Escape of Sigmund Freud

by Cohen, David

• ISBN13: 9781590206737
• ISBN10: 1590206738
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-29
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

A month after the Nazis took over Austria on March 12, 1938, every business owned by Jews had a Nazi appointed to run it. For eighty-two- year-old Sigmund Freud, the world's leading psychoanalyst, the appointed "commissar" was a thirty-five-year-old chemist, Anton Sauerwald. Goebbels and Himmler wanted all psychoanalysts, especially Freud, humiliated and, later, killed, and Sauerwald was in a position to seal Freud's fate. The Escape of Sigmund Freudtells of the Nazi raid on Freud's house produced evidence that would have prevented the Freuds from leaving Austria--yet Sauerwald chose to hide this from his superiors. With never-before-seen material, David Cohen reveals the last two years of Freud's life and the fate of Sauerwald, from the arrest of Freud's daughter, Anna, by the Gestapo; the dramatic saga behind the signing of Freud's exit visa and his eventual escape to London via Paris; to how the Freud family would have the chance to save Sauerwald's life as well.

Author Biography

David Cohen is a writer, filmmaker, and psychologist. His books include Psychologists on Psychology and biographies of the therapist Carl Rogers and of John B. Watson, the founder of behaviorism. His films include When Holly Went Missing and The Pleasure Principle. He lives in London.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	p. 9
The Bureaucracy of Hate	p. 11
Biographies and Restricted Archives	p. 16
The Making of a Psychoanalyst	p. 25
Freud and Jung: A Battle for Supremacy	p. 51
A Treasure Trove of Family Letters	p. 59
The Rise of the Nazis	p. 86
The Poet and the Analyst	p. 115
Freud's Eightieth Birthday	p. 42
World History in a Teacup: The Anschluss	p. 155
The Worst Day of Freud's Life	p. 168
Anton Sauerwald	p. 180
Freedom	p. 195
Moses and Monotheism	p. 207
Last Works, Last Words	p. 221
After the War: The Fate of Sauerwald and Others	p. 229
The Trials of Anton Sauerwald	p. 234
The Secret Bank Accounts	p. 243
Epilogue	p. 247
The Cast List	p. 249
The Restricted Files	p. 253
Acknowledgments	p. 255
References	p. 264
Index	p. 265
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