Sigmund, Falling Up!

by David Raffin

Sigmund, Falling Up! is the definitive story of the life and work of Sigmund Freud, as told by Zeppo Marx. A post-modern Jules Verne novel transmuted to an unseen Marx Brothers film. Sigmund is off with Madame Sophie Blanchard in her fabulous hot air balloon stuffed with fireworks, and Sigmund, who is reluctant only to speak of his own mother. In the mean-time, Carl Gustav Jung has taken to a Zeppelin in a bid to outmaneuver Sigmund while Alfred Adler, father of the inferiority complex, has stationed himself as a broadcaster in order to take to the air himself. The trip exposes them to trains, bears, magic, and the tradition of military camp, in order to meet an automatonic doctor named Eliza.

205 pages, Paperback

Published August 20, 2020

About the author

Contributor to Funny Times, Rosebud magazine, etc.

Edited the journal Vision? Nary!, of which MAXIMUMROCK'N'ROLL said:
"A sarcastic, funny magazine that takes it to you with humor about the general fucked-up-ness of America- down home heartland America"

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"A cross between Garrison Keillor and Salvador Dali."
– The Northwest Examiner

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– Peter Bacho, Author "Cebu" "Dark Blue Suit"


"His perversions are oddly analytical." 
- Jodi Lamm, Author "Titan Magic" 

"David's style is absurdist bordering on the surreal. [...] Certainly, David is a virtuoso at not delivering what an audience might expect. As such, he shows his remarkable skills as a satirist."
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"He's not your average comedian."
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