I don't know whether you've spotted Fritz critisizing Candide to de Catt - he says "what a terrible idea that we're happy when we're being abused"
This is what the diaries say? Huuuuuh. That's surprising to me --
It's basically saying in a literary discussion what he can't bring himself to say about his own father and himself, not anymore.
--oh! I guess this explains it, because if Lehndorff the oft-clueless can figure out what the book is about and not seize on that aspect (which like you say isn't quite accurate, either, although I can kind of see how one could misread to that conclusion) then it's shocking to me that Fritz is doing this, but it makes a lot more sense if he's, well, actually talking about something else entirely.
Incidentally: Voltaire seems never to have been tempted to internalize his father's abuse
Also, I suppose that fact that his actual day job involved writing all kinds of things that mocked everything, especially anyone in power, helped a lot. Like Wilhelmine's therapy-by-opera :)
Re: The Lehndorff Report: 1776
This is what the diaries say? Huuuuuh. That's surprising to me --
It's basically saying in a literary discussion what he can't bring himself to say about his own father and himself, not anymore.
--oh! I guess this explains it, because if Lehndorff the oft-clueless can figure out what the book is about and not seize on that aspect (which like you say isn't quite accurate, either, although I can kind of see how one could misread to that conclusion) then it's shocking to me that Fritz is doing this, but it makes a lot more sense if he's, well, actually talking about something else entirely.
Incidentally: Voltaire seems never to have been tempted to internalize his father's abuse
Also, I suppose that fact that his actual day job involved writing all kinds of things that mocked everything, especially anyone in power, helped a lot. Like Wilhelmine's therapy-by-opera :)