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FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1939)

Lot 43
13.12.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1105569
Lot 43 | FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1939)
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£ 7 000 – 10 000
FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1939)

Freud, S.

Autograph letter signed ('Freud') to [Percy] Allen, Berggasse 19, Vienna, 1 January 1936

In English. Two pages, 230 x 151mm, printed address heading.



A letter in English on the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship. Freud acknowledges with pleasure Allen's book The Life Story of Edward de Vere as "William Shakespeare", and also another book on the same subject; 'I hope you received the poor equivalent from my son'. He goes on to compare resistance to Allen's theories on Shakespearean authorship to resistance to psychoanalysis:



What you say about having experienced reactions of resistance similar to those I had to face does not surprise me at all. Human behaviour does not change much with climate latitude nationality etc. But I am confident that the resistance against Edward de Vere as Shakespeare, will collapse at a time when psychoanalysis is still far from being acknowledged. / My conviction in the Sh[akespeare] problem has grown stronger and deeper rooted than before. But I am aware of all the obscurities still existant [sic] and especially I cannot bring myself to believe in your interpretation of the sonnets and in your surmises about d.V. relations with Elizabeths [sic].



Percy Allen (1875-1959) was a leading proponent of the theory that the true author of Shakespeare's plays was Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, to which he added an idiosyncratic twist with the proposition that Oxford had fathered a child with Elizabeth I.

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