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The Vienna Psychoanalytic Society was the first organization for teaching psychoanalysis and expanding its following. The minutes published here record the meeting of the society on February 24, 1909. Dating from the earliest period of the movement, they have unique importance. At this meeting, Freud presented his first paper on the phenomenon of fetishism.
In 1902, Sigmund Freud and four physicians—Alfred Adler, Max Kahane, Rudolf Reitler, and Wilhelm Stekel—began meeting once a week at Freud's home to discuss psychoanalysis. As the circle slowly increased its number and expanded its agenda, it drew on both non-medical and medical professions. Members presented papers on the theory of psychoanalysis, on its application to cultural sciences, and, as their therapeutic experience grew, on case findings. In 1908, the group took the name "Psychoanalytic Society." Before the First World War, its official membership reached just over forty, but throughout the period from its founding to the war, fewer than half this number became active members. The society experienced its