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Editorial Note
We are including two papers by Gustav Bychowski. “Marcel Proust and his Mother” was composed shortly before his death. “Marcel Proust as Poet of Psychoanalysis” was written some forty years earlier, in 1930.
Our Spring 1972 issue (Vol. 29, No. 1) contains a statement of Bychowski's relation and contribution to American Imago and to The Association For Applied Psychoanalysis.
Dying was out of character with Gustav Bychowski. He lived with the zest of a gourmet savoring a sumptuous meal and enjoying it to the last remnant. He loved people, the arts, letters, nature and enjoyed sights with the innocence of a novice, yet with the know-how and discrimination of the connoisseur. He traveled widely and was at home in many countries and cultures. His mind was open to things both old and new, to the heritage handed down to him by his elders and to the intellectual ferment stirring in the new generation. Nor was his love of life unrequited. Born in 1895 with a silver spoon in his mouth, the son of a prominent Warsaw neurologist, he had the advantage of an affluent and cultured home, and of the opportunities opened up to him by the growing emancipation of at least a select group of Jews in his native Poland. For Gustav Bychowski, it was the same auspicious beginning as for a preceding generation of Jewish intellectuals which brought Sigmund Freud and a whole galaxy of Jewish scientists and medical men to prominence in the old Austro-Hungarian monarchy.