ABSTRACT
Dr. Max Eitingon was one of Sigmund Freud’s most devoted and valued colleagues. In 1919, Freud himself proposed Eitingon as a member of that strange “secret council composed of the best and most trustworthy among men”. The mystery of Eitingon has now become the mystery of the publication of the article about him in The New York Times Book Review. According to Stephen Schwartz, “Eitingon was instrumental in preparing the 1937 secret trial in which the highest leaders of the Soviet Army, including the chief army commissar and eight generals, fell before the Stalinist execution machine”. It is possible to get a fairly clear impression of Eitingon’s residence in Jerusalem from the letters between Arnold Zweig and Freud. Eitingon is one of the most remarkable cases on record of a double life or personality. Since his death in 1943, Eitingon has gone down in the history of psychoanalysis as one of its commemorated “pioneers”.
