Freud's orchestration of the Vienna Society discussions that resulted in Adler's resignation did not mark the end of his harsh reevaluation of Adler's "deviations." In many ways, the emotional denouement that transpired behind the Society's closed doors represented a beginning more than an end. Freud's published indictment of Adler's ego psychology emerged as a clear sequel to the Society discussions of February, 1911 , and it was an indictment that mimicked his earlier disavowal of Adler's "biology" in its selective disregard of the epistemological and clinical bases of Adler's notion of the "nervous character." Before proceeding to Freud's polemical critique of Adler, however, it is important to underscore the considerable disparity between what Adler was saying and what Freud was to end up criticizing in his published writings. To this end, it is helpful to consider, by way of prologue to Freud's repudiation of Adler, two related topics: (1) the programmatic statement of his psychological theory that Adler wrote in the immediate aftermath of his departure from the Vienna Society in 1911 and (2) the substantive critique of Adler's theory found in the diary entries of Lou Andreas-Salome, the only psychoanalyst to think seriously about Adler's work in the immediate aftermath of his departure from the Freudians.