ABSTRACT
The immigrants wished to preserve the traces of a Europe that Nazism had swept away, and thus bring the Freud of their youth to life once more, while Jones, as chief politician of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), tried to ensure the political and geographical prominence of Britain and the British Psychoanalytic School against the threat posed by the American giant. Thus, after the Second World War both London and Washington became major centres where psychoanalytic archives were deposited, a turn of events that gave rise to much related historiographic activity. Among third-generation psychoanalysts, Kurt Eissler remained the most Viennese of the Americans. He spent his entire life defending Freud’s original doctrine, to the point of adopting, in a provocative way, an attitude of open rebellion against any post-Freudian developments in psychoanalysis. Having moved to New York after the Second World War, Eissler assembled for the Sigmund Freud Archives a great many documents pertaining to the psychoanalytic adventure.
