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Old December 17th, 2009 #2
Mike Parker
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Sigmund Freud’s father’s fur cap, or a facsimile. Jacob Freud confided to his son that some anti-Semitic ruffian had once knocked his cap to the ground when he was younger. You’d think the boy would either forget the incident—these things happen—or at most learn some self-defense skills so he wouldn’t be pushed around like that. But young Sigmund was a Jew, and he instead concocted an elaborate fantasy in which he was the Semite Hannibal wreaking vengeance on Rome. In Freud’s day, Rome contained the Vatican, so the Catholic church’s sexual teachings took on special interest for him, with psychoanalysis his tool to overcome sexual “repression” (sensible restraint), which ushered in the great moral and family chaos of the 20th and 21st centuries. The bespectacled quack Freud came closer than Hannibal or Suleiman the Magnificent or any other fearsome enemy ever did to destroying Western civilization, all over a silly cap.


Recreation of Jacob Freud's humiliation

Last edited by Mike Parker; December 17th, 2009 at 08:16 AM.