Sigmund Freud
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Sigmund Freud (6 May 1856 in Moravia, Austrian Empire (now Czech Republic) – 23 September 1939 in Hampstead, London, England) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. Wikipedia has prepared an outstanding article on his life, so it is not necessary to replicate it here, however Wikipedia editors overlooked his circumcision and his comments on circumcision, which will be addressed here.
Freud was born into a Jewish family in the Austrian Empire and was circumcised in accordance with the Abrahamic covenant, most likely by a mohel on the eighth day of his life. We now understand that infant circumcision is an adverse childhood experience and causes physical and psychic trauma.
Michel Hervé Bertaux-Navoiseau, a Paris-based sociopsychoanalyst, psycho-historian, intactivist, and author, has collected Freud's comments on circumcision. Bertaux-Navoiseau believed that Freud suffered trauma from his circumcision.[1]
Bertaux-Navoiseau reports that Freud opposed circumcision and refused to allow his sons to be circumcised and kept his sons intact.[1]
See also
External links
Wikipedia article: Sigmund Freud. Retrieved 4 June 2023.- Blanchfield, Patrick (1 September 2022).
The last days of Sigmund Freud
, The New Republic. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
References
- ↑ a b
Bertaux-Navoiseau, Michel: Freud, a victim and opponent of circumcision: chronicle of an unconscious trauma 
, Academia. (7 May 2023). Retrieved 4 June 2023.
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