Freud Cocaine Quotes

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are forward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough, or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. -- A love letter from Freud to his fiancée.

I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

Such elusive puzzles recall the historian's basic dilemma: the absence of evidence does not always signify evidence of absence. In the end, we will likely never know.

Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.

It’s easy to look back at how little Freud and Pemberton understood of cocaine with a sense of superiority. We teach our children that cocaine is dangerous, and it’s hard to believe that experts considered the drug a panacea only a century ago. But perhaps our sense of superiority is misplaced. Just as cocaine charmed Freud and Pemberton, today we’re enamored of technology. We’re willing to overlook its costs for its many gleaming benefits:

Would you like to try some cocaine?” Freud offered, “I think you will find it picks you up quite nicely.” “No thanks,” God declined, holding his soft hands up to show his resistance.

It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud’s later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally premised on the idea that mental illness arises from unconscious psychological conflicts, his papers on cocaine make him one of the fathers of biological psychiatry, which is governed by the notion that mental distress is partly caused by a physical or chemical malfunction that can be treated with drugs.

He may of course resume it at any time. Such is the curse of enslavement to drugs. It would be interesting to know,” he added, with seeming irrelevancy, “how he became involved with cocaine.’ “I have always known him to keep it about his rooms,” I answered truthfully. “He says he takes it because of boredom, lack of activity.” Freud turned and smiled at me, his features displaying the infinite and nameless wisdom and compassion I had noticed the moment I first set eyes on him. “That is not the reason a man pursues such a path to destruction,” he said softly.

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Two decades before Freud wrote “Über Coca,” a Confederate Army colonel became addicted to morphine after he was injured during the final battle of the American Civil War. He, too, believed he could overcome his morphine addiction with a cocaine-laced tincture. He was wrong, but his medicine ultimately became one of the most widely consumed substances on Earth.

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