Hard To Believe? Edgar Allan Poe and Freud

Greetings Again,

We begin the new month of November by posting an article on Edgar Allan Poe and Freud’s plagiarizing of his work. This, I believe, is a new chapter in the history of exposing Freud’s criminality and the uses he made of great literary writers to covertly confess to his serial killer nature. Please take a look at the two pieces (so far) on this subject. The first was our positing of Poe’s murder story “The Imp of Perverseness” along with a brief commentary showing, in some cases, remarkable almost word for word uses of Poe by Freud. This new piece is an amassing of additional evidence that Freud “stole” parts for his theory from Poe’s murder stories. Any feedback will be appreciated.

Below is a website visitor and reader of my book Passion for Murder. She expresses her reluctance to believe Freud was a Serial Killer


It is difficult to believe, mainly, I think because it is so dramatic and sensational -- kind of like the theories of who was the real "Jack the Ripper" ?  Theories about Jack having been some famous person we already know instead of some obscure criminal, are titillating, but ultimately hard to swallow. It's like those people who explore their "past lives" and always turn out to have been a Russian princess or Sir Lancelot, and never a fishwife or an unemployed shepherd.   We've been conditioned to get excited about such claims and then to say to ourselves, "Wait a minute -- this is just too sensational and explosive to be true!"

But I am definitely open to being convinced.  In no way have I rejected your claim.  And  I absolutely believe that  your  book should be read and seriously examined  by  many more  people  than  it  has  been.   I hope the reprint  and the new book will receive a LOT of publicity.   All your careful research deserves to be taken very seriously.  

Marilyn


I responded to Marilyn with the following remarks, which addresses her above remarks and her questions about Freud and Edgar Allen Poe:

Marilyn,
 
Thanks again for taking time to respond to my work. I'm glad you expressed your reservations about whether Freud
actually murdered anyone as opposed to his machinations to promote his theories, by apparently any means. In your reservation of whether Freud actually killed anyone you join Elizabeth Thornton, and Elivesha Velikovsky, Paul Scagnelli, and others who have confessed the same reservations to me.  
 
Ms. Thornton, whom I cite
in extenso in my posted piece on the website, "Freudgate 08", was the first woman to be admitted to the Royal Academy of Science as a Lay Fellow Historian of Science. She herself wrote The Freudian Fallacy an excellent landmark book on Freud which proves he was a severe cocaine addict at the time he was writing his theories and that he exhibited very strong homicidal tendencies as one of the symptoms of severe cocaine addiction. She became a supporter of mine and a correspondent.
 
Elivesha Velikovsky, an accomplished violinist and artist whose works are featured in the New York Museum of Art, was a good friend of mine (wife of Immanuel Velikovsky, author of
Worlds In Collision), who knew Freud, and her husband corresponded with him and wrote the first psychoanalysis of him ever—and he credited me with the correct analysis of Freud as a “homicidal maniac.”  
 
Both these women had the same reservation as you--they hesitated to accept that Freud
really killed anyone as opposed to being homicidal, even a homicidal maniac. Between the thought and the deed falls the shadow!
 
Even Dr. Paul Scagnelli, professor of psychology and clinical psychologist who wrote a large book, inspired by my work,
Deadly Dr. Freud and himself who wrote large books on Freud's murder compulsions and claims that Freud killed his real father, Emmanuel, nominally his "brother"--throughout calls Freud "master" adds even more potential victims to the list--yet even he psychologically hesitated, he confessed, to fully accept Freud "actually" killed people and was, in fact, a serial killer.

Indeed, Scagnelli, describes his own symptoms upon reading my work for the first time. He confesses he was physically ill. He wrote of his "compelling emotional basis for my rejection of Miller's thesis. . . I was emotionally incapable of giving real credence to Miller's ideas. . . The idea seemed bizarre, and made me experience a nauseous rejection in the weeks and months following my first reading of Miller's strange book. etc." You get the point. So Velikovsky, who corresponded with and visited Freud in his home (Elevesha was a Viennese Jew, as Freud was), Elizabeth, who herself found him dangerously homicidal, and Paul, who himself, following my work, claimed Freud killed John (but at a different time than I indicated because he was unaware of facts that invalidate his time frame) and Emmanuel Freud, Freud’s real father--even then, it was hard for all of them to believe he "really" killed people. O.J. Simpson couldn't be convicted and I may not be able to convict Freud either, at least until the public gets “used to the idea.”
 
In my new book I intend to go into more detail on 5 of Freud's murders. In
Passion for Murder I wanted to get on record my thesis and the foundation evidence. Actually, I think a careful study of my book does offer sufficient proof that Freud looks like a serial killer, walks like a serial killer, and quacks like a serial killer--now I will follow up with detailed info of those he killed. In 1984 the criterion for indentifying a serial killer had not yet been developed by the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI at Quantico laboratories. That actually came out in late 1984, after publication for my work. This is a great boon for me. I spoke in PFM of Freud's Homicidal Mania, We have learned a great deal about serial killers since publication of my work. And I myself was amazed at how Freud's hand (unlike O.J.'s?) fit into the glove. The focus of the serial killer profile now offers a great opportunity to show how Freud absolutely fits the profile--indeed, one might say the profile was made to fit! Since even among murderers, serial killers are a rare minority, we are able to "trace the murderer" with his unique "fingerprints."
 
Though I have already written a whole book on SFSK (Sigmund Freud Serial Killer) I was amazed to read in Poe, such extraordinary detail of his murderer in 
The Imp of Perverseness that I find difficult to believe Freud did not plagiarize Poe to show his "murderer feathers" in full plume. Serial killers love to toy with the police, detectives, journalists--they love to claim their trophies without getting caught. This is what is at the heart of Freud's murder confessions.

Serial killers have all kinds of ways of making and taking murder trophies. Some take an object, a driver’s license, a lock of hair, strip their skin off and make a purse of it, what have you. Freud planted his trophies in his books—which is not to say he did not also take other physical trophies from his victims. Did you know that Freud used to take heads and figurines of his "old gods" archeological collection to the dinner table with him and set it before him when he ate? Did you know his office was adorned with pictures of mummies, heads of statues, was dark, morbid and had the smell of death about it--as reported by his visitors. Did you know that at his beside he kept a funeral urn filled with water for his nightly needs, and that he wrote in his letters that he longed to drink out of the skull of his enemies? 

I could go on and on. These are just a few of the outward signs of the serial killer, much like Dahmer and many another serial killer. Freud's physical characteristics and symptomology, his trolling, confessions of a deep dark pit of blackness in his soul, his bipolar frenzies, his aural phase, etc., etc. I'll touch on more of this soon and post new evidence of Freud’s serial killer characteristics on my website.

ELM

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Posted on: 11/2/2008 at 2:20 PM
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