This is Day 11 of the Family History Writing Challenge, 2018 In my last post, I outlined several questions arising from Adolf Schweizer's emigration form that I was hoping to tackle. The first one related to the nature of the butcher shop that Adolf owned--or worked in. It was very easily answered. In the section of the document that asks the person wishing to emigrate
Freud's food preferences
7 Things You Didn’t Know About Sigmund Freud, Including His Eyeglass Prescription
I'd be hard pressed to guess how many pages have been devoted to the life and times of Sigmund Freud. Hundreds of thousands? Millions? I've contributed more than a hundred here alone. But there are still a few things about the father of psychoanalysis that most people don't know, 75 years after his death, details about his everyday life that get lost in the scholarship. To
Free Associating About Food for Freud’s Birthday (May 6, 1856)
I've been doing a lot of things, some of them useful, others stressful--for example, trying to learn German in 3 1/2 weeks--in preparation for my upcoming trip to Vienna. Freudian Food Among the useful ones: Having the book Zu Tisch du Sigmund Freud, by Katja Behling-Fischer--At Sigmund Freud's Table: Lifestyle, Hospitality and Eating Habits of the Founder of