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The Freud Centenary Celebration of the American Psychoanalytic Association opened at Chicago in an atmosphere of great anticipation on Friday morning, April 27. Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Jones arrived safely, thus fulfilling the enthusiastic wish to have Dr. Jones, its founder, present as our honored guest.
The Celebration began wth a short plenary session at which Dr. Maxwell Gitelson, the President, made the opening remarks and introduced Dr. Jones:
"This meeting inaugurates our commemoration of the birth of Sigmund Freud a hundred years ago. But we have not gathered simply to recall a name or a man. We are here also because for nearly fifty years, in increasing numbers, we have been meeting annually and semi-annually, to report, to study, to discuss, and to debate the facts and the ideas to which that man introduced us. These facts and ideas have established their inherent validity apart from his name. They continue to evoke our interest and to challenge our imagination, not because a genius discovered them, but because the tool which he forged has enabled each of us, again and again, to rediscover them and, from time to time, to supplement them, to extend them, and to glimpse and envisage even farther reaches of knowledge about the mind of man.
"The role of the discoverer is to open new frontiers. Beyond these extends a great public domain. It is the fate of the discoverer that those who follow him into that domain want to and need to stake it out, each making part of it his own. Each who