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One of the most remarkable facts in the history of the psychoanalytic movement is the indifference with which Freud's publications on the subject of telepathy have been received, an indifference all the more significant in the light of the exegetical tendencies not uncommonly present among Freud's followers. In the more than twenty years that have elapsed since Freud's first publication on the subject in 1922, scarcely more than a half dozen psychoanalytic authors have made clinical contributions to the field, and most of these have published single communications followed by strange and enduring silences.
In contrast to the paucity of psychoanalytic contributions in the field of telepathy and allied phenomena there exists an extensive and provocative literature on the subject which has been developing in other quarters, much of it of the highest scientific caliber. For the past nine years The Journal of Parapsychology, a quarterly publication devoted principally to statistical and experimental work, has been appearing from Duke University, and in 1938 the American Psychological Association devoted a symposium to the consideration of extrasensory perception. For some years, furthermore, a growing number of highly trained investigators have been concerning themselves with extrasensory perception and other parapsychological phenomena as a fruitful field of enquiry legitimately held to be within the scope of general psychology.
Although Freud was not the first psychoanalytic observer to draw attention to telepathy as a phenomenon with possibilities