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This is a valuable contribution to what has come to be termed “Freud Studies,” the field of theory and research that explores and illuminates aspects of Freud's work and thought but is not an examination or discussion per se of the clinical aspects of psychoanalysis. Ms. Burke's extraordinary publication can be enjoyed both for the pleasure of finding new knowledge created through research and analysis and the pleasure of reading an original and lively study that goes beyond the expected range of most biographies.
A slim oddity of a volume that appeared in 1976 was, I believe, the germinal work that made The Sphinx on the Table possible. This was Edmund Engelman's (1976) Berggasse 19: Sigmund Freud's Home and Offices, Vienna 1938. Engelman was a photographer and friend of August Aichorn, a psychoanalyst doing pioneering psychoanalytic work with delinquent adolescents and a close associate of Freud.
It was May of 1938; the Nazis had already arrested Anna Freud once, taken her in for interrogation, and, thankfully, released her. Princess Marie Bonaparte had convinced the Freuds to leave quickly, and she had just made arrangements for them to move with all of their possessions to London. Aichhorn felt that this historic place where Freud lived and worked must be recorded on film. The result was a series of photos, made without lights or flashbulbs so as not to attract the attention of the SS, that revealed what was previously known only to Freud's associates and patients. Freud's offices were filled with Greek, Roman,