Hitler On the Couch ; As a Boy, Hitler Was so Brutalised by His Father That a Doctor Referred Him to the Great Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. He Never Made the Appointment. But What If He Had?
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WHAT would have happened if Sigmund Freud had persuaded Adolf Hitler on to his psychoanalyst's couch? Might World War II, with all its appalling loss of life, have been avoided?
This is the intriguing question posed by a play this afternoon on Radio 4 called Dr Freud Will See You Now, Mr Hitler.See the full content of this document
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Hitler On the Couch ; As a Boy, Hitler Was so Brutalised by His Father That a Doctor Referred Him to the Great Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. He Never Made the Appointment. But What If He Had?
In calling the subject 'intriguing' I must declare an interest: I wrote this play, with my long-time collaborator Laurence Marks.
We started working on it over ten years ago, originally as a screenplay, after Laurence found an obscure little memoir called Hitler's Youth written in the Fifties by Franz Jetzinger.From this we discovered that, as a small boy, Hitler was taken to the local doctor, suffering from recurring nightmares. Probably these were caused, at least in part, by the beatings and humiliations administered by his father Alois, a customs officer.The doctor, (who happened to be Jewish), realised t...See the full content of this document
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