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Recently a member of the Medical School of the University of Vienna, Dr. Josef Gicklhorn, published a wissenschaftliche Notiz, regarding a hitherto unpublished Gutachten of Wagner-Jauregg, which the latter wrote in 1919 to the Committee of the Medical Faculty, responsible for making recommendations to the Minister of Education (Unterrichtsministerium) for new appointments to the faculty1. While the Gutachten occupies less than one page in the article, Gicklhorn feels it necessary to explain the background of the Gutachten, the relationship between Wagner-Jauregg and Freud in the course of the years starting in 1885, when both men simultaneously graduated and received the Dozentur in neuropathology, and the history of Freud's life-long frustration at having been excluded from an academic career.
In his article Gicklhorn maintains two dieses: (1) Freud was his own worst enemy because of an “unpleasant personality,” which made him many enemies, and (2) the alleged pre-World War I anti-Semitism of the medical faculty in Vienna was a “myth.” Gicklhorn spends a great deal of effort presenting his evidence that Freud had many enemies for reasons other than having been a Jew, and that the Medical Faculty had no anti-Semitic bias. Wagner-Jauregg's letter, as quoted below, is die author's major evidence in support of Gicklhorn's two theses.