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It was while doing research for a book on the effects of catastrophes--both terrestrial and extraterrestrial--on
the rise of ancient world cultures that Eric came upon the subject of Sigmund Freud and his mythic identification
with Satan/Venus. Stimulated to his research efforts by the works and encouragement of I. Velikovsky, Eric
discovered that Freud kept a huge collection of ancient gods statues and figurines, and that he would habitually
finger a Venus statue favorite of his while practicing his so-called “talking therapy” – which became inextricably
associated with Freud’s “science” of psychoanalysis. Eric soon discovered that Velikovsky has been the first
psychoanalyst to himself psychoanalyze Freud himself but to publish his analysis in Freud’s own publication, Imago.
Velikovsky who visited Freud on his 77th birthday in Vienna in 1932 and, over the years had an active personal
correspondence with Freud—recognized that Freud was deeply disturbed, how deeply he had no idea. Velikovsky, who
had deep ties to Jewish culture (and counted Albert Einstein amongst his best friends, as well as other great Jewish
cultural figures) thought that Freud’s deepest conflicts involved his desire to convert to Christianity— in order
to advance himself socially.
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When Velikovsky first examined Eric’s work he had, no doubt, strong cultural and even ethnic resistances to the idea that
Freud was homicidal—but to his credit he ultimately credited Eric with a correct diagnosis, saying, “Elwood [“Eric”] I credit
you with the correct psycho-analysis of Sigmund Freud.”
On May 20, 1976 that Eric wrote the following communiqué to Velikovsky:
Dear Dr. Velikovsky,
. . . I am taking the opportunity to inform you of a significant development in my work. In the past, I have written to
you in regards to the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud in relationship to his Faust pact [i.e., Freud pact with the Devil]
which you so brilliantly penetrated in 1941 in your monograph in Freud’s Imago. . . Following your footsteps I believe I
have significantly broadened and sharpened the psychoanalysis of Freud.
All roads lead to Rome. Freud was suffering from a homicidal sadomasochistic repressed homosexuality. This brought him
dangerously close to a set of circumstance which may very well have involved him in the deed of homicide. If he did not
consciously and knowingly commit homicide,
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the guilt and psychological pressures from which he suffered was
certainly sufficient to force upon the objective reader the possibility of the event or events. . . “
And the letter went on to assert that once this understanding “becomes available to the public” Freud’s work will
“never be seen again in the same light.” But, Eric did not rush to print, instead he continued to pour over and over
Freud’s works, his writings, his personal letters, his biography, he launched transcontinental investigations
and it was not until 7 years later, in 1983 that Passion for Murder: The Homicidal Deeds of Dr. Sigmund Freud was
published, with over 500 footnotes and massive documentation of his thesis that Freud was a Serial Killer. Eric’s work
validated the remarks, literally, of one of Freud’s most renowned biographers, Ronald W. Clark, that Freud’s personal
biographic cupboard contained “more skeletons than a graveyard.” Interestingly, it wasn’t until just after publication of
Passion for Murder that the F.B.I’s Behavioral Science Laboratory at Quantico developed, as a forensic tool, the
official profile of the Serial Killer—an extremely rare and unique psychopathology, even among murders!
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