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Douglas College

Nuclear Awareness

Do you question the conventional wisdom
of peace through strength?

Are you concerned about the testing of the

cruise missile?

If you have any doubts about the
two previous questions then the

NUCLEAR AWARENESS CLUB

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is for you.

We are attempting, with many others

throughout the world, to break away
from the despair associated with the

nuclear threat.

CONTACT? Mary Eady
Arts & Humanities
Km 3600 Loc 3601

 

The Nuclear Awareness
group © was active in
Douglas College last year
and has reactivated itself
again this year. The group
meets the second Thursday
of every month at 1200 in
the Arts and Humanities
about forty people on our
newsletter list.

Last year. we sponsored
anti-nuclear review
Under the Gun, showed a
number of films including
the celebrated film, If You
Love This Planet and briefly
studied Johnathan Schells
The Fate of The Earth. This
year we hope to have an
outside speaker come to the
college and to establish a
small strong organizational
ip to plan activities for the
all.

_The name Nuclear Aware-

 

ness has been chosen quite
deliberately as we seek, first
and foremost, to understand
and be aware of contempor-
ary nuclear issues. We are
not committed to any partic-
ular ideology and try reso-
lutely to disentangle nuclear
awareness from political loy-
alty, that is, we try objectiv-
ely to discern the reality of
the nuclear situation apart
from and beyond politics.

At the same time we are
committed to peace and
multilateral disarmament.
We believe that the virtue of
peace has been much neg-
lected and for whatever rea-
son evaluated negatively by
power broking _ societies,
both east and west. We are
therefore, committed to
what actions we can take for
these goals.

An Exposé

Is Freud
A Fraud?

There has been much crit-
icism recently toward Dr.
Jeffrey Masson and his book
“The Assault on Truth’’.
This book is an attempt to
shed some light as to the
fallacious basis of Sigmund
Freuds theories of seduction
the Oedipus Complex and
Penis Envy.

by Donna Forbes

 

Dr. Masson, a University
of Toronto graduate, was at
one time a practicing psy-
cho-analyst. His career led
him to become the director
of the Freud Institute,
where he was a member of
the board in charge of ad-
ministering Freud’s copy-
rights. It was at this time
that he met Anna Freud,
Sigmund Freud’s daughter.
Anna allowed him access to
many of Freud’s memoirs
and personal letters, includ-
ing his correspondence with
Dr. Wilhelm Fliess, pertain-
ing in particular to the
Emma Eckstein case.

 

Emma Eckstein, a. well-
known Austrian feminist,
was Freud’s first psych-
analysis patient. She came
to Freud displaying the clas-
sic symptoms of what Freud
called Hysteria. This neuro-
sis or hysteria Freud be-
lieved was induced due to
Emma’s sexual attack by a
shopkeeper at the age of 8,
and what he surmised could
have been an even earlier
attack by a member of her
family, probably her father.

It was during this time
that Dr. Wilhelm Fliess de-
veloped his theory of the
Nasal Reflex | Neuroses.
Fliess believed that there
was a connection between
the female genitalia and
certain areas in the nose.
When women masturbated
this caused anatomical chan-
ges within the nose, and the
only way to correct this

 

problem was to apply elec-
tric therapy to the nose or
to operate. It was through
Fliess insistence that Freud
sent Emma Eckstein to him
for therapy.

Flies operated on Emma’s
nose and returned to Freud
complaining of severe pain,

“So this is the

strong sex!”

 

abnormal bleeding, and a
nauseous smell that seemed
to permeate from Emma’s
nose. Freud called in a
surgeon to examine her and
the surgeon found what ap-
peared to be a string within
the nasal passage. He
pulled it and discovered
over half a meter of surgical
gauze, which upon its remo-
val from which Emma nearly
died. Freud had fled the
room and upon his entrance
Emma pointed to him and
screamed ‘So this is the
strong sex’’. When Freud
later wrote to Fliess about
the presence of the surgical
gauze he referred to it as a
“minimal oversight’’ and
urged Fliess to ‘‘forget it.’’

Freud was riow faced with
the problem as to what
induced the bleeding, see-
ing as he drew no connec-
tion between he hemorrhage
and the surgical gauze. He
gave up on his. earlier
‘‘Theory of Seduction’
which stated that children in
fact seduce adults into sex-
ual relations with them, in
order to cover up the Fliess
malpractice. He now be-
lieved that Emma had fanta-
sized the adolescent as-
saults. He discovered that
Emma had nose-bleeds as a
child, which naturally would
draw attention from her par-
ents, and he believed that
Emma’s hemorrhage was
psycho-somatically out of a
hysterical longing to call
Freud to he bedside in order
to have sexual relations with
him.

It is the Emma Eckstein
case that forms the corner-
stone for many of Freud’s
theories. One such theory,
the ‘‘Theory of Women’s
Diminishing Capacity for
Distinguishing the Truth’’

not only caused Freud to
believe that women had less
of a capacity for justice than
men. but also accused wo-
men of not facing reality, in
the sense that they actually
imagined such assaults as
rape and could not tolerate
the truth when Freud or
other Psycho-analysts told
them. He basically believed
that women fantasize the
fact that their genitalia were
shrivelled versions of the
male counterparts. Hence-
forth Freud’s ‘‘Theory of
Penis Envy’’.

It is through these fanta-
sies that Freud also formula-
ted his ‘‘Theory of the
Oedipus Complex’’ in which
children associate to parents
of the opposite sex, often
fantasizing about them
which shows up as a latent
tendency to choose mates
‘just like dear ole mom or
dad.’

... theory of

Nasal Reflex

Neuroses

 

This research into Freud

by Dr. Jeffrey Masson is

evidence that must be care-
fully scrutinized, yet the
vast majority of his col-
leagues refuse to take his
book seriously, preferring
rather to attack the man
than his book.

Why is there such an easy
dismissal of the informatin
presented by Masson? Is his
research not based upon.
Freud’s own personal letters
in which he was meticulous,
and should not these illus-
trious members of the psy-
chology society confine their
criticism to the information
and not whethr to question
Masson’s findings, but ra-
ther to question the manic
fear that this man and his
book has generated in the
psychology community. As
can be seen, many of
Freud’s theories are still
with us today so is it not
time to question the basic
premise of these theories?

After all, do we really
have much to lose if Freud
is a Fraud?

Nextweek: Freud and the
Law. ronal