teach children that just as they grow, develop, and go through phases, their family also grows, develops, and goes through phases.
6. Teach children that as they may have gotten everything they wanted as young boys or girls, they cannot get everything they want as they grow older.
7. When children are faced with the realities of life, and how they will survive as they grow into adults.
8. Frustration and fear at the upcoming birth of a new baby sister.
9. Defiance in children, or when children defy their parents.
10. Quick displays of aggression and hostility in males.
11. The stork is very slow and methodical about how it picks up and puts down stones with its beak onto its nest.
12. When people have difficulty adjusting to city life.
13. Phobias and anxiety that accompany city life can be numerous.
14. Abnormal sexual behavior may be able to be controlled by counseling and medication.
15. The man told his psychiatrist his experiences, then his psychiatrist interpreted them in his office.
16. It was common for the psychiatrist to have his clients' paperwork, so that he could easily pull up information about his client.
17. The man spent a lot of time around women, and other people thought that this was a problem.
18. Men are known to compete for the love of a woman.
19. In psychiatry, there are exceptional individuals, who are unique for different reasons.
20. In counseling, sometimes subjects repeat themselves.
21. After counseling and scenarios at home with his family, the patient was cured of his psychiatric disorder.
22. “I know that I am assuming a great deal as regards the reasoning powers of a child of four or five, but I am allowing myself to be guided by recent discoveries…”
23. The child spoke at a very high pitch.
24. “What influence tipped the scales, in the situation we have described…is a difficult question to answer and could no doubt only be decided by comparing this case with several other similar analyses...”
25. The man was a lot like a woman, even in his sex life.
26. The woman was very masculine in her life.
27. One of the men was feminine, and one of the men was masculine.
28. The horse carriages of NYC date back to old towns in Italy. The Italians had a culture around horses, and sometimes they would even play games of horsey with their family.
29. Italians sometimes had irrational fears, or phobias about horses.
30. Some games are purely fantasy, and have no equivalent in reality.
31. "A boy can have children, you know?” “No, a boy can’t have children.”
32. Sigmund Freud had a patient who was an old woman who had old, used underwear that she would regularly wash in her sink and dry at home.
33. The man's psychiatrist regularly asked him about his sex life, and then interpreted these comments in relation to his treatment.
34. Human sometimes make up psychological problems about themselves, which are really not true psychological problems that they have.
35. Examine patient's relationships with the opposite sex.
36. Examine patient's level of experience and wisdom in life.
37. "He follows some of my ideas, but some of them get past him."
38. Obsessive compulsion with cosmetic surgery and liposuction.
39. Indirect suicide, or suicide which occurs over a great deal of time.
40. Obsessive compulsive shows of excessive love and affection.
41. Omitted.
42. Obsessive compulsive shows of excessive mourning at funerals.
43. Obsessive compulsive shows of excessive sympathy for others.
44. Repressing or forgetting past criminal behavior.
45. The surprise thought scenario - when you’re with someone and surprise, totally irrelevant thoughts come up in your discussion.
46. The man looked like he needed to bathe more regularly and shave more regularly.
47. He claimed that his memory was mostly dreams, hallucinations, and visions, instead of realistic events.
48. His family regularly asked him about his experience in the army.
49. Sudden expressions of rage or anger displayed by some psychiatric patients.
50. Using evidence and other information to prove a case against someone.
51. Using the credibility, wisdom, and experience of one person over another person to judge a case.
52. The man was willing to fight, rather than being viewed as weak. He didn’t want his father or cousins to beat him up, and he didn’t want to lose his intellectual beliefs or his material possessions.
53. It is difficult for some people to answer a direct question directly. —Sigmund Freud
54.Some people display defiance of authority figures in police or government.
55. Adults should act like wise and experienced men and women.
56. Adults should display wise and experienced behavior in their relationships with others.
57. The man had a fantasy with the connection between science fiction and real life. This was a detachment from reality.
58. A more far-reaching attempt to interpret the patient's dreams on this subject produced the clearest indications of a poetic fantasy, which we might term epic in scope...
59. Scientific inquiry on the basis of psychoanalysis is at present merely a by-product of therapeutic endeavour, after all, and for that reason the yield is often greatest in the case of patients whose treatment is unsuccessful.
