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| Chapter One. The First Three Years | 1 |
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The Thesis: Freud’s Pro-Christian (and Anti-Christian) Unconscious, 2 His Catholic Nanny: General Importance, 3 His Nanny: Importance for Religion, 8 The Nanny: How Long Was She with Sigmund?, 12 Was His Nanny a Thief?, 16 Was Freud Secretly Baptized?, 17 Washed in the Blood of the Lamb, 20 Freud’s Response to the Loss of His Nanny, 22 Freud and Separation Anxiety, 23 Freud’s Travel “Phobia” and Separation Anxiety, 25 The Theme of the Two Mothers, 26 Freud’s First “Anna,” or What Was the Nanny Called?, 29 | |
| Chapter Two. Childhood and Student Days: 1860-1882 | 31 |
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Vienna Childhood: 1860-1872, 31 Freud’s Rejection of His Father, 36 The Alleged Affair of Amalia and Philipp, 39 The Meaning of the Name “Sigismund,”42 The Religious and Other Significance of the Amalia-Philipp Affair, 44 The Hannibal Complex: Freud’s Siding with Rome, 45 Don Quixote, 47 Silberstein and Fluss Letters, 47 University Years: 1873-1882, 48 The Influence of Franz Brentano, 50 Conclusion, 56 | |
| Chapter Three. Young Manhood and Early Maturity: 1882-1900 | 57 |
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Engagement Letters: Easter, Pentecost, and Other Christian Themes, 57 The Fliess “Roman” Letters: 1887-1902, 69 The Desire for Baptism: Velikovsky’s Thesis and Freud’s Dreams, 80 C. F. Meyer: Poems and Novels, 97 Conclusion, 100 | |
| Chapter Four. Freud and the Devil: Literature and Cocaine | 101 |
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Freud’s Pact: Part One, 101 His Nanny and the Devil, 102 Freud and Literature, 103 Flaubert’s The Temptation of St. Anthony, 105 Goethe’s Faust, 106 Cocaine and the Devil, 110 Thornton’s Cocaine Thesis, 113 Milton’s Paradise Lost, 115 Mozart’s Don Giovanni, 117 Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris, 119 The Interpretation of Dreams: Rome, Malleus Maleficarum, Witchcraft, and Related Themes, 123 Conclusion, 128 | |
| Chapter Five. Freud and the Devil: Sexual Seduction and Splitting | 129 |
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Was Freud Sexually Seduced as a Child?, 129 Freud’s Personality: Splitting, 141 Freud’s Personality: Borderline Personality Disorder and the Devil, 145 Freud’s Personality: Splitting and Object Relations Theory, 147 Freud’s Pact: Part Two, 149 Freud and the Occult, 157 Freud and the Anti-Christ, 158 Jesus as the Anti-Oedipus, 166 Conclusion, 170 | |
| Chapter Six. The Mature and Final Years: 1900-1939 | 172 |
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The Freud-Pfister Letters, 172 The Freud-Jung Letters: 1906-1914, 178 The Freud-Abraham Correspondence, 181 Heine’s Lazarus, 182 Other Examples of Christian Art, 184 “Der Liebe Gott,” 189 The Virgin Mary, 191 Mysticism, Music, and the Acropolis, 194 Pater (Father) Schmidt and the Catholic Church, 197 Last Letters and Moses and Monotheism: 1925-1939, 200 Conclusion, 203 | |
| Chapter Seven. Epilogue: A Biographical Critique of Freud’s Atheism | 207 |
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Religion as Illusion, 208 Freud’s Lack of Experience with Religious Patients, 210 The Nanny and the Projection of Disillusionment, 214 Origins of Freud’s Atheism, 217 Atheism and the Oedipus Complex, 220 Conclusion, 221 Notes, 223 Bibliography [single Web page] Index [single Web page] [Top of Page] | |