Wilhelm Fliess (1858-1928) was a Berlin ear-nose-and-throat doctor and a very close friend of Sigmund Freud. Fleiss was the originator of a theory called reflex nasal neurosis, which was based on his belief the there was a profound relationship between the nose and the genitals. He treated problems such as PMS and "hysteria" by putting cocaine up his patients' noses and/or surgically removing their turbinate bones or nasal conchae. In one disastrous instance, Freud referred his patient Emma Eckstein to Fleiss for surgery. Fleiss removed Eckstein's turbinate bone in a horrifically botched procecure that left the patient "permanently disfigured, with the left side of her face caved in" (Wikipedia). Eckstein remained friends with Freud, adopted his theories (one of which was that the prolonged hemorrhaging in her nose was the result of repressed longings for Freud), and became a psychoanalyst herself.
I know back in '75 I treated a lot of female hysteria by packing their noses with yayo as an opening gambit...
Posted by: Jake | August 07, 2007 at 11:15 AM
Is there ANYONE that Freud DID NOT think wanted to bed him? I hate Freud. Dead or alive.
Posted by: Julie | August 07, 2007 at 03:11 PM
Repressed yearnings for Freud. You want him. Face it. I knows it.
Posted by: Ana | August 07, 2007 at 10:47 PM