ABSTRACT
Freud's "Analysis Terminable and Interminable" has been regarded as a sort of scientific "last will and testament." In the final years of his life, when he wrote this work revising and evaluating psychoanalysis, what must his prevalent feelings have been? Although his intelligence remained lucid and his creative capacity intact until practically his last moment, from time to time he gave signs that he knew his end was near. In addition, with the coming of Nazism, the keen enemy both of Jews and of psychoanalysis—which was considered a "Jewish science"—and consequent persecution in Germany and Austria, countries where psychoanalysis had prospered, Freud may have thought that the science he had created and developed might also be coming to an end. Would he have had the feeling that the world was ending? (See Jones 1957.)
