A little cocaine to loosen my tongue
"I was very handsome and made the best impression on myself. We took a car (sharing the expenses). Ricchetti was terribly nervous, I was quite serene thanks to a small dose of cocaine, although his success was assured, and I had every reason to fear ridicule. (...) This is how I have performed (or rather how the cocaine has performed) and I am very satisfied."

Freud, letter to Martha dated January 20, 1886.

During the 1880s, the young Freud, who had not yet explored the labyrinths of the unconscious, tried to make a name for himself by publishing studies on erythroxylon coca, a plant from which an alkaloid, cocaine, was made and whose properties he praised. To these studies, which the French-speaking reader will find here in a new translation, we enclose some letters to Martha Bernays, his future wife, which shed light on Freud's intimacy with the drug.

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A little cocaine to loosen my tongue
"I was very handsome and made the best impression on myself. We took a car (sharing the expenses). Ricchetti was terribly nervous, I was quite serene thanks to a small dose of cocaine, although his success was assured, and I had every reason to fear ridicule. (...) This is how I have performed (or rather how the cocaine has performed) and I am very satisfied."

Freud, letter to Martha dated January 20, 1886.

During the 1880s, the young Freud, who had not yet explored the labyrinths of the unconscious, tried to make a name for himself by publishing studies on erythroxylon coca, a plant from which an alkaloid, cocaine, was made and whose properties he praised. To these studies, which the French-speaking reader will find here in a new translation, we enclose some letters to Martha Bernays, his future wife, which shed light on Freud's intimacy with the drug.

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A little cocaine to loosen my tongue

A little cocaine to loosen my tongue

by Sigmund Freud
A little cocaine to loosen my tongue
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A little cocaine to loosen my tongue

A little cocaine to loosen my tongue

by Sigmund Freud

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"I was very handsome and made the best impression on myself. We took a car (sharing the expenses). Ricchetti was terribly nervous, I was quite serene thanks to a small dose of cocaine, although his success was assured, and I had every reason to fear ridicule. (...) This is how I have performed (or rather how the cocaine has performed) and I am very satisfied."

Freud, letter to Martha dated January 20, 1886.

During the 1880s, the young Freud, who had not yet explored the labyrinths of the unconscious, tried to make a name for himself by publishing studies on erythroxylon coca, a plant from which an alkaloid, cocaine, was made and whose properties he praised. To these studies, which the French-speaking reader will find here in a new translation, we enclose some letters to Martha Bernays, his future wife, which shed light on Freud's intimacy with the drug.

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ISBN-13: 9782315011148
Publisher: Max Milo Editions
Publication date: 02/09/2023
Edition description: Max Milo Editions ed.
Pages: 104
Product dimensions: 5.71(w) x 8.07(h) x 0.22(d)

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About The Author
Sigmund Freud, whose influence is undeniable, needs no introduction. But it is here a less usual face of the psychoanalyst that the general public is invited to discover. To quote Freud himself, there is nothing like a little cocaine to "loosen the tongue": "Such have been my performances (or rather those of cocaine) and I am very satisfied with them." A work that allows us to glimpse the importance of cocaine on the genesis of the theory of the unconscious.
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