One hundred years ago this month, Freud
traveled from Europe by steamship with Carl Jung and Sándor Ferenczi, the three of them psychoanalyzing one another en route [to the United States]. When they arrived, they spent several days touring Chinatown, Coney Island and other New York sights.
Then Freud went on to Worcester, Mass., where on the morning of Sept. 7 he gave the first of his famous “Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis” at Clark University.
Emma Goldman and William James were in the cheering section.
Peter D. Kramer makes Freud sound very old-fashioned. He “displayed bad character in the service of bad science.” Rather than, like the leading practitioners featured on University Diaries, using bad science in the service of greed.