Tag Archives: Alma Schindler

claudel: before the poison

She was seventeen and wanted to be a sculptor. He was forty-one. He was Auguste Rodin on the verge of  taking to the heights of the French art world, being compared to genius of Michelangelo. He had overcome the major … Continue reading

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OLD VIENNA OBSCURED BY CLOUDS: Psychic Conflict, Anxiety and Hysteria

In a letter written in 1892 to Wilhelm Fliess,  Freud made a remark, ” No neurasthenia or analogous neurosis exists without a disturbance in the sexual function.” “I am pretty well alone here in tackling the neuroses. They regard me … Continue reading

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