On Freud's admiration for Beethoven and his "splendid creations"

Chumaceiro, Cora L. Díaz de

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“…While the importance of psychoanalytic contributions to the understanding of music in general [45][46][47][48] and the biography and works of Beethoven in particular [49][50][51][52] is acknowledged, the focus of the following is on a possible psychiatric diagnosis of Beethoven, notably the placement of Beethoven on the affective continuum between temperament and full-blown bipolar disorder.…”

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Ludwig van Beethoven—a psychiatric perspective

Erfurth

2021

Wien Med Wochenschr

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SummaryBiographical accounts of famous artists usually try to relate the life story to the works (and vice versa). This gives the work a special “colour”, often the context for understanding for today’s recipients. This interrelation is complex and often judgmental, sometimes manipulative. Thus, medical (including psychiatric), characterological and psychodynamic assessments and interpretations must be made with great caution. Primary sources may be scanty and diagnostic concepts may have changed (Mozart died of hitzigem Frieselfieber [prickly heat fever]; in Hölderlin’s lifetime, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder did not yet “exist”). The attempt at a diagnostic classification often says more about the author and his time than about the artist (for example, the assessment of Robert Schumann’s or Friedrich Hölderlin’s mental illness). Against this background, elements of Ludwig van Beethoven’s biography are presented from a psychiatric perspective. In summary, Beethoven can be diagnosed with an alcohol use disorder. A pronounced hyperthymic temperament is likely to have had a clearly positive influence on the course of the disorder. In particular, no influence of the alcohol use disorder on the musical quality of the work can be proven. A clear episodic course of affective symptoms as in bipolar disorder is not demonstrable. The deafness caused a severe reduction in quality of life.

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Ludwig van Beethoven—a psychiatric perspective

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“…Some 70 years earlier, young Sigmund had convinced his mother to remove a piano from the flat, thus putting an end to his 8-yearold sister Anna's musical education, on the grounds that her practising disturbed his studies (Jones 1953, p. 20). If we ignore the speculations of some researchers (for example, Diaz de Chumaceiro 1992, all the evidence available to Freud's biographers suggests that his contacts with music were limited to a superficial knowledge and appreciation of a handful of operas -notably Don Giovanni but also Le nozze di Figaro, Die Meistersinger and Carmen -and even then more because of their visual and narrative components than because of their music (Gay 1988, pp. 168-169): Da Ponte intrigued him more than Mozart.…”

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On Sounds, Children, Identity and A‘quite Unmusical’man

Sabbadini¹

1997

Brit J Psychotherapy

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In this article I explore, in the context of general psychoanalytic considerations about creativity, the specific place of music in human development. With reference to early auditory experiences, I emphasize the central place that sounds occupy in the formation of a child's separate identity. My thoughts on this subject also give me the opportunity for looking at some aspects of the complex relationship between music and psychoanalysis ‐ two exquisitely auditory experiences ‐ and for providing a historical review of Freud's own ambivalent attitude to music.

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Was Freud really tone deaf? A brief commentary

Chumaceiro

1990

Am J Psychoanal

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On Freud's admiration for Beethoven and his "splendid creations"

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Ludwig van Beethoven—a psychiatric perspective

Ludwig van Beethoven—a psychiatric perspective

On Sounds, Children, Identity and A‘quite Unmusical’man

Was Freud really tone deaf? A brief commentary

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