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“... a passport officer, it’s as if I’ve entered that same world of anxiety and disassociation. As Stefan Zweig put it, I cease to feel as if I quite belong to myself. I split off from my bureaucratic double, and then the passport officer waves me through and I lurch at the insult – you really believe that’s me? They know it’s me. The digital copy ...”

“... At the same time, she was very dismissive of the assimilationists. She wrote a vicious piece on Stefan Zweig, with his aesthete ways and his Visitors’ Book filled with the names of the Great; she also wrote viciously of Eichmann’s prosecutor, as ‘a Galician Jew ... shows off ... ghetto mentality’. Where did she stand? I sympathise with Bikhu ...”

“... members, so much as a world-historical romance. ‘I have made many sacrifices,’ he wrote to Stefan Zweig, and it is a telling phrase, ‘for my collection of Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities, and actually have read more archaeology than psychology.’ He couldn’t, we know, have had comparable Jewish antiquities because there could be no such ...”

“... were not alleviated at the end of the war, when a defeated Austria was left, in the words of Stefan Zweig, ‘a mutilated rump, bleeding from all arteries’. By then Freud, far from his earlier, exhilarated support for the Central Powers, welcomed the dismantling of the Habsburg Empire: ‘I weep not a single tear for this Austria or this ...”