Ernest Jones was not called ‘Freud’s Rottweiler’ for nothing. In September 1933, when Nazi discrimination laws were taking their toll and Jewish shrinks were queuing to leave Germany, Jones, president of the International Psychoanalytic Association, dared to ask his mentor Sigmund Freud why members of his profession were so neurotic. They seemed to spend so much time squabbling among themselves.

Typically, it was a rhetorical question, which he answered himself. One reason was that they were neurotic by definition; otherwise they would not have chosen that field. In addition, they were overworked and, thirdly, they had not been sufficiently analysed.

Sep 2006

The Old Man & the Signorina

No More Respected and More Read than Johnson

Dreaming of Gondar

A Case of Identity

Upwards from Everest

The Great Globe Itself

Day of the Journalist

Andrew Lycett Talks To Jan Morris

Half The World Away

Following The Pharohs

Love Behind A Mask

1968 And All That

Charm, Guile and Gab

Camouflage Expert

Gertrude Stein’s Bra

Murder Most Fouled-Up

For the Sake of Dahoum

The Adventure of the Concealed Manuscript

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Making A Killing

Inspector Bucket Calls

The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief

Who’s Listening In?

‘Drink Up, Dear’

Occult Finish

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