Schnitzler, the Viennese physician-poet and contemporary of Freud, wrote strikingly 'freudian' plays and stories. Schnitzler referred to Freud as his 'double', and Freud called Schnitzler his 'psychic twin'. Yet they did not meet until June 1922 when Freud was 63 and Schnitzler was 60. In one of Freud's letters to Schnitzler dated a month earlier, he remarked that the avoidance was out of fear of meeting his own double who had duplicated in a remarkable and intuitive way his own discoveries. The author verifies this with excerpts from the early writings of Schnitzler, which antedate Freud's psychoanalytic publications.