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Sandor Rado (1890-1972) had a photographic memory into which was folded everything that Sigmund Freud had written; anyone misquoting or misreading Freud within Rado's hearing could expect to be promptly corrected. It was this prodigious memory, according to Rado, that first caused him to become mistakenly identified as the most orthodox of analysts and then made his “heresy” all the more egregious when his disagreements with Freud's theory and with the organization of the psychoanalytic movement became evident. Thus, Rado—editor of the Internationale Zeitschrift from 1922 to 1931, a leader in the Berlin Institute during the same period, invited to the United States to organize psychoanalytic training according to the Berlin model, dismissed (for dissidence) as Director of Education by the New York Institute in 1941, only to establish, four years later, the first university-based psychoanalytic training institute and clinic (at Columbia)—“was most effectively written out of psychoanalytic history,” notes Bluma Swerdloff in her preface (p. vii) to this book, one of the latest entries into the public domain of essential materials concerning the formative years of psychoanalysis.
The main text consists of the transcript of Sandor Rado's audiotaped memoirs, collected under the auspices of the Columbia University Oral History Office in the early to mid-1960s by