On "A Childhood Recollection from Dichtung und Wahrheit"/Cathy Charbit
...ood memory indicates just as dreams of traumatic experiences. After having been analyzed, the patient confessed his traumatic relationship with his mother and with his younger brother whom he attempted to murder as an infant. The patient's childhood memory of throwing things out of the window brought Freud to a conclusion that the act of violence was a way of transference, in which the children who felt endangered by the presence of a new born in a family were transferring their anger on other objects that could physically be eliminated by the act of violence. Freud also found evidence to this theory in Goethe's testimony about his own brother who was born around the probable dates of Goethe's childish prank and for whom Goethe himself had little affection (328). It appears thus that in "A childhood Recollection", Freud attempts to establish a pattern of certain childhood memories that escape child amnesia and that might indicate a chil...