During her childhood in Eastern Europe, the psychoanalyst, Helen Deutsch, one of Freud’s disciples, was at home alone one day, reading in her bathrobe, when the local wood dealer barged in without knocking. “I jumped up and demanded angrily, ‘Mr. Stein, couldn’t you knock first?’ “ Deutsch wrote, “The answer was: ‘Why? Isn’t this a Jewish house?’ “
– Charles Silberman in A Certain People
When did life change so that friends need to stand on ceremony? Do I like it this way?
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