Freud's B'nai B'rith Dream: Having Lost His Way, His “Brethren … Were Unkind and Scornful … ”

Retired clinical psychologist. For over four decades, he was in private practice in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, where he was chief psychologist of a regional mental health center for five years. He also consulted at the Neuropsychiatric Department at Ireland Army Hospital, Fort Knox, Kentucky. His book The Unknown Freud: Five Plays and Five Essays (2016, International Psychoanalytic Books) was nominated for the Gradiva Award. At a 2004 conference on phylogenetic memory in Vienna, Dr. Lippman gave a paper on Freud's 1898 dream of the Botanical Monograph, a revised version of which was published in this journal in 2009, as well as an essay covering Freud's odd experience on the Acropolis in September 1904, published in 2008. A member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Lippman has had three of his works on the father of psychoanalysis receive staged readings, and one, a monologue, “Freud at the Crossroads in Rome,” was given a reading at the Emerging Artists Theatre in New York City in 2006.