ABSTRACT
Sigmund Freud was a great writer, crystal clear while being most scientifically original, compelling and persuasive while being most improbable. His powerful sense of the dramatic has attracted sympathizers to his views, but the misleadingly ominous sound of some of his concepts has alienated others. Even in entitling his favorite cases he liked to shock, as with the Wolf-Man, his most famous patient. Freud saw the Wolf-Man as beset by ambivalent feelings toward his father and subsequent father surrogates, holding that his patient’s fear of his father, and simultaneous desire for sexual gratification by him, dominated his later life. The Wolf-Man’s sexual practices, author believe, influenced Freud’s reconstruction of the supposed infantile neurosis, and non-reproductive sexuality as well seems to have played a more interesting part in Freud’s thought than has been acknowledged. Freud’s special interest in the Wolf-Man might have been partly fueled by, the anal intercourse that Freud disguised in writing up his case.
