Freud Is Better in German February 6, 1983 Freud Is Better in German By FRANK KERMODE FREUD AND MAN'S SOUL By Bruno Bettelheim. Ow in his 80th year, Bruno Bettelheim has spent more than half of his life in the United States.
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He arrived here in 1939 after a year in Dachau and Buchenwald, and this book contains an expression of his gratitude to his second country. His work as director of the University of Chicago's Orthogenic School, where he devoted himself to autistic children, as well as his books on children and other matters, has earned him the deep respect of his contemporaries.
Yet this is the book of an exile, and its most potent, though tacit, theme is nostalgia for the Vienna of his early life. He was born there in 1903 into a middle-class, assimilated Jewish family, about half a century after Freud, whose origins were very similar; and Dr. Bettelheim says that the culture in which he was reared had not changed very much. From 1920 on he read Freud's books as they appeared. He studied psychoanalysis and was analyzed in Freud's Vienna. The Gymnasium he attended still had the traditional humanistic curriculum, emphasizing Greek and Latin.
Most important of all, he shared Freud's language. Obviously Mr. Bettelheim can claim a degree of intimacy with the thought and the culture of Freud that few living people can match. It is clear that on arrival in the United States Dr. Bettelheim suffered some culture shock. Download Iso Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja 5 Ps2.