ABSTRACT
It can safely be said that Sigmund Freud as a young man had never heard of psycho-analysis, nor had he been even indirectly under its influence. Freud's last letters to Martha before their marriage are evidently missing. In those early days Freud collected round him a small social group composed of Martha Bernays's brother and her sister's fiance and some of his own friends. This was called the Bund, and one wonders whether it might be possible to relate this social group with the later Bund, the professional one, which was composed of certain colleagues who helped to form a psycho-analytical society. Freud has suffered during the birth, as men do, and he is already very much loving his baby girl, who is only five hours old. One could claim that on the evidence or these letters Freud was human, and was a man of deep feeling, and he is already generally recognised as great in achievement.
