Sigmund Freud had his problems. He smoked 20 cigars a day most of his life and ended up having thirty operations for mouth cancer. He determined that cocaine was good for his patients and got hooked on it for several years. He introduced his fiancé to it and a friend who ended up dying from a “cocaine incident”. He eventually kicked the habit, but he remained a psychosomatic. He had agoraphobia (fear of crowded spaces) and he feared dying. Although he advanced his Theory of Sexuality, he stopped having sex with his wife because he decided it was hindering his work. Many historians believed that at the same time he conducted an affair with his wife’s sister, who lived with them. Freud fled his native Austria in 1938 as a result of the Anschluss (the annexation of Austria by Germany) and went to London. Dying of mouth cancer, he convinced his doctor to overdose him on morphine.
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