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Anyone seriously interested in Freud ought to welcome this invaluable and user-friendly research tool, which consists of a book with lucid, detailed instructions for using the CD catalogue and Fichtner's excellent introduction.1 The compilers have personally examined the 3,724 items of the catalogue except for almost 500 that appeared in earlier listings but are now missing. Clues to Freud's reading are provided by indications of whether the pages are partially or completely uncut (more than 300 books) and by page references to marginal markings, underlinings, and annotations. Appendices include complete transcriptions of the markings in ten important books, including four that were essential sources for writings by Freud: Jensen's Gradiva, Lipps's Komik und Humor, Schreber's Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken, and Smith's Lectures on the Religion of the Semites. The CD also contains 944 hyperlinked color images of, among other things, covers, title pages, dedications, and markings. Several hyperlinked indices help the user navigate the CD: names; subjects (both German and English); publishers (or printers); titles; Freud's titles; dedications; dedications by date; signatures; signatures by date; markings; ex libris; ownerships; languages; and images.
Not knowing how much of his library he would be able to take with him, Freud, in the weeks before emigrating in June 1938, with the assistance of his daughter Anna, went through his books one by one; he took roughly two-thirds of his library to London. Now that this comprehensive catalogue is available, a close examination of the items which Freud chose to take with him and which to dispense with could provide some insight into those he considered valuable, at least towards the end of his life. Although most of the items given away come from the neurological and psychiatric literature, several do not—for example, books by Radestock, Scholz, and Tissie that Freud cited repeatedly in the first chapter of the Traumdeutun