ABSTRACT
In the late afternoon of Wednesday, September 21, 1921, the seven members of Freud's Secret Committee met at the Hotel d'Angleterre in Hildesheim, a large medieval town in Lower Saxony, just north of the Harz mountains. The arrangements for the meeting had been left in the capable hands of Karl Abraham, President of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society. But let us look back to the events leading up to this meeting, which all its members were to remember with a rare degree of nostalgia.
