ABSTRACT
Freud scholarship has evaluated Freud's studies on cocaine in very different ways. In this chapter, the author proposes to reconstruct carefully the historical context of the cocaine papers, in order that the people might arrive at a more objective re-evaluation of their significance. Freud's study is a comprehensive summary of the literature, and describes various possibilities for therapeutic uses of the drug. The author presents a summary of his published work on cocaine. At the same time as Sigmund Freud began to recognise the seriousness of Ernst Fleischl von Marxow's condition, the first article stressing the dangers of cocaine was published. In his last cocaine study of admitted that the value of cocaine for morphine addicts had been annihilated by the fact that they simply tended to become dependent upon cocaine in addition to morphine. Even in the 1920s, cocaine was still the subject of avant-garde literature.
