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psychoanalysis brou^t about a great change. The case of Crown Prince
Rudolf of Austria (1858-1 889], who committed suicide at Mavrriing.
raised similar issues/
The famous first case N^-as that of a uxsman who was paralyzed. Yet
nothing could be discovered m her bod>' to explam her sitiution.The case
was written up by a man who follourd the ad\ice of a Latin poet: wait
nine years with your manuscript before vtHi publish. Breuer goe the idea
that the origin of this bodily deficiencv' was not ph>-Mcal but that it x^-as in
the mind. This was a radical change m the field of the lutural soences;such
a thing had never happened before—a discovrrv* that mental factors, ideas,
superstitions, fables, wrong ideas, what a man thinks, what he behe\rs. can
bring about changes in the bod>'. This y>ns something that all the natural
sciences had denied and contested before.
Freud was a vers* conscientious and caunous man. He didn't uy,"l have
completely discredited the old dtxtrines" He said. "IVrhaps one day;
afier a vers' long time, the pathological doctors wxU disco\Tr that ideas
are already the product of some pln'SKal external bodiK' factor. Then
psychoanalysts will no longer be needed or useful But for the time being
you must at least admit that there is a temporarv value in Brruer s and my
discovery and that. t'n>m the p*Mnt o( viev* of'prr*cnt-me external factor. jusi as urine is a pitxhict of
the bpp*»M!e of nuterulism. it n the only
contribution to the pn>blem ot nuterialmn \^ idealism that has lonte from
empirical re^ean.h in the hunun bod\
We have to deal with the wj\-s S4>me potple abuse psvchoanah'sts I do
not defend thtne p^vchtunalw> \*ho trv to expbin rsrrything fn»m the
point of view t)f certain urge*, among sshuh the %ex urge n cunudrred the
nunt important Ihcrr \va% a btntk b\ a FrrtKhman dealinn with
Baudelaire |( lurle% Baudelaire. 1H2I-IH«>7| Baudebirr liked to if>md
mone>. but he didnt earn mi»ne> because puNisher* didnt buy his poctm
during his lifetime But hi% nunher lud numo. she had nurried money
and her luiNbaiul died :iU\\ left ii to her liaudebire vtrttjuc hn mochrr a lot
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