Josefine Mutzenbacher Or The Story Of A Viennese Wench As Told By Herself

Josefine -- the ultimate WEAPON of LOVE. With her sheer presence, she makes all men and women EXPLODE! The formative years of Vienna's most eminent courtesan, Josefine "Pepi" Mutzenbacher (1852-1904), told in her own words. The hidden vices of the clergy and the nobility -- ruthlessly exposed! For the first time, this 1906 classic of erotica is presented in a complete and accurate translation. At last the original German text is rendered as it is. Nothing is censored! Nothing is left out! Nothing is added! Read here the REAL STORY of Josefine before it gets banned again! Forget all the previous abridged, expurgated, distorted, botchered, defrauded, and pirated publications! This new immaculate edition has been prepared by an expert in Austrian literature. "Josefine Mutzenbacher" was published anonymously in Vienna 112 years ago. The book is now generally attributed to Felix Salten (1869-1945), the father of Bambi and many other beloved animal heroes and heroines. "Josefine Mutzenbacher" explores the most animal urges lurking in all men. This novel is the literary complement to Sigmund Freud's "Theory of Sexuality," published in 1905.

Josefine -- the ultimate WEAPON of LOVE. With her sheer presence, she makes all men and women EXPLODE! The formative years of Vienna's most eminent courtesan, Josefine "Pepi" Mutzenbacher (1852-1904), told in her own words. The hidden vices of the clergy and the nobility -- ruthlessly exposed! For the first time, this 1906 classic of erotica is presented in a complete and accurate translation. At last the original German text is rendered as it is. Nothing is censored! Nothing is left out! Nothing is added! Read here the REAL STORY of Josefine before it gets banned again! Forget all the previous abridged, expurgated, distorted, botchered, defrauded, and pirated publications! This new immaculate edition has been prepared by an expert in Austrian literature. "Josefine Mutzenbacher" was published anonymously in Vienna 112 years ago. The book is now generally attributed to Felix Salten (1869-1945), the father of Bambi and many other beloved animal heroes and heroines. "Josefine Mutzenbacher" explores the most animal urges lurking in all men. This novel is the literary complement to Sigmund Freud's "Theory of Sexuality," published in 1905.

Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna shows how photography and film in turn-of-the-century Vienna (the birthplace of psychoanalysis) not only reflected modernist ideas already in force, but helped to bring into being what might be referred to as a “psychoanalytic imagination.” Mary Bergstein demonstrates that visual images not only illustrated, but also engendered ways of seeing social, psychological, and scientific ideas during a formative time in the creation and development of psychoanalysis and the modern age. Indeed, she argues that visual culture initiated significant aspects of psychoanalytic thought. Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna examines a variety of visual materials and texts, ranging from scientific illustrations to popular "low culture" and even forms of erotica, including film. Attention is also given to women's dresses and shoes in a social context and as they are represented in photography and circulated as fetish objects. Bergstein maintains a commitment to women's history and feminist inquiry throughout, particularly in her final chapter, which is devoted to the representations of women in the erotic photography and film. Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna is well illustrated with images drawn from the sources discussed and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of modernism and psychoanalysis.

Fritz Wittels (1880-1950) was a pioneering Viennese psychoanalyst, the first biographer of Freud (1924), and intermittently friend and rival of Freud himself, of Wilhelm Stekel, and of their famous satirical adversary, Karl Kraus. Towards the end of his life, while living and practising as an analyst in the United States, Wittels wrote a two-hundred-page memoir of his early life and career in Vienna. The typescript memoirs, held in the archives of the Abraham Brill Library, New York, are published here for the first time, accompanied by a range of little-known illustrations. Incomplete in places, they have been deftly edited, contextualised and introduced by Edward Timms, whose many valuable explanatory notes include the identification of the 'child woman' of the title. In his memoirs Wittels writes frankly and vividly about the erotic sub-culture of fin-de-siecle Vienna and about early controversies within the Psychoanalytic Society. His picture of the interaction between the two is startlingly original, and will appeal not only to historians of psychoanalysis, but to anyone interested in the Viennese cultural avant-garde. The erotic triangles in which Wittels, Kraus and Freud were involved are shown to have impinged directly on the activities of the famous Society. Freud himself plays a crucial role in the story, and the book as a whole is of exceptional importance for the origins of psychoanalysis.

When Lucas is magically transformed into the canine companion of a Viennese archduke, he learns that the privileged life he dreamed of is not all it is cracked up to be.