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The Turning Point in the Life of Napoleon I. Ludwig Jekels.
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The Turning Point in the Life of Napoleon I.—Jekels believes his study justified by the number of publications concerning the Napoleonic period, something like 80,000, which proves to him that there are here problems and motives which lie so deeply hidden that only psychoanalysis is able to disclose them. Other methods of research have failed to disclose them and the field is left to psychoanalysis.
Jekels reviews briefly the history of the island of Corsica, the birthplace of Napoleon, as it won its freedom from the oppression of the Genoese chiefly through the leadership of Pasquale Paoli, whom the Corsicans had summoned to be their regent. The defeated Genoese were driven to a certain number of fortified places on the coast and when they were also hard pressed by Paoli they turned to France for help. But when they realized that it was impossible to win back the land which Paoli had succeeded in reorganizing and establishing they betrayed the entire island to France for a promised sum of money. The Corsicans resisted but after a struggle of a year Paoli was decisively defeated by the French troops and the chief city Corte was won by France. Paoli fled to England, where he was hospitably received, while his followers surrendered to France. One of the leaders of the deputation to ask peace of France was Carlo Charles Marie Bonaparte, Napoleon's father who had been a brave contender for the island's freedom and a follower of Paoli. His young wife, Maria Letizia, had
shared the conflict with him, a beautiful and energetic woman, burning with patriotic devotion to her country. Four months after the conclusion of peace her son Napoleon was born.
The dream of freedom existing for centuries still slumbered in the