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Abstract

Letters of Sigmund Freud, written between 1873 and 1939, are mainly of a personal nature. Over 100 of the 315 are addressed to Martha Bernays, most of them written during the four years of their engagement.

Other letters, however, contain some of Freud's celebrated statements on Judaism, art and genius. We have here the letter of May 26, 1926 to the Members of the B'Nai B'Brith Lodge, in which he wrote: “What tied me to Jewry … (was) the familiarity of the same psychological structure … As a Jew I was prepared to be in the opposition.” And, in his letter to Karl Abraham (March 5, 1908—not included in this volume), he notes that Abraham was closer to his “intellectual constitution because of racial kinship “than Jung was, adding however that Jung's association “with us is more valuable for that,” in that through it, psychoanalysis “escaped the danger of becoming a Jewish national affair.”