The Freud Files by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen & Sonu Shamdasani

Author:Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen & Sonu Shamdasani [Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel & Shamdasani, Sonu]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

It’s certainly plausible that many of Freud’s patients didn’t raise any objections to his interpretations – even his most daring and racy ones – and indeed, we have many examples attesting to this. Pankejeff’s case, however, is quite a different matter. As it happens, we have his own testimony which plainly contradicts Freud’s version of events. Sixty years later, he confided to the Austrian journalist Karin Obholzer that he had never been able to recall the scene imagined by Freud, in spite of the latter’s assurances that the memory would reappear after a certain period of time. How, then, do we reconcile this with the ‘self-perceptions’ of the scene, the ‘memories’ and the ‘statements’ and the ‘assertions’ that Freud so freely attributed to him?

Sergius Pankejeff: That scene in the dream where the windows open and so on and the wolves are sitting there, and his interpretation, I don’t know, those things are miles apart. It’s terribly farfetched . . . But that primal scene is no more than a construct . . . The whole thing is improbable because in Russia, children sleep in the nanny’s bedroom, not in the parents’. It’s possible, of course, that there was an exception, how do I know? But I have never been able to remember anything of that sort . . . He [Freud] maintains that I saw it, but who will guarantee that it is so? That it is not a fantasy of his? . . . Well, I also have to look at psychoanalysis critically, I cannot believe everything Freud said, after all. I have always thought that the memory would come. But it never did.

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