European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 the stars and stripes Friday june 24, 1977 new York Tim tier. Abram Kardoner passed his time in Vienna in 1921 on the Couch of analyst Sigmund Freud. Memories of Sigmund Freud he just talked to me by Anna Quin Lennew York times Abram Kahn Ink has had accomplish ments of great note since then. He has made a name for himself As a Psychia Trist a writer a teacher and a researcher. But perhaps never again will he enjoy the sort of Golden boy glow he picked up in 1921 when it became known How he passed his Lime on the Couch at Berg Gasse 19 in Vienna. He talked to new says or. Kardiner now. Simply separated from the events by the Miles the years and the deaths of in irly everyone involved. Yet he can still conjure up or Felly. Down to the brass Spittoon the consulting room where he was Psychoanal Zed by Sigmund Freud and later lionized by the other patient students because Freud actually spoke to him during the session. And i can Tell you Why said the doctor seated in the consulting room High Over Park Avenue inner York where he still sees patients. I told a very interesting Story and i did not argue with his interpretation of its or. Kardiner now 85 years old chuckled. I gather that he did not talk to the others and they could not understand Why he talked perhaps at that Lime his Peers Felt More professional paranoia but x years later or. Kar diner s sessions with the father of psycho ulysls still Confer special distinction. A Leader of the environmental school which stresses the interplay of psyche and culture and a founder of first psychoanalytic training school in the United Stales or. Kardiner is one of four individuals still living who were Analysed by Freud. Or. Roy Grinker of Chicago recon Fly Dischar Gedas a a tical from a Hospital there says he has Noth ing to add to published reports and Helene Deutsch one of Freud s most fabled woman colleagues now living in Cambridge. Mass. Says her analysis is too personal for Public consumption. Lamply Doc Root. A Friend of or. Anna Freud a who lives in Amsterdam is said to follow the daughter s Lead ingot discussing the father publicly. Or. Kardiner however has been restrained either by hit health which is Good nor the inti mate nature of his six months in therapy which he says is historically unimportant there fore be has written a popular Memoir of his sessions with Freud entitled naturally my analysis with Freud in which be reveals the kind of facts about Bis childhood and Parent that most people prefer confined to their psychiatrists offices. At my age that is of very Small consequence said or. Kardiner. I thought it was More important to put on record what Freud actually did As a therapist. There Are not Many sources most people keep quiet their enjoyed every minute i spent with Freud and i never forgot a word he said. He was a very dear human being a Darling. He was a Man with a Capac Ity for eloquence that is rare to find anywhere in the world. I know that is not the immediate impression. I too had a sense of Awe which i immediately los because he was such a regular Guy. He was a rather Short Man you know Only about 5 feet 6." or. Kardiner who is also a rather Short Man Birdlike and bespectacled did not let his reverence for Freud color his later Progress in psychoanalytic thought. He is an adaption Al freudian whose studies of primitive tribes have crossed the disciplinary lines dividing psychiatry from anthropology and sociology. Ana he has rejected Freud s libido theories of sex As the master drive but retained his belief in the theories of the unconscious. Or. Kardiner went to Freud As a patient in october 1921 after graduating from City Colleg and Cornell medical school. Freud set two conditions for the analysis that it last Only six months and that he be paid $19 a cession in american dollars which be called effective notes compared with the evaluated austrian currency. And so they began the Young Man to Tell the Story of his childhood in a three room apartment on Orchard Street on the lower East Side left wit neighbors much of the time while his father peddled pens on Street Comers later raised by his Stepmother who gave his life some Structure but was the source of much of his sexual confusion Freud to interrupt with comments on his patient s identification with his dead Mother of unconscious hatred for his father with interpretations of Kardiner s dreams and once with a question about his patient s previous analysis in new York which Kardiner had found discouraging and unproductive. At the end of the first session he said Freud said Well you Are a very interesting human being and i think we can do Good work Here. But you arc wrong when you say you got nothing out of your pre Vious analysis you did get something and then he said in German Eink Ine neuroses a Little Neu set a tone for their relationship. He would admit to me privately what he would not say publicly or. Kardiner said. Once i mentioned his theory of primal parricide and he said of. Don t take that seriously i made that up on a rain sunday afternoon. But woe to you if publicly you really did not take it seriously. He synthesized my behaviour into a consistent response. The interpretation of dreams is not a Rule of thumb matter it has to do with the total gestalt. I you Are in Harmony with your patients you can feel your Way. I could have been under analysis for 10years and not been Able to fathom the dreams that Freud explained in one there was for example. Or. Kardiner s life Long fear of masks which had always puzzled him. It did not Puzzle Freud who suggested that As a child Kardiner had been the one to Dis cover is Mother s death. Although he had no conscious memory of it the patient asked his sister who confirmed that As a Tod Dler he had indeed been playing at his Mother s bed Side when she died and Naff been found crying beside her when he could not awaken believe Freud was the Only real Genius i have Ever or. Kardiner said after narrating that Story although of course i could not see ahead into the future and see what his place in history would i am in the process of becoming a reformed Saver. It s hereditary you know. In addition to an attic full of disposables my grandmother was squared about by one current and four former husbands who were devoted to her. She could never discard anything. My Mother was just As bad. She had a stove drawer that had everything in it from a rolling pin with no handles to Sheet music for a harpsichord to the yellowed death notice of her iceman who died in 1937. The symptoms began to show up in me when 1 was a Small child. The neighbors called me the curb every monday i d go up and Down the Street picking my Way through their trash for a lampshade Boxton Flower pot or a single Boot. By the time i was in High school i had a collection of 36 pen wipers three pictures of Sonja Henie and four of Ann Sheridan from old Billfold a lunch Box with Snow White and seven dwarfs 15 composition notebooks a memory s Garden a paperweight of Shirley Temple As Heidi. At wits end As stubs from the circus a splint from a first Aid class an invitation to Helen George s fifth birthday party a tooth possibly human and 136 issues of girl s life. By the time i was married a certain pattern had begun to develop. I began to Hoard things when no one was around. Iwasyn t just your average social collector anymore. Then i began to lie about Bow much i was saving. I once told someone i Only saved two or three milk Cartons to make candles out of at Christmas when unreality i had 1500 Cartons in the basement. In Lime my saving became More than i could handle and i became an embarrassment. I la never forget the time i was saving old cans and jerked one away from our i told everyone i could Stop saving anytime i wanted to. But when i tried to throw away 12 old Grade cards knew i was lying to myself. One afternoon i was slipping two More twist ties into Box under the sink when i Felt someone looking Over my Shower. It was my daughter. What Are you doing nothing 1 said closing the drawer quickly you re saving twist ties. Why there must be thou Sands in there. What for be Usu "1 did t want you to see me like this i whimpered. Mom Don t you think i know How much Tou save the old mama envelopes the old calendars the rubber bands from newspapers the dried out Felt tip pens she wiped her eyes with a tissue and threw it into7he waste As i retrieved it and laundered it under the faucet i assured her. I can quit anytime i want
