The Brintzinghoffer's

[Roma Jean Turner]

A friend of mine who teaches psychology at some of the colleges here told me something that I had never heard before.  She said that when Freud was putting his theories together, that most of his patients were from the upper classes of the time, because they were the only ones who could afford his services.    She said that he discovered that sexual abuse and incest were so common that he began to talk about it.  However, given the social class he was dealing with he was basically told to drop the subject if he wished to continue having any support for his work.  She states that he modified his work in such a way as to leave that out.  Now, I haven't spent any time reading any Freud in many a year, but found that so interesting.

I am sure the people of the time would have considered it none of their business and looked the other way, as society still does a great deal of the time today.