ABSTRACT
Editorial meetings more often than not turned into scholarly discussions; research assignments and publication plans coincided in most cases. The journal was more than just an outlet for a group of scholars; it played a constitutive role in establishing a school of thought. An equally momentous integration of Freudian developmental psychology with social theory was accomplished again only by Talcott Parsons at a much later date. It was not long before the members of the Frankfurt Institute made good use of the tool developed by Erich Fromm. The case is different with periodicals: they themselves prevent such a continuous reception. Journals limit their own timeliness by the rhythm of their appearance. Every new issue devalues the preceding one, and with its last number a journal wanders into the archives. Periodicals are more intimately bound up with the date of their publication than monographs are with the year of their first printing.
