April 26, 2009
Freud Quiz # 23
One August day in 1909 Freud fainted in Jung's company because
(1) He was eating lunch with Jung and the schnitzel disagreed with him
(2) He felt a sexual attraction to Jung
(3) Freud had slept with his wife’s younger sister and Jung
threatened to blackmail him after hearing him talk about it in his sleep on the
trip the two men took to America
(4) They were having an argument about something trivial
when Jung revealed himself to be a virulent anti-Semite. “You’re next,” he said
with an evil laugh. He kept repeating, Jude Jude Jude.
(5) Freud said the father of monotheism must have hated his
own father and Jung gave him a dirty look
(6) Jung said the spring weather made him feel like a young
man. From this innocuous remark, Freud knew that Jung was an impostor. “You were
never Jung!” Freud cried.
Freud's fainting couch in Vienna, where he practiced his famous fainting spell.
-- DL
