#maxpollak

Here's 1,285th photo art that I create to honor the Austrian tap dancer & the grandmaster of #RumbaTap, @max1poll #MaxPollak. @livinthetaplife @tapvideos @tapfamreunion (at Harlem) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYA0rK_M5PS/?utm_medium=tumblr

Eva Weissweiler, in her book about Dora Kellner, mentions how Max Pollak was seen by Freud. He suffered from insomnia, due to a ticking clock, and so, rather than remove the clock, his mother sought treatment for him, thinking it would toughen him up. (Max also have also nervous conditions). I tracked from the source and there it was: a conversation between Max Pollak and Kurt Eissler, the founder of the Freud Archive what is now at the Library of Congress (the one about which Janet Malcohm writes that book). The transcript can be found here. At first I was skeptical, that it might have been another Max Pollak, but he refers to his mother as a Loew-Beer, which she was. It contains other details too: that he was premature as a baby, that he played the piano, that he had a talent for Maths and Greek, that he spent time in a sanatorium, that he had spots. It is quite a remarkable document that I want to think more about.