Freud

the psychology of psychoanalysis

pp. 263-331

in: Katherine Arens, Structures of knowing, Berlin, Springer, 1989

Abstract

Both the meaning and the significance of Freud's epochal work remain at the focus of heated disputes within the psychoanalytic and the intellectual communities in general. This is perhaps due to the control of Freud's legacy by his students and colleagues. Only in a situation such as this would the control and curatorship of personal archives cause both a major court case and the report of that situation in a popular magazine such as the New Yorker.¹ In the late 1960's, this phenomenon was noted by Paul Roazen, himself one of the surviving members of Freud's circle in Vienna.