The Last Days of Sigmund Freud
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"When Anna was summoned to Gestapo headquarters and barely managed to avoid being sent to a camp, Freud at last roused...
"We also cannot know for certain how much Sauerwald did or even could do to help Freud’s four sisters, who remained in Austria, and whom he visited later in the war and may have protected. The four died in the camps soon after Sauerwald was transferred to the Luftwaffe."
Life's a mess. We're all many things, all the time. We are the sum of all our feelings. If I've lived all my life in one place, having grown attached to it, it would be very difficult for me to decide to leave it for good.
And attaching to Freud more foreknowledge just because he happened to be Freud, the intellectual, is simply to deny him his humanity.
This whole article could perhaps be summed up thus: Freud was just like all of us, attached to the past, blind about the future, hoping for the best even at the worst of times.