The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 1988/2. [antikvár]

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION The Editors of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly are very pleased to be able to present an important historical document to our colleagues-the hitherto unpublished set of minutes of a meeting of The Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, February 24, 1909. A fortuitous chain of circumstances led to this notable event, and I should like to describe it for the interest of our readers. In the course of his research while preparing a recently published biography of Ottó Rank, Acts of Will: The Life and Work of Ottó Rank, Dr. E. James Lieberman discovered these unpublished minutes in the Rank Collection at Columbia University. Knowing that Dr. Louis Rose, Lecturer in the History Department at Princeton University, had written a thesis called The Psychoanalytic Movement in Vienna: Toward a Science of Culture, dealing with the lives and thought of the members of The Vienna Society, Dr. Lieberman informed him of his find and suggested that Dr. Rose prepare the minutes for publication. Permission to publish in the United States was obtained from Dr. Ernst Federn, who plans to publish the originál in Germán, and from Kenneth Lohf, the curator of the Columbia Manuscript Division. Dr. Emmett Wilson, Jr., one of the Editors of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, suggested to Dr. Rose that his material would be of great interest to a psychoanalytic audience, and the result of Dr. Rose's efforts is featured in this issue of The Quarterly. The article Dr. Rose has prepared is entitled "Freud and Fetishism," since the subject of the meeting in question was the presentation of somé of Freud's ideas on that subject. At least as interesting as the scientific contribution is the glimpse these minutes offer of the thinking and personalities of several prominent members of the early psychoanalytic movement. The Ed-