TY - JOUR A1 - Ginsburg, L. M. T1 - Sigmund Freud's Racial Vocabulary and Related Fragments from the Analysis of Clarence P. Oberndorf and Smiley Blanton JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 8 (No. 3, December 1999), pp. 243-248. N2 - Psychoanalysis is the product of a highly original and independent thinker from an historically marginalized minority with a perspective dedicated to plumbing the depths of our self-deceptions. Although the European anti-Semitism faced by Sigmund Freud was particularly relevant to his personal and professional identities, he was not unmindful of conflictual >race, creed and color< paradigms peculiar to the >New World<. Fragments from the analyses of two American psychiatrists (whose formative years were centered in the post-Civil War South) reveal the confluence of such crosscurrents in their autobiographical accounts of his inter- relationships with each of them. Y1 - 1999 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ginsburg, L. M. T1 - An unexamined >post-script< to the demise of Sigmund Freud’s Seduction Theory: A spurious reification or prescient second thoughts? JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge – Taylor and Francis) Vol. 12 (No. 4, December 2003), pp. 265-272. N2 - The beginning of this paper documents Sigmund Freud's pre-psychoanalytic experience as a 'first hand' observer of childhood behavior both professionally and as the patriarch of a large extended family in Vienna. During 1898, Freud was in the midst of an intensive correspondence with Wilhelm Fliess – his most trusted confidant, mentor and colleague – when he wrote, in part, about his sister Marie whose family was relocating in Berlin. She was apparently about to consult Fliess as her prospective physician. During the process, Freud voiced psychological assessments not only about his sister; but, also about her husband and their three daughters. The youngest among them was a 5-year old whom he characterized as >a rather gifted child, severely [hysterical]< (bracketed word in quotation juxtaposed for clarity). Eleven years later, Freud wrote a case study about a 5-year old boy whose pseudonym, for publication purposes, was Little Hans. The life of Little Hans (as well as the lives of his parents) has been thoroughly examined and we now know something about how he matured as an adult. In a contrasting context, less is known about the 'psychological trajectory' of Freud's 5-year old niece who also distinguished herself in certain respects as she matured during her abbreviated later life. She remained the subject of documentable correspondence mailed to him by his youngest daughter Anna as well as foreboding prospects articulated in a letter he subsequently wrote to an English nephew. Y1 - 2003 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ginsburg, L. M. T1 - Young Freud's linkage with Persia JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge – Taylor and Francis) Vol. 17 (No. 3, September 2008), pp. 189-191. Y1 - 2008 ER -