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PAH 23(1):1-6 (2021) • DOI: 10.3366/pah.2021.0363

Editorial

Abstract

Cover of Der Spiegel magazine, Nr. 52, 24 December 1984, reproduced with kind permission from Spiegel-Verlag. Illustration by the artist Michael Mathias Prechtl. — Cover of *Der Spiegel* magazine, Nr. 52, 24 December 1984, reproduced with kind permission from Spiegel-Verlag. Illustration by the artist Michael Mathias Prechtl.

In the image reproduced on the cover - itself a cover from Der Spiegel, 24 December 1984 - the lid is finally lifted, literally, on Freud's innermost secrets. The master himself, or his simulacrum, levels his furrowed brow fixedly into the middle distance, as if frozen in his own iconicity. Cupid, or Eros, whom Freud had named as one of the two fundamental drives in his final allocation of