61
Otto Pflanze, «Toward a Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Bismarck», The American Historical Review, LXXVII (1972), 428. He points out that psychoanalysis today offers «models based on clinical experience and [...] broad generalizations about character types and typical psychic problems, which can be used to illuminate specific personalities»; Ibid., 420.
62
Galdós, as quoted in: Olmet, Galdós, 139.
63
Ibid., 24. Galdó used no adjective to describe his father, stating simply that the latter had attained a high military rank (which also stretches a point). In his Memoirs, he refers to no member of his family.
64
Donald F. Brown, «More Light on the Mother of Galdós», Hispania, XXXIX (1956), 403-07.
65
Francisco Ruiz Ramón, Tres personajes galdosianos. Ensayo de aproximación a un mundo religioso y moral (Madrid, 1964).
66
Pérez Vidal, Galdós en Canarias, 58.
67
Eleven letters from Galdós report Madrina's headaches, which Professor Schmidt conjectures were «probably more mental or emotional than physical»: Cartas entre dos amigos, 14.
68
Berkowitz, Pérez Galdós, 16, 294-95.
69
Galdós, «Alma y Vida» [1902], in: Obras, VI, 930.
70
Marañón, Elogio de Toledo, 141-45, 149. Berkowitz describes Galdós' relationship to his sisters as «timid and unassertive»: Pérez Galdós, 294.