On October 23, 1896, Freud's father Jakob died and some time later, in 1897, Freud started his self-analysis. Then, close to the anniversary of his father's death, on September 21, 1897, Freud wrote to Fliess: “I no longer believe in my neurotica”-his theory of seduction by the father which he had considered up to that moment as the etiology of hysteria. And a Jewish anecdote comes to his mind: “Take off your wedding-gown, Rebecca, you are no longer a bride!” On October 3rd, he stresses to Fliess that in his own case, his father played no active role and on October 15, he mentions Oedipus for the first time. From then on, Freud rapidly