Frink and Freud

"Recently, a Viennese sawbones, in the name of a nebulous theory he calls the Unconscious, has turned himself into a homewrecker, a divorce counsellor, and matchmaker for already married patients without a thought for the consequences for their spouses and children. A destroyer of families, he is also a vandal of children's souls, claiming that no sooner do they come Into this world than they are driven by their sexuality. Are we dealing with a charlatan or a pervert? As a respectable American, I find myself the victim of one of his pernicioussprescriptions; since under cover of medical confidentiality, he drove my wife into the arms of a man he had previously indoctrinated and converted to his Infamousemethods..."

Abraham Bijur, unpublished letter, 1922 ...OR FRAUD?

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In 1909, while on a fundraising lecture tour in America, Sigmund Freud met Horace Frink, an early disciple of his theories of psychoanalysis, whose traumatic childhood and complicated personal life later cast a shadow over Freud’s professional career—and came close to destroying his reputation. This little-known and ultimately tragic true story of two divorces, three deaths, and a ménage à quatre, as well as the questionable motives behind Freud’s involvement in it, is the subject of a groundbreaking collaboration between artist and animator Lionel Richerand and the prizewinning philosopher, biographer, and novelist Pierre Péju.