Freud's "Cain Complex"
By Eric Miller


The caption to this photo states: “The Freud Family in 1876, with the 20-year-old Freud standing in the center, facing the camera, and his half-brother Emmanuel turning his back on him.” (Peter Gray’s Freud, 1988).

   It is a remarkable family photo where the eldest brother turns his back on his younger brother. But, actually, as our research demonstrates, Emmanuel Freud was not Freud’s half-brother, he was his father. This fact was made clear by Freud himself when he stated that he first visited England in 1875 when Sigmund was 19. Freud tried to disguise this fact by claiming in the first edition of The Interpretation of Dreams that he was 17 when he first went to England. The true record of when Freud went to England for the first was purposely misreported —because it was at 19 that Freud killed Emmanuel’s other son, John who was also 19 or just turned 20. Freud himself gives four versions of when he first went to England, i.e., 17, 18, 19, and 20—a matter we shall deal with in great detail later. Nonetheless, it is a fact that the Freud family genealogical records indicate that John (nee Johann) Freud “mysteriously disappeared at the age of 18”. This is impossible because Freud wrote a letter about John at the time when he was in England, again when he was 19 and John was either 19 or 20. My work in Passion for Murder made public the fact that the Freud family records, apparently wrongly, show that John mysteriously disappeared “at the age of 18”. 		   This information was disclosed to me by Dr. Helen Schur, wife of Dr. Max Schur who found the information in her husband’s boxes left on his death wherein he kept the records for his own highly researched book on Freud, Freud Living and Dying (1970). The “truth” of John’s disappearance had been a carefully guarded secret in the “inner circle” of Freud devotes and only became known through the research that produced Passion for Murder: The Homicidal Deeds of Dr. Sigmund Freud,
“One thing you must not forget is that as far as the conduct of your life is concerned you really belong not to the second but to the third generation in relation to your father.”

Freud’s “half-brother” Emmanuel to his son Sigmund Freud
published in 1984. [New details will be made available on this matter]. The fact is Dr. Schur and family had emigrated to England with Freud when he fled from Nazi Germany. Dr. Max Schur was, in fact, Freud’s personal physician and lived with the Freud family in London tending to Freud in his last days of dying from cancer of the jaw. Schur admits, that he was, in fact, the one who killed Freud by an act of euthanasia in Freud’s final days—actually a criminal act under English law then, as now. Though Schur highlighted the fact that Freud was suffering from a “brother-murder” complex (i.e., a “Cain-Complex) as well as a “father-murder-mother sex complex”—the Oedipal Complex, he could not bring himself in his insightful discussions of Freud’s murder mania to tell the truth that John Freud—the very one whom Freud said he most wanted to murder—mysterious disappeared, even though he knew it to be the recorded fact in family genealogy data of the Freud family that he had in his possession. 		But, he did mention the fact of John’s disappearance in an obscure scholarly journal, which went completely unnoticed prior to my discovering the highly explosive and almost completely hidden fact. Despite Freud family genealogy records clearly asserting that John mysteriously disappeared “at 18” years of age, and despite the fact that there is no evidence in the historical records of the continued existence of John Freud after Sigmund’s (who changed his name from Sigisimund to Sigmund in the same year, 1875) visit to Manchester, Freud, repeatedly lied about the continued existence of John in England, almost 30 years after John “mysteriously disappeared”—whether at 18, 19, or 20 years of age . Given the fact that Freud habitually claimed that he has a passion for murder stemming from his early relations with John, we see, and can prove, that Freud loved to toy with confessing the fact of his murders (of John and others), convinced, as he stated, “I am fifteen to twenty years ahead of everyone and nobody can catch me up.” Freud wrote:
". . . my enmities with contemporaries went back to my relations in childhood with a nephew [John} who was a year my senior; he was my superior. . . My emotional life has always insisted that I should have an intimate friend and hated enemy . . . since that time my nephew John has had many re-incarnations which revived now one side and now another of his personality unalterably fixed as it was in my unconscious memory . . .”
As it is with many a Serial Killer, each new victim is a “new edition” of a hated enemy whom they love, with a passion, to kill over and over and over again.

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