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The past ten years or so have imparted one value to the Freud biography of Ernest Jones which that excellent work could not have had when it first appeared in the early and mid-fifties: Jones' voluminous study has proved to be a catalyst to an important series of publications having to do with the history of the psychoanalytic movement and with Freud as the guiding personage of the movement.
This series, which already includes numerous volumes of letters, drafts, minutes and reminiscences, illuminates the personal style of mind behind Freud's official writings and Freud's active struggles to define and fix a distinctive psychoanalytic program and profession.
No student of psychoanalysis can afford to neglect this relatively recent aspect of psychoanalytic literature which is appearing at a time when the psychoanalyst, as scientist and professional, is slipping into a minority within the mushrooming, eclectic mental-health movement and therefore needs, almost as his pioneer progenitors, careful instruction in what it means to maintain a psychoanalytic position in the midst of so many hostile currents and fatuous claims. And no better example of this position is to be found than in Freud's own command of intellectual decision and strategy.
Another in the series of publications triggered off by Jones' biography has appeared. The Freud Journal of Lou Andreas-Salomé is an account of this gifted and famous woman's experience in the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society during 1912-1913. Having achieved an extraordinary career as muse and mistress to a small legion of fin de siècle