ABSTRACT
Victor Tausk made some lasting contributions to analytic theory and therapy, which have been incorporated in the works of such contemporary thinkers as Bruno Bettelheim and Erik Erikson. Tausk’s problem with women was the reason for his coming to Sigmund Freud for treatment. Embodying all Helene Deutsch own negative impulses to Freud in the person of Tausk, she may well have made the problem between the two men worse, as she submitted to Tausk’s seductive appeal and transmitted his story in her analysis with Freud. Tausk had had more than his share of human troubles. Married at the age of twenty-one to a girl he had made pregnant, dissatisfied with his early career as a lawyer in Bosnia, in 1905 he separated from his wife and two sons and moved to Berlin as a journalist. Freud, despite inevitable human failings, was a great man and a powerful innovator in the history of ideas.
