Barande examines some aspects of Freud's personal conflicts as they appear in his 1917 discussion of Goethe in "A Childhood Recollection from Dichtung und Wahrheit and in his papers, "Fetishism" and "The 'Uncanny'." She questions whether Freud was correct to argue that the closeness in age between Goethe and his younger sister (she was fifteen months younger) excluded the sister from being an object of jealousy. In a letter to Fliess (October 3, 1897) Freud wrote of his own intense jealousy for his brother, who was younger by only a year. Hence the letter of 1897 and the article of 1917 are contradictory. Even the clinical observations which prompted Freud to examine Goethe's memory were of patients who had jealous feelings for younger siblings close to their own age. Barande suggests that Freud unconsciously equated his own family with Goethe's. Freud may have been dealing with his feelings about his younger brother, Julius, who failed to survive beyond the age of eight months. The dismissal of Goethe's sister as a rival suggests