Freud and Cocaine/ Freud and Otto Gross/ Psychoanalysis and Addiction

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A certain amount of attention has recently been paid to Freud’s early drug episode, his “love affair with cocaine” (1884- 1887), including its possible relationship to the birth of psychoanalysis. Desiring early fame and material success, Freud looked for a key in medicine and thought he had found it in cocaine. Freud championed the drug in glowing terms; he called it, Stanley Edgar Hyman writes, his “magic carpet” and “thrust it on all and sundry, including his sisters, friends, patients, colleagues–everyone” (1954:17). He contributed to the death of a dear friend, believing that cocaine would wean Ernst Fleischl von Marxow from his addiction to morphine: Fleischl died of drug poisoning with Freud nursing him.
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