by Isidor Sadger
edited by Alan Dundes
translated by Johanna Micaela Jacobsen
University of Wisconsin Press, 2005
Cloth: 978-0-299-21100-4 | Paper: 978-0-299-21104-2 | eISBN: 978-0-299-21103-5
Library of Congress Classification BF109.F74S2413 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification 150.1952092

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This eyewitness account by one of Sigmund Freud's earliest students has been rediscovered for twenty-first-century readers. Isidor Sadger's recollections provide a unique window into the early days of the psychoanalytic movement and also illuminate Freud's own struggles: his delight in wit, his attitudes toward Judaism, and his strong opinions concerning lay, nonmedical psychoanalysts.
            As a student, Sadger attended Freud's lectures from 1895 through 1904. Although Sadger was not part of Freud's inner circle, he was a participant observer of Freud's early years as teacher, therapist, and clinician. In 1930, Sadger published the biography Sigmund Freud: Persönliche Erinnerungen, but with the rise of Nazism and World War II, the book was almost lost to the world of psychoanalytic history. Recollecting Freud is a long-lost personal account that provides invaluable insights into Freud and his social, cultural, and intellectual context.