The Stonehenge Letters. Harry Karlinsky

The Stonehenge Letters - Harry Karlinsky


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       Trilithons B and C from the south-west, Stonehenge, c. 1867.

       Dedication

      For Minnie and Will

       They look upon me as pretty much of a monomaniac, while I have the distinct feeling that I have touched upon one of the great secrets of nature.

      Sigmund Freud, Letter to Wilhelm Fliess, 21 May 1894

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Epigraph

       Chapter 7. The Secret Codicil

       Chapter 8. The Royal Swedish Academy of History, Letters, and Antiquities

       Chapter 9. A Sentimental and Practical Guide to Stonehenge

       Part Three: The Mystery of Stonehenge

       Chapter 10. Great Stones Undermined by Worms

       Chapter 11. When Stonehenge was New

       Chapter 12. Seaborne Stones

       Chapter 13. The Curve of Knowns

       Part Four: Deliberations

       Chapter 14. 10 December 1911

       Chapter 15. The Grand Hôtel

       Chapter 16. Trivial and Flawed

       Chapter 17. Albert Einstein

       Chapter 18. Dear Lady Antrobus

       Part Five: Epilogue

       Postscripts

       Appendix I: A Psychological Autopsy – A Diagnostic Listing of Alfred Nobel’s Dominant Personality Traits, Defence Mechanisms, and Primary Mental Disorders

       Appendix II: Acute Radiation Poisoning – Psychosomatic Variant

       Footnotes

       Bibliography

       Author’s Notes and Acknowledgments

       Sources for Quotations

       Also by Harry Karlinsky

       Credits for Illustrations

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       INTRODUCTION

       THE KNÄPPSKALLE FILE

      As a (now retired) psychiatrist and amateur historian, I had long been vexed that the clearly deserving Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) had never received the Nobel Prize. In my younger years I had attempted to uncover the reason for this remarkable omission by contacting the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, the overarching body responsible for the administration of the Nobel Prizes. I was politely but firmly informed that, according to the foundation’s statutory rules, ‘Proposals received for the award of a prize, and investigations and opinions concerning the award of a prize, may not be divulged’. This stipulation meant that neither the names of those nominated for a Nobel Prize nor the subsequent prize deliberations were made known to the public. As it was more patiently explained to me, the Nobel Foundation could not and would not confirm whether Freud had ever been under consideration for the prize, let alone release the adjudicative details of his evaluation had


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