ABSTRACT
An important encounter took place between Freud and Jung, one which was enriching and stimulating for them both, is undeniable. They collaborated intensively over six years, during a decisive period in the history of psychoanalysis. That they shared a friendship of deep psychological complexity is also without doubt, as attested by the collection of 359 letters that they exchanged between 1906 and 1913. Freud's An Autobiographical Study, is a lucid and structured document, published in German in 1925. Freud was commissioned by a German publisher whose aim was to publish a series of monographs on contemporary medicine via autobiographical sketches written by 27 important medical authorities of the time. David Lotto, an American psychoanalyst, in a recent study (2001), focuses on Freud's repetition of triangular relations in the service of his homoerotic feelings. The British psychoanalyst, Ron Britton, has made a helpful distinction between libidinal narcissism and destructive narcissism.
