A Professor through the looking-Glass: Contending narratives of Freud's relationships with The sisters bernays

摘要

In 1982 Peter Swales claimed that Minna Bernarys, Freud's sister-in-law, aborated Freud's child in Merano in September 1900. Letters published subsequently reveal flaws in Swales's hypothesis. Drawing on current literary theories the author recontextualises the 'aliquis slip' within a new narrative of the Freuds' 1900 summer holiday, revealing not an aboration crisis but Freud's momentary fear that his wife Martha was again pregnant.