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(a) German Edition:
(1921 August. Date of MS.)
1941 Psychoanalyse Und Telepathie G.W., 17, 27-44.
(b) English Translation:
‘Psychoanalysis and Telepathy’ 1953 In Psychoanalysis and the Occult, New York, International Universities Press, 56-68. (Tr. George Devereux.)
The present translation is a new one by James Strachey.
The MS. bears at its beginning the date ‘2 Aug. 21’ and at its end ‘Gastein, 6 Aug. 21’. The original bears no title, and the one here adopted is that selected by the editors of the Gesammelte Werke.
A prefatory note to the German edition states that the paper ‘was written for the meeting of the Central Executive of the International Psycho-Analytical Association held in the Harz mountains at the beginning of September, 1921’. Dr. Ernest Jones, who was at that time President of the Central Executive, tells us, however, that no meeting of that body took place in the Harz mountains at the date in question, though there was a gathering of Freud's closest followers: Abraham, Eitingon, Ferenczi, Rank and Sachs, besides Dr. Jones himself. It was to this unofficial group that the paper seems to have been read.
Freud had intended the paper to give reports of three cases, but when he came to prepare the MS. at Gastein he found that he had left the material for the third case behind in Vienna, and he was obliged to replace it by some material of a rather different character. The original ‘third case’ has, however, survived as a separate MS. This is headed: ‘Postscript. Here is the report, omitted owing to resistance, on a case of thought-transference during analytic practice.’ The case is in fact that relating to Dr. Forsyth and the Forsyte Saga, which is the last of those recorded in Lecture XXX of the New Introductory
Lectures. The two versions of the case agree very closely, with scarcely more than verbal differences; and it has therefore not seemed necessary to include it here. Any substantial points of difference will be found