Alexey Sklyarenko: On Antiterra (the planet on which Ada is set), Sigmund Freud
is represented by the Dr Froit of Signy-Mondieu-Mondieu in the Ardennes and his
émigré brother (who may be the same man) with a passport-changed name, a Dr
Froid (1.3). JM: in
Freud's report, we encounter an anedocte related to a Baroness
who was in labor... “Ah, mon Dieu, que je
souffre!” ...“Mein Gott, mein Gott, was für
Schmerzen!,” ...“Ai, waih, waih" ( Cf. Freud, S., “Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum
Unbewussten”, in Gesammelte Werke, Frankfurt am Main, S. Ficher, 1969, v.
VI, p. 86);
JM: The reference to the recondidte Freud anedocte still
looks preposterous to me. However there's a line (during Van's
encounter with Rack) in which the poor dribling musician addresses Van
Veen as "Baron von Wien." (when we get
to a link bt, "Ada's" Irish Barons and the execrated Viennese
doctor) : " ‘Have they all gone to Hollywood already? Please, tell me, Baron
von Wien’. "