Article
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis (2008) 68, 295–300. doi:10.1057/ajp.2008.23
Meditation, The Freud Family and Poets
Lawrence M Ginsburg1
Correspondence: Lawrence M. Ginsburg, J.D., 2574 Leslie Drive, NE, Atlanta, GA 30345-1532. e-mail: LMG24@cornell.edu
1Lawrence M. Ginsburg, J.D., Former Officer of Atlanta Foundation for Psychoanalysis.
Abstract
The savoring of yellow Tyrolean laburnum blossoms became a summer vacation rite of the Freud family. It was reminiscent of their paterfamilias's infantile "Dandelion in the Green Meadow" dream-scape. We may ponder whether Freud's adolescent olfactory memories were similarly "re-rooted" in Freiberg as a 17 year-old where many hours were "passed by him in solitary walks through the lovely woods" he had found once more.
Keywords:
Freud's vacations, poet of Lavarone, Jakob Julius David, olfactory memory of childhood