60. The man was fond of bringing up childhood memories in his discussions.
61. Problems with compulsive thinking and compulsive ideas.
62. You may not be mentally ill, if you have attended mental health classes for years, and your classmates believe that you are a normal person.
63. The other man was tough on him, since the man had a high-pitched voice, was "half-man and half-woman," and not a real man.
64. The patient had displayed a psychological disorder, or an obsessive-compulsive neurosis, characterized by thoughts which displayed a displacement with reality.
65. The patient's neurosis included distorted thoughts about reality.
66. The patient's neurosis, characterized by a displacement with reality, could have caused the patient to harm himself or others.
67. The patient's neurosis included childlike behaviors.
68. The patient would sometimes become fixated on little sleights of the hand when engaged in discussions.
69. The patient would sometimes laugh and make irrational jokes.
70. The patient's neurosis was characterized by severe mood swings.
71. The doctor had tried to uncover the root of his patient's childlike behavior.
72. "As I made clear earlier, in this disorder repression does not take place through amnesia, but through the destruction of causal connections consequent upon the withdrawal of the accompanying emotion."
73. "It would seem that these repressed relationships retain a certain warning power - which I have compared elsewhere to an endopsychic perception - so that they are made to enter the outside world by means of projection and there bear witness to what has failed to occur in the psychic sphere."
74. "...and was apparently unable to say who had carried out the operation and whether one ovary had been removed or both."
75. "He was obliged to recall what had been forgotten and to establish what he had neglected to find out."
76. "The particular fondness that the patient suffering from obsessive-compulsive neurosis feels for uncertainty and doubt provides him with a motive...Such topics are pre-eminently paternity, life expectancy, the afterlife and memory - to which we generally give credence without possessing the faintest proof of its reliability."
77. "Obsessive-compulsive neurosis make substantial use of the uncertainty of memory in symptom formation; the role played by life expectancy and the afterlife in the content of the patient's thinking is something we shall shortly discover."
78. "First, though, as the most appropriate transition to that topic, I shall discuss the characteristic tendency to superstition in our patient, my earlier reference to which will no doubt have disconcerted more than one reader."
79. "I am referring to the omnipotence he claims for his thoughts and feelings, his good and evil wishes. It is certainly no small temptation to declare this idea to be a delusion that goes far beyond the limits characteristic of obsessive-compulsive neurosis; except that I have encountered this same conviction in another patient suffering from compulsive disorders who has long since recovered and now leads a normal, active life, and in fact all those suffering from obsessive-compulsive neurosis conduct themselves as if they shared this conviction"
80. "The mother and father taught their son how to correct his abnormal behaviors. The psychiatrist also helped them with this." --Sigmund Freud
81. Sigmund Freud and Oliver Sacks were psychiatrists who kept detailed case notes about their patients and their paychological problems and their abnormal behaviors. Freud and Sacks also suggest that everyone has abnormal behavior: doctors, teachers, lawyers, bankers, police officers, etc.
82. In treating one of Freud's patients, the family used the scene from Little Red Riding Hood, where, in the end, the big bad wolf dresses up in grandmother's clothes, and sleeps in grandmother's bed.
83. Sigmund Freud discusses physical intimidation.
84. Due to surgery, some people do not have a sex drive.
85. Some people’s sex drive declines over time.
86. Sometimes, the father plays a mysterious part in the child’s life.
87. What is considered a sexual act to some, is considered totally normal to others.
88. His family and psychiatrist would deliberately trigger him, for a psychoanalytical experiment.
89. He was arrested on the basis of one minuscule piece of evidence.
90. Paranoia was also a factor in his arrest.
91. Many people in his family also had psychological problems that would often arise.
92. Several factors caused his arrest.
93. Why couldn’t his family just act normally?
94. The hero had a beautiful mind, his thoughts and internal voice were brilliant.
95. Declaring independence from one’s parents as a behavior of many human beings. This can be painful but it is necessary for normal adults.
96. "...was apparently unable to say who had carried out the operation and whether one ovary had been removed or both."
97. Discusses the differences between the generations.
98. He was a rich man, but he didn’t know how to wisely manage his finances.
99. When he died, his money was divided between his mother and his older sister.
100. Discusses differences between children and their parents: ideological, social, etc.
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