Introductory lectures on psycho-analysis · Sigmund Freud
A BROKEN ARM FOR A BROKEN MARRIAGE-VOW.
Frau Anna M., the wife of a soldier in the reserve, accused Frau Clementine K. of unfaithfulness to her husband. In her accusation she stated that Frau K. had had an illicit relationship with Karl M. during her husband’s absence at the front, and while he was sending her as much as 70 crowns a month. Besides this, she had already received a large sum of money from her (Frau M.’s) husband, while his wife and children had to live in hunger and misery. Some of her husband’s comrades had informed her that he and Frau K. had visited public-houses together and remained there drinking late into the night. The accused woman had once actually asked the husband of the accuser, in the presence of several soldiers, whether he would not soon leave his “old woman” and come to her, and the caretaker of the house where Frau K. lived had repeatedly seen the plaintiff’s husband in Frau K.’s room, in a state of complete undress. Yesterday, before a magistrate in the Leopoldstadt, Frau K. denied knowing M. at all: any intimate relations between them were out of the question, she said. Albertine M., a witness, however, gave evidence of having surprised Frau K. in the act of kissing the accuser’s husband.
Cf. _Totem und Tabu_, 1913. Footnote 45: [_Zwangsneurose_, sometimes called in English compulsion-neurosis.—TR.] Footnote 46: E. Toulouse, _Émile Zola. Enquête medico-psychologique._ Paris, 1896. Footnote 47: See p. 222. Footnote 48: Ferenczi, _Contributions to Psycho-Analysis_. English translation by Ernest Jones, 1916. Chap. viii, p. 181. Footnote 49: [I.e. Grave’s disease, exophthalmic goitre.—TR.] Footnote 50: [_Angst._ The German word denotes a more intense feeling than the English ‘anxiety’; the latter however, derived from the same root, has become established as the technical English term.—TR.] Footnote 51: [In Germany it replaces the use of “duck” for this purpose in English.—TR.] Footnote 52: [Taken, with very slight modifications, from Ernest Dowden’s translation.—TR.] Footnote 53: [This name is based on a reference to a relationship with an older person in early life.—TR.]
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