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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Looking for Eel Testicles?

While doing a little Wikipedia reading on Sigmund Freud, I happened across a description of some of his early research, which may have accounted for some of this later concepts/opinions (I am not making any value judgements here).

..."After planning to study law, Freud joined the medical faculty at University of Vienna to study under Darwinist Prof. Karl Claus. At that time, Eel life history was still unknown, and due to their mysterious origins and migrations, a racist association was often made between eels and Jews and Gypsies. In search for their male sex organs, Freud spent four weeks at the Austrian zoological research station in Triest, dissecting hundreds of eels without finding more than his predecessors such as Simon von Syrski. In 1876, he published his first paper about "the testicles of eels" in the “Mitteilungen der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften”, conceding that he could not solve the matter either. Frustrated by the lack of success which would have gained him fame, and disgusted by the blood and gore, Freud chose to change his course of study. Biographers like Siegfried Bernfeld wonder if and how this early episode was significant for his later work regarding hidden sexuality and frustrations.[2][3][4]" [Emphasis added.]

He reportedly experienced similar disappointing results in his search for the testicles of snails and slugs and the additional slime made the process worse.

And the search of jellyfish testicles was an unmitigated disaster, as lab assistant Igor (grandfather of Algore) failed to remove all of the stinging cells from the tentacles.

[The lab conversation reportedly went something like this:

SF: "Ow!, Ow! Damn! Ouch!" (imagine a German accent). "I-gor! You didn't remove all of the stinging cells. No jellyfish fritters for you tonight!"

IGOR: "Sorry master."

SF: "By the way, how were the escargot last week?"

IGOR: "They were OK, but they were a little cut-up and the ones without shells were a little strange."

Note: This is a re-creation, as the original transcripts have been lost.]

When we were young, many of us spent our time searching for love, adventure, fame, fortune, fun,...

Sigmund Freud searched for - eel testicles.

(Was this before or after the cocaine?)

And people think geologists are weird.

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