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(a) German Editions:
1936 Brief an Romain Rolland (Eine Erinnerungsstörung Auf Der Akropolis) Almanach 1937, 9-21.
1950 Brief an Romain Rolland (Eine Erinnerungsstörung Auf Der Akropolis) G.W., 16, 250-7.
(b) English Translation:
‘A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis’ 1941 Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 22 (2), 93-101. (Tr. James Strachey.)
‘A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis’ 1950 C.P, 5, 302-12. (Reprint of above.)
The present translation is a corrected version of the one published in 1950.
Romain Rolland was born on January 29, 1866, and this paper was dedicated to him on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Freud had the greatest admiration for him, as is proved not only by the present work, but by the message to Rolland on his sixtieth birthday (Freud, 1926a) and by the six or seven letters to him which have been published (Freud, 1960a), as well as by a passage at the beginning of Civilization and its Discontents (1930a), Standard Ed., 21, 64-5. Freud had first corresponded with him in 1923, and had met him, for the only time, it seems, in 1924.
It has been impossible to trace any earlier publication of this paper in German, other than that in the Almanach noted above. It should be borne in mind that any publications connected with Romain Rolland, as with many other authors, including Thomas Mann and of course all Jewish writers, were suppressed during this period by the Nazis.
My dear Friend,