PEP | Article - The Letters of Sigmund Freud to Eduard Silberstein: 1871–1881: Edited by Walter Boehlich, translated by A. J. Pomerans. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1990. Pp. i–xxvii + 203.

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Abstract

The publication of about 80 of Freud's letters to his friend, Eduard Silberstein, fills a significant void in Freud biography as it provides us with an opportunity to trace some aspects of his development from the time he was 15 until he was 25 and graduated from medical school.

The book contains an excellent introduction by Walter Boehlich, the editor of the collection, which serves to orient the reader to this period in Freud's life. This introduction and the explanatory footnotes appended to many of the letters are exemplary in their scholarship. The problems which confronted the editor

PEP | Article - The Letters of Sigmund Freud to Eduard Silberstein: 1871–1881: Edited by Walter Boehlich, translated by A. J. Pomerans. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1990. Pp. i–xxvii + 203. - Grinstein, Alexander