Brother animal : the story of Freud and Tausk

Abstract

major figure among pre-World War I psychoanalysts, Victor Tausk was perhaps Sigmund Freud's most brilliant pupil--the most prominently out-standing in opinion of Lou Andreas-Salome. Tausk craved recognition for originality of his work, and a fierce rivalry developed between pupil and mentor. Tausk, who felt a deep and neurotic dependence on Freud, was totally consumed in struggle. Freud's final rejection of his follower, and particularly unfortunate manner in which it was carried out, was followed by Tausk's bizarre suicide--and by an official silence that has all but obliterated his name from annals of psychoanalysis. Arthur Koestler called Brother Animal A very important and original contribution to history of psychoanalytic movement and beyond that to history of ideas, and Maxwell Geismar said it was the best treatment of Freud and that remarkable group of his original disciples that 1 have read. It reads as if Mr. Roazen was right there at time, inside inner circle.

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