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In reply to by Robert Danes

http://mq.oxfordjournals.org/c...
Alexander Carpenter:
Schoenberg's Vienna, Freud's Vienna:
Re-Examining the Connections between the Monodrama Erwartung and the Early History of Psychoanalysis
Musical Quarterly (2010) 93 (1): 144-181.

Arnold Schoenberg's 1909 monodrama Erwartung, op. 17, is commonly characterized as a “psychoanalytic” work,
for several reasons: first, because of a putative family connection between the monodrama's librettist,
Dr. Marie Pappenheim, and Bertha Pappenheim...
(...)
The suggestion that Marie and Bertha Pappenheim were related, and the notion that Erwartung comprises
a generalized reflection of a Freudian Zeitgeist—and/or that it has some kind of psychoanalytic program—
have become musicological truisms, though much of the research on the subject lacks depth and the
evidence is often scant.
(...)
Both Schoenberg and Marie Pappenheim knew much more about psychoanalysis than previously thought,
and both were more closely connected to Freud and more sympathetic to his burgeoning science of mind.
(...)

Levi's carefully researched study, entitled Genealogy of the Pappenheim Family of Pressburg and Vienna,
makes it clear that Marie and Bertha were related.40

http://access.cjh.org/home.php...
http://www.loebtree.com/papw.h...

Appendix 2 comprises a chart that excerpts the relevant genealogical relationships, leaving out irrelevant
children/siblings in each case. Levi's genealogy and the research done by Falck in conjunction with the insights
of other scholars and commentators and the majority opinion, it can be asserted definitively that Marie
was Bertha's second cousin, once removed, or one generation apart:

Marie's grandfather, Hermann would have been Bertha's uncle;
Marie's great-grandfather, Wolf I, would have been Bertha's grandfather;
Marie's father, Max, was Bertha's first cousin.

As Falck has noted, this relationship is a distant one, but the confirmation of the genealogical relationship
between Marie and Bertha gives added weight to the idea of an explicitly psychoanalytic background
to Erwartung.

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