Freud and Idealization.

But within a year she became pregnant with a brother, Julius, who was born when Sigmund was 19 months old (Whitebook says on p. 37, "when Sigmund was eleven months old"! The Freud who identified with Moses might have found this development a bit diminishing, but I like to think a different Freud, Loewald's "unofficial Freud", would recognize it as an acceptance of reality. Whitebook describes Freud's 'weekly game of Tarock while schmoozing with his brethren at [the Jewish service organization] the B'nai B'rith' (p. 320), and in his address to the B'nai B'rith in 1926, Freud spoke of his attraction to "Jewry and Jews" as "irresistible" (1926, p. 274). It devotes four chapters to Freud's "homosexual" love affairs (Whitebook doesn't avoid such language) with Fliess and Jung, and comments on the psychological significance of Freud's "phallologocentrism" - his commitment to "science" seen as a masculinist posture. [Extracted from the article]