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first became acquainted with Freud when he attended the latter's lectures in the winter of 1895-1896. On this account, he proudly claimed to be Freud's oldest pupil. In 1906, he became a member of the legendary Psychological Wednesday Society (the Wednesday Circle), precursor of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. Although Sadger's presentations before the Vienna Society were often criticized by Freud for their lack of subtlety and nuance, he made a modest name for himself on the basis of his pioneering work toward a psychoanalytic understanding of homosexuality and for his contributions to the conceptualization of narcissism, which were publicly acknowledged by Freud. Moreover, he authored a series of pathographies, and may have played some historical role as a teacher of young radicals among the postwar analytic generation in Vienna. It was at the sexological seminar in 1919—organized by Otto Fenichel, with the help of Wilhelm Reich and others—that Sadger gave lectures about sexual perversions, which he later elaborated into his main work,2 a handbook of sexual perversions, which was meant to be a psychoanalytic counterpart to Krafft-Ebing's notorious Psychopathia sexualis.
It has been known for years that in the late 1920s, Sadger wrote about his recollections of Freud, and that they had even been printed in 1930.3 Strangely, however, it proved impossible to locate