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Saul Rosenzweig, the author of Freud, Jung and Hall the King-Maker, is a distinguished American psychologist as well as a former professor at Clark University. It is thus particularly appropriate that he has undertaken an exploration of Freud's trip to Clark in 1909. His immense study has taken him some fifty years of research, i.e. half the age of our century-old profession! I find myself, therefore, in the position—fortunately unusual—of reviewing research on a topic which I myself had investigated for some years and had intended to write up in monograph form.
But first some introductory remarks before I arrive at Rosenzweig's book proper. To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, its president, G. Stanley Hall, invited Freud and a number of other distinguished speakers (Wilhelm Wundt declined the invitation for he was involved in celebrating the five-hundredth anniversary of the University of Leipzig!). Freud's acceptance occasioned his sole visit to the States. Lasting but three weeks, that visit and the circumstances leading up to and flowing from it were pivotal—both for Freud as an individual and for psychoanalytic history on both sides of the Atlantic.
I will restrict myself to a few examples confirming the decisive impact of Freud's American experience. In the most significantly personal terms, Freud retrospected about his transatlantic sojourn where he gave his first general introduction to psychoanalysis and where he received his 'first official recognition' (Jones, 1955, p. 57) for his scientific efforts, an honorary doctorate:
At that time I was only fifty-three. I felt young and healthy, and my short visit to the new world encouraged my self-respect in every way. In Europe I felt as though I were despised; but over there I found myself accepted by the foremost men as an equal. As I stepped on to the platform at Worcester to deliver my Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis [1910a] it seemed like the realiz