Figure 1-3. The main church in Freiberg, Mariae Geburt (The Nativity of Our Lasy). (Lee Miller, Philadelphia)

he comments, “She [the nanny] implanted in him the ideas of Heaven and Hell and probably those of salvation and resurrection.”51 Jones says very little about Freud and Heaven and Hell, and he never documents or pursues further Freud’s relation to salvation and resurrection. But, as is shown below, Freud indeed did have a lifelong involvement with all these very Christian ideas.

    It should also be noted that there was no synagogue in Freiburg, and, hence Freud was not exposed in these early years to any equivalent, Jewish religious experience.52 Nor is there any evidence that the Freuds


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