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Freud's Earliest Theories and the Helmholtz School. Siegfried Bernfeld. Pp. 435-455.
Honoring the one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary of Freud's birth, the May issue of Psyche contains preprints from two important works about to be published by Suhrkamp and S. Fischer: Siegfried Bernfeld's collected biographical studies of Freud and a supplemental volume of about seventy psychological papers by Freud which are not included in the Gesammelte Werke. Grubrich-Simitis, who was able to inspect Bernfeld's legacy, gives a sketch of his life and discusses the development of his studies of the history of psychoanalysis and his collaboration with Ernest Jones. In his paper, "Freud's Earliest Theories and the Helmholtz School," Bernfeld describes the lines of tradition within which Freud developed his psychology of the unconscious. Brücke, Freud's teacher, belonged to the generation of materialist physiologists who rejected Schelling's philosophy of nature and yet remained its heirs. Also included in the May issue are a short prefatory note by Grubrich-Simitis, a brief introduction to Freud's writings on hypnotism and suggestion by A. Harris, and three articles by Freud as part of Psyche's "Archives of Psychoanalysis" series: the Preface to his translation of Bernheim (1888), his handbook article, "Hypnosis" (1891), and the Preface to his translation of Charcot (1892-1894).