of what would emerge from the unconscious and in the process obtained from her...the identical scenes with the father". Jeffrey Masson in his assault on Freud's abandonment of the seduction theory makes much of Eckstein's role, linking Freud's "abandonment" of her position with respect to the Fliess surgery to his "abandonment" of her evidence for the paternal etiology of neurosis: for "the idea – which even Masson concedes is crazy – that...all neurotic patients had been sexually abused". Yet while few (since Schur) would dissent that in regard to the failed surgery "Freud's evasiveness is blatant....Freud was eager to protect Fliess from the obvious charge of careless, almost fatal malpractice", there is at the same time much to suggest that "as far as the seduction theory is concerned, Eckstein is a red herring...no more relevant than Freud's other patients. The fact that Masson lavishes so much attention on her...[is because] Emma Eckstein is for him a woman whom Freud and Fliess abused. She is thus the prototypical psychoanalytic victim...this symbolic function". Cultural influences In 1904, "Eckstein had published a small book on the sexual education of children", although in it "she does not mention Freud". A few years later, however, in his open letter on "The Sexual Enlightenment of Children", Freud refers to her book approvingly, highlighting "the charming letter of explanation which a certain Frau Emma Eckstein quotes as having been written by her to her son when he was about ten years old". Eckstein appears as a character in Joseph Skibell's 2010 novel A Curable Romantic. The song "Emma Eckstein's Nose Job" was released as a single in 2010 by Danish musician Anders Thode. Bibliography Eckstein, E., Die Sexualfrage in der Erziehung des Kindes (Leipzig 1904) References Further reading Chapter 3: "Freud, Fliess, and Emma Eckstein," pp. 55–106. And "Appendix A. Freud and Emma Eckstein" pp. 233–250. In Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff (1984) The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, External links K. R. Eissler, "Preliminary Remarks on Emma Eckstein's Case History" Text of letter from Freud to Fliess on the aftermath of Emma Eckstein's surgery Transcript of Jeffrey Masson, editor of The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887–1904'', telling Robyn Williams the story of Emma Eckstein's surgery on ABC Radio National (second broadcast 3 June 2006) 1865 births 1924 deaths Case studies by Sigmund Freud Analysands