ABSTRACT
Sigmund Freud wanted his movement to be carried by the momentum of its discoveries, and he expected his faithful followers to disseminate them. To that end, he developed a strong international organization, with Karl Abraham, Sandor Ferenczi, Ernest Jones, Otto Rank, Hanns Sachs, and later on Max Eitingon as his executive committee. The personalities of the leading disciples were bound to dominate both organizational and theoretical directions of the movement. In any event, the German psychoanalysts did manage to exclude from their journals and from organizational life those therapists who had been dedicated Nazis. The struggle between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein was based on theoretical and personal rivalries antedating the so-called Controversial Discussions of 1943 and 1944. The International Psychoanalytic Association's interregnum during the Second World War had moved the American Psychoanalytic Association (APA) to the center, and the APA postwar statutes had enlarged the American group's sphere.
