Crazy About You: A Comedy About Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis

“Crazy About You: A Comedy About Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis” is a new romantic comedy by award-winning playwright William Cane. Based on a true story about what happened when Sigmund Freud allowed his friend Dr. Wilhelm Fliess to perform surgery on Emma Eckstein’s nose under the misguided assumption that it would cure her of hysteria. Although Fliess loves Emma, he almost kills her with the operation. This is the first time that the Unconscious appears onstage in a theatrical production. Throughout the play, the Unconscious tries to force Freud to stop writing and lecturing about it—because it wants to work unseen and undiscovered by the mass of humanity! The Unconscious also tries to drive Freud mad by making Dr. Sandor Ferenczi fall madly in love with Freud’s sixteen-year-old daughter Anna.

William Cane is the pen name of bestselling author Michael Christian. A former trial attorney, he has directed more than a hundred stage shows, including his Off-Off Broadway musical Meet The Real Ernest Shackleton (2004), which the New York Times compared to the Marx Brothers. In 2024 he directed The Beat Generation at the Producers Club in Manhattan. His books have been translated into twenty languages and have sold more than a million copies worldwide.