MAKING A POINT
igmund Freud smoked twenty cigars a day. Mystery being the artifice of psychoanalysis, he would sit behind the patient, wreathed in fragrant clouds like a pagan god listening to mortal ramblings. Freud’s friend, the Austrian psychoanalyst Raymond De Saussure was so enchanted by the scent of the great mindbender’s cigars that he insisted “contact was established only by means of his voice and the odour of the cigars he ceaselessly smoked.” A popular game played by shrinks at sessions today is analysing shapes on cards. What would Freud have thought about the various forms and variations of cigars?
