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Prejudice is the hangman of Truth. (Wilhelm Stekel, Autobiography)
No event is more enthralling to scholars (or clinicians) of psychoanalysis than the recovery of a lost object. John Forrester is therefore to be congratulated for having inaugurated his editorship of Psychoanalysis and History with an issue that features not one but two seminal texts hitherto unavailable in English - Ferenczi's 1913 review of Jung's Transformations and Symbols of the Libido and Wilhelm Stekel's 1926 monograph ‘On the History of the Analytic Movement’, completed the previous June in response to Freud's Autobiographical Study, though borrowing its title from Freud's polemic of 1914 prompted by the defections of his two leading Viennese disciples, Adler and Stekel, as well as of Jung, his heir apparent in Zurich. Thanks are due not only to Forrester for compiling this issue but also to the colleagues responsible for editing and translating the texts - Karl Figlio and Alix Jordanova in the case of Ferenczi's review, and Jaap Bos for Stekel's ‘History.’1