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volume 1: 1906–1908. Edited by Herman Nunberg and Ernst Federn. Translated by M. Nunberg.
Minutes of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, volume 2: 1908–1910. Edited by Herman Nunberg and Ernst Federn. Translated by M. Nunberg. New York: Int. Univ. Press. 1962, 1967. Pp. 410 and 582.
After the rupture of his relation with Wilhelm Fliess, Freud never again initiated such a subjectively intimate relation with another person during the rest of his life. Two possible reasons for this change in his style of object-relating could be: (1) that Freud had now worked through the inner crises of his self-analysis and successfully transmuted the gain in insight to augment his theories and analytic method, and (2) his work had now achieved its basic character and identity and gradually had started to attract the attention of a few zealous intellectuals from all disciplines, who felt a compelling need to inquire into their private unrest within and looked to Freud for an answer, if not a cure. It was in some such climate that the informal meetings, christened at first 'Psychological Wednesday Evenings', started at Freud's home in 1902. The Minutes start from 1906, when Otto Rank became the salaried Secretary of the group. It is to his talent and devotion that we owe this extraordinary document, which gives us a unique view of the origins of the psychoanalytic