FREUD, Sigmund.

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Almanach der Psychoanalyse 1937. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Seinem lieben Fritz Eckstein, 1937, Freud". Friedrich Eckstein (1861-1939), "an old friend of Freud's" (Jones, p. 28), was a leading figure in Vienna's theosophist movement and made a number of contributions to psychoanalytic journals, including to the 1930 and 1936 Almanachs.Freud references Eckstein in Civilization and its Discontents: "Another friend of mine, whose insatiable craving for knowledge has led him to make the most unusual experiments and has ended by giving him encyclopaedic knowledge, has assured me that through the practices of Yoga... one can in fact evolve new sensations and coenaesthesias in oneself" (attribution in Baier, p. 403). Eckstein mentions Freud several times in his 1936 autobiography. His sister, Emma (1865-1924), was one of Freud's most important early patients. The Almanach der Psychoanalyse was published annually from 1926 until the Nazi occupation of Vienna in 1938. Originally conceived as an affordable survey of the year's psychoanalytic literature, each Almanach contained around twenty short articles.This volume contains the first appearance of Freud's essay "Brief an Romain Rolland (Eine Erinnerungsstörung auf der Akropolis)", a return to the mode of self-analysis found in The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), in which he examines a "disturbance of memory" prompted by a visit to Athens. It also includes Thomas Mann's essa

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