July 9, 2004

The Two Freuds

By MIKITA BROTTMAN

I knew there was something a little old-fashioned about my psychoanalytic training institute when I saw a note in the catalog mentioning that smoking was permitted in the building -- Smoking? In New York? In the workplace? -- but only in the director's office. Ah, of course. I immediately thought of Freud and his famous cigars. The director is a small, elderly gentleman with a white beard and a heavy German accent. His office contains the traditional analytic couch and is cluttered

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