ABSTRACT
The authors discovered a series of small notebooks from the years 1901-1915 in the Freud Collection of the Library of Congress (two of them being not yet accessible). The article provides a first impression of their form, content and characteristics. Some events in Freud's life and his preoccupation with certain matters can now be dated more precisely; some ideas can be related to the treatment of certain patients; the origins of certain metapsychological theories can be pursued. A number of personal contacts are mentioned in these booklets, Freud's travels are often precisely documented. Some aphoristic formulations shed a new light on Freud's self-image.
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Documentation/history , Freudian Theory , Psychoanalysis/history , Writing/history , Austria , History, 19th Century , History, 20th CenturyABSTRACT
From his obituary of Samuel Hammerschlag, we know of Freud's great veneration for his teacher of Jewish religion. However, not only Hammerschlag himself but his whole family had a formative influence on young Freud, who was deeply impressed by their humanity. This paper describes Freud's relationships with all the family members. In particular, it shows how warmly he felt towards the only daughter, Anna Hammerschlag, who was his patient for a while and whom he chose as a godmother for his youngest daughter Anna. By virtue of the crucial role she played in Freud's 'specimen dream' of July 1895 ('Irma's injection'), she also became as it were the godmother of Freud's magnum opus, The Interpretation of Dreams. All the known extant letters from Freud to members of the Hammerschlag family are published here for the first time in English translation.
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Freudian Theory/history , Interpersonal Relations , Dreams , History, 20th CenturyABSTRACT
Today the Freud Archives, held by the Library of Congress (Washington), are the largest collection of documents pertaining to the life and work of Sigmund Freud. Their foundation and development were essentially due to the initiative and the passionate labor of K. R. Eissler who operated in close coordination with Anna Freud. Based on the correspondence between Eissler and A. Freud, the paper highlights the first five years of this achievement und discusses the policy of the Archives which has been the subject of some controversy in recent decades. Eissler's Progress Report covering the years 1951-1969 is reproduced in an appendix.
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Archives/history , Freudian Theory/history , District of Columbia , History, 20th Century , Humans , Psychoanalysis/historyABSTRACT
Freud's early paper Psychical (or mental) treatment, first published in a family reference book for educated lay persons, was reproduced in the Gesammelte Werke with a stated publication date of 1905. This date was subsequently called into question owing to certain parts of the subject-matter (the use of hypnosis and suggestion in 'mental treatment'), and the contribution was erroneously assigned, for instance by James Strachey, to the year 1890. This error is corrected in the present paper. Furthermore, the existence of a second edition of this reference book, which contains an addition to Freud's text and appeared in 1918-19, has previously gone unnoticed. The first edition had been published in 1905-6. Freud's contribution must, however, have been written at an appreciably earlier date. The probable time of its genesis is discussed. Freud's new text is reproduced (in English translation) for the first time in an appendix to this paper.
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Freudian Theory , Manuscripts, Medical as Topic/history , Mental Healing/history , Psychoanalysis/history , Austria , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , HumansABSTRACT
From his obituary on Samuel Hammerschlag we know of Freud's great veneration for his teacher of Jewish religion. However, not only Hammerschlag himself but his whole family had a formative influence on young Freud who was deeply impressed by their humanity. This paper describes Freud's relationship to all family members. In particular it shows how warmly he felt towards the only daughter, Anna Hammerschlag, who was his patient for a while and whom he chose as a godmother of his youngest daughter Anna. By virtue of the crucial role she played in Freud's "specimen dream" of July 1895 ("Irma's injection"), she also became as it were the godmother of Freud's magnum opus, The Interpretation of Dreams.--All known surviving letters of Freud to members of the Hammerschlag family are published here for the first time.
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Correspondence as Topic/history , Psychoanalysis/history , Psychoanalytic Theory , Austria , Dreams , Female , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Humans , Interpersonal Relations , MaleABSTRACT
Freud's early article, "Psychical (or mental) treatment," first appeared in a health textbook for educated lay people. It was included in his Gesammelte Werke with the publication date of 1905. Subsequently, this date was questioned because the text dealt mainly with hypnosis and suggestion, so James Strachey, among others, erroneously changed it to 1890. This error is corrected in the present paper. Until now, no one noticed that a second edition of the textbook, which appeared in 1918-19, contained an amended version of Freud's original article in which he added a summary of psychoanalytic theory and practice. The first edition was published in 1905-06. However, Freud's contribution must have been written at a much earlier date. Its presumed date of composition is discussed. Freud's addition to the original text is reprinted in an appendix for the first time.
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Psychoanalysis/history , Psychoanalytic Therapy , Textbooks as Topic/history , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Psychoanalytic Theory , Publishing/historyABSTRACT
The authors present an article on Freud contained in a Russian "Jewish Encyclopedia" (St. Petersburg 1906-13) and discuss to what extent it goes back to Freud who had provided a sketch for it.
