•Many have commented on the psychological blindness Dr. Sigmund Freud displayed
toward his slightly younger, charismatic, Berlin-based ear, nose and throat
(ENT) surgeon friend, [wilhelm fliess]. The extent of Freud’s idealization of Fliess, given
Freud’s enormous intellectual powers and his own perception of himself as
a hardheaded man of science, is striking. Such idealization rarely lasts. The
animosity between them became so bad that Fliess later accused Freud of
physically attacking him. Decades on, members of Fliess’family recalled that
Wilhelm believed Freud wanted to kill him (Makari, 2008).
•Dr. Jeffrey Masson deduces from the writings of Wilhelm Fliess's son, Robert fliess, also an analyst, that the elder Fliess may himself have been perverse and have sexually abused his children. -NYT
•Sulloway (1992) quoted Robert’s wife Elenore describing Wilhelm fliess as a man who however charming to patients and acquaintances was a tyrant at home. His children were second-class citizens, from diet to schooling. The mother, intelligent
and quite efficient, would appear to have been more impressed with her husband’s off-beat . . . physiologic theories than with her parental responsibilities.
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• A lifelong friend and colleague of Sigmund Freud from their first meeting in 1908, ernest jones became his official biographer. Jones was the first English-speaking practitioner of psychoanalysis and became its leading exponent in the English-speaking world. As President of both the International Psychoanalytical Association and the British Psycho-Analytical Society in the 1920s and 1930s, Jones exercised a formative influence in the establishment of their organisations, institutions and publications.