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The writer has found, he thinks, an appropriately Freudian slip in the third volume of Dr. Jones's great biography of Freud, along with several other mistakes, on someone's part, that cluster around this slip.
On page 224 of Volume III Dr. Jones says, apropos the year 1938, when the Nazis had entered Vienna and efforts were being made to get Freud out of Vienna to England:
He and Anna completed the translation of Marie Bouaparte's book, Topsy, which Anna had begun some eighteen months before; it was finished on April 9. Freud entered fully into the spirit of the book—a fondness for chows was one of the many links between him and the author—and liked it greatly. Then Anna Freud translated a book called The Unconscious by Israel Berlin, and Freud himself translated the chapter on Samuel Butler. This was the first work of the kind Freud had done since his translations of Charcot and Bernheim so long ago.
But in The Origins of Psycho-Analysis (Freud-Fleiss letters) it is said in a footnote (p. 17, n. 7), apropos those same translations of Charcot and Bernheim:
These were not Freud's only translations. In his student days he translated a volume of J. S. Mill (see page 343, footnote 2). In later life, in 1922, he translated the chapter on Samuel Butler in the German edition, edited by Anna Freud, of Israel Levine's The Unconscious (Levine 1926); and finally, in his old age, when he was waiting for a permit to leave Vienna after the Nazi occupation of Austria, he translated Marie Bonaparte's little book [Topsy], jointly with Anna Freud.
The discrepancies are obvious: Marie Bonaparte, Anna Freud, and Ernst Kris, who edited the Freud-Fleiss correspondence, say that Anna Freud “edited” the German edition of Israel “Levine's” The Unconscious in “1922” and that Freud himself translated the chapter on Samuel Butler;