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Foreshadowing — and Forelightening

February 26, 2013 by Edie Jarolim 4 Comments

You've heard of foreshadowing. A character in a novel feels a cold chill or, in a film, ominous music plays while a man drives along in a car, a much-too-happy grin on his face (yes , I'm thinking of you Downton Abbey, Season 3, and damn you not only for killing off Matthew but for doing it in such a goofy way, with such a clumsy use of foreshadowing, that I was almost tempted

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Viktor Kornmehl Wishes Professor Freud A Happy Birthday

February 24, 2013 by Edie Jarolim 4 Comments

May 6, 1931, was Sigmund Freud's 75th birthday. He was hoping to avoid a fuss, especially since he had been in the hospital since late April, undergoing a painful operation on his jaw, and had only returned home to 19 Berggasse the previous day. Freud Feted No such luck. According to biographer Peter Gay (Freud: A Life for Our Time, pp. 574-5): [Freud] could veto festivities

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Richard Tauber: “How Can I Be a Jew?”

February 24, 2013 by Edie Jarolim 12 Comments

A few days ago, I wrote about a June 24, 1932 antisemitic incident at the University of Vienna that Viktor Kornmehl tried to quell. Only a few months later, on October 26,1932, another incident brought Viktor back into the international Jewish press. According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA):  JEWISH PHYSICIAN SERIOUSLY INJURED; JEWISH STUDENT DELEGATION COMPLAINS TO

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Dr. Kornmehl, Prof. Freud & Jewish Activism

February 21, 2013 by Edie Jarolim 6 Comments

It's been interesting to speculate about Viktor Kornmehl and his brushes with the other, more famous doctors of Vienna. As Anna Redsand wrote in her wonderful guest post, there's a very strong likelihood that he was acquainted with Viktor Frankl in high school: It was a small institution and they were there at the same time. It's possible too that they bonded because both were

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Viktor Kornmehl, Viktor Frankl & Sigmund Freud

February 20, 2013 by Edie Jarolim 8 Comments

Today I'm turning Freud's Butcher over to a guest blogger. You'll soon see why. I was amazed at the serendipity when I realized I knew the author of a biography of the latest psychologist to turn up in the life of a Kornmehl family member. *** Guest post by Anna Redsand "The more exciting part is that I may have discovered a link between Viktor Kornmehl and another, more

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