thank you Norm, can't wait to read it!
best wishes,
Solange

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From: Norm Rosenblood
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 8:57 PM
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Subject: Re: Fwd: BELLE VUE: Sigmund Freud, Minna Bernays, and the Meaning 
of Dreams

Sounds like a lot of things going on in BELLE VUE:

A refined view of the primal scene perhaps.


Norm Rosenblood














Norman Rosenblood, Ph.D., Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst
Co-director, Hamilton Centre for Psychoanalysis
8 Mayfair Place
Hamilton, Ontario
L8S 4G1

On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Norman Holland wrote:

> Hi, PSYARTers, FYI, Norm
>
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> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:50 PM
> Subject: BELLE VUE: Sigmund Freud, Minna Bernays, and the Meaning of 
> Dreams
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
>
> **
> Dear Professor Holland:
>
>
> I want to alert you to my recently published historical novel, BELLE
> VUE, *Sigmund
> Freud, Minna Bernays, and the Meaning of Dreams*. In it psychoanalysis
> plays a pivotal role.  It is available in eBook, paperback and hardcover
> versions from Amazon, Foyles, Barnes & Noble, as well as other major book
> outlets.  Would you be interested in reviewing it in your journal?  If
> so, I would be happy to send you a hardcover version.****
>
> ** **
>
> A brief summary of the novel.  It is July 24, 1895. Sigmund Freud and his
> family are staying for the summer at the Belle Vue resort in the Alpine
> foothills overlooking ****Vienna****. His marriage to his wife Martha is
> swiftly deteriorating, he is in the midst of a love affair with his
> brilliant but unpredictable sister-in-law, Minna, his mother-in-law, Mrs.
> Bernays, despises him, and he has just that morning completed his first
> full interpretation of a dream, marking a revolution in our understanding
> of the human mind.
>
> BELLE VUE is a novel of that day. It is the story of four people
> desperately pursuing their own special dreams. The frequently strident and
> sometimes humorous interactions among the four, as they seek greater
> meaning in their lives, provide the dynamic tension that propels the novel
> forward to an unusual but very “psychoanalytic” conclusion. It is also the
> story of a brilliant man at the most critical moment of his young career.
>
> Mrs. Bernays is seeking a happy denouement to a life of struggle and
> hardship and is looking to her son-in-law, Sigmund Freud, to help her
> achieve that goal. However, he seems more interested in pursuing research
> on what she considers wild-eyed ideas which haven’t as yet resulted in
> anything, except ridicule from his medical colleagues. Martha Freud is
> pregnant (with the couple’s sixth child in the last nine years). Unable to
> appreciate her husband’s pioneering research and lacking self-confidence,
> she is desperate to save her crumbling marriage and find a more meaningful
> function in life beyond her wearisome *Hausfrau* role.
>
> Sigmund Freud, gifted but prickly and emotionally inaccessible, is hell
> bent on achieving success. His ideas, however, are rejected by his peers,
> primarily because of their revolutionary nature, which includes an 
> emphasis
> on infantile sexuality and a conviction that dreams have meaning and can
> serve as a window into the unconscious mind. Freud finds refuge for his
> battered self-esteem in the arms of his alluring and intellectually
> talented sister-in-law, Minna Bernays, a 20th Century “New Woman” who is 
> as
> different from his Victorian wife as day is from night.
>
> Yet Freud has a dilemma. He is caught between two powerful desires--his
> love for Minna and his quest for fame, and he does not know how he can 
> have
> both.
>
> For many decades controversy has surrounded the exact nature of Freud’s
> relationship with his sister-in-law. The idea that they had a 20-years
> affair was first mentioned by Carl Gustav Jung, an early supporter of
> Freud’s and later a critic. He said Minna had revealed the affair in
> private conversations with him. Freudians denied the allegations but
> recently a German scholar, who is also a trained Freudian psychoanalyst,
> found evidence to support the contention. ****
>
>
> In a Swiss hotel registration book from the late 19th Century he found the
> notation, *Herr Doktor Sigm. Freud und Frau*, written in Freud’s
> handwriting. This was a holiday that Freud and Minna took alone.
>
> My background with regard to Freud and psychoanalysis began with two years
> of study under Dr. Bruno Bettelheim, a Vienna-trained Freudian
> psychoanalyst who at the time was professor of psychiatry at the ****
> University** of **Chicago**** (where I received my Ph.D. in the history 
> and
> philosophy of science). I spent an additional eight years doing research 
> on
> Freud, his family and the *fin de siècle* period in ****Austria****. ****
>
> ** **
>
> My publications include poems, short stories and a major biography of
> Charles Darwin, which appeared as a university press book in the **United
> States** and a prominent trade title in ****Great Britain****. It was
> widely reviewed, most favorably. Harvard professor Richard Lewontin, in 
> the
> *New York Review of Books*, writes: “Barry Gale has changed all that…[the
> traditional view of ****Darwin****]…What is appealing in Gale’s work is a
> picture of a life in the social community of science that corresponds to
> our everyday experience of how careers are built.” Other reviews appeared
> in the *New Scientist*, *Times Literary Supplement, Isis, London Review of
> Books*, etc. I’ve taught at **Cambridge** (where I was a National Science
> Foundation Dissertation Fellow) and Johns Hopkins (at the ****Paul** 
> **H.**
> **Nitze** **School**** for Advanced International Studies).
>
> Barry G. Gale
> 3735 N. Vernon St.
> Arlington, VA 22207
> 703-532-7257 land, 703-300-3439 cell
> [log in to unmask]****
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