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What someone thinks he remembers from his childhood is not a matter of indifference; as a rule the residual memories—which he himself does not understand—cloak priceless pieces of evidence about the most important features in his mental development.
—FREUD (1910, P. 84)
THE ILLUSTRATIONS REPRODUCED HERE WERE FIRST PUBLISHED before Sigmund Freud's teen-age years. According to Ernest Jones (1953), he "remembered very little of the early period between the ages of three and seven" and reputedly remarked: "They were hard times and not worth remembering" (p. 15). Two of the four memories which Freud, in later life, did attribute to this four-year period (1859–63) involved pictorial imagery and its vibrant imprint upon his persona even after coming of age. This paper documents how such visual stimuli from Freud's preadolescent period were stockpiled and reanimated in subsequent memories and mental attitudes.
As a result of his own self-analysis, Freud realized that pages of animallike prints often furnish a crucial starting point in reconstructing childhood pathology. Both of the examples reported