but the prospects of so doing were poor. Besides, I was eager to see Vienna. The University of Czernowitz had no medical faculty. The study of medicine offered a good reason for me to go to Vienna.
At the final examination everybody was asked to state what he was going to study. I answered, “German and history.” The good old principal, Wolf, called out, “You ought to become a journalist.” I had not thought of this career before, but I knew that since I had a definite talent in this direction, I could fall back upon it in an emergency.
Then came a joyful vacation time. The governor of the county, Baron W., invited me to stay with him on his estate. I had tutored his son, a fellow student, successfully and now I was to coach another son in Latin.
At Baron W.’s I learned about the lives of aristocrats from many angles. There was always an abundance of guests, and they did not think that the baron would have invited a Jew. Thus I had the opportunity to listen to many frank and unrestrained anti-Semitic talks. I was astounded. I had not realized that the Jew played such a part in the discussions of Gentiles. I felt sorry for these guests. Even then I realized that by blaming the Jew for all of their own failings and by projecting their own guilt feelings upon him, they were tragically depriving themselves of the opportunity for a radical improvement and spiritual progress.
1 “Analyse der Phobie eines fünfjährigen Knaben” (Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy), Coll. Papers, Vol. VIII, pp. 127-264 (German edition).
2 Macaulay Co., New York, 1931.
3 Bukovina is now in the U.S.S.R.—The Editor.
4 This experience, together with similar experiences of his friends, was later used as a basis for Stekel’s first medical paper on the Sex Life in Children. It was published independently of Freud who later quoted from it in one of his early works on infantile sexuality.—The Editor.
1 He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949.—The Editor.
2 Notice that Stekel uses the term “parapath” which he proposed for “neurotic.”—The Editor.
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