Bibliography of Early Psychoanalytic Monographic Series—2—secondary, Publisher-Sponsored Series8

In the preceding bibliography4 we listed the four primary monographic series which began in 1907, 1910, 1914 and 1924, and which were marked by two distinguishing features: (1) they were edited personally by, or under the direction of, Sigmund Freud, and (2) the writings included made their first published appearance in this form.

In this second step toward identification of the psychoanalytic classics we deal with a very different type of series. From 1919 on, these were sponsored by the publisher, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag. With the aid of a postwar fund, dedicated by its Hungarian donors to cultural purposes and, specifically, to psychoanalysis, Freud had just founded this nonprofit publishing enterprise and announced its functions: directed by Otto Rank, it would ensure publication of the two psychoanalytic periodicals of the period, the Internationale Zeitschrift für ärztliche Psychoanalyse and the Imago; expedite the printing of books and pamphlets bearing upon psychoanalysis, both medical and applied; and take better care of the authors' interests than was customary on the part of the commercial book dealer-publishers.5 In more