ABSTRACT
Bottome says that Adler was impressed "when the famous book on 'Dream Analysis' was published" and "exclaimed w i t h great earnestness" to a Viennese professor: "This man has something to say to us!" She claims further that the Neue Freie Presse published an article r id icul ing the book, and that Adler then published "a strongly wri t ten defense" i n the same newspaper (p. 56). Jones reported that " i t has proved impossible, even after a thorough search" to find either the review or a reply by Adler in theNeue Fremie Presse ( I I , p. 8). Anyway, in the fall of 1902 Freud invi ted Adler, Wi lhe lm Stekel, whom he had analyzed, Max Kahane, and Rudolf Reitler, whom Jones calls "the first person to practice psychoanalysis after Freud," to "meet for discussion of his work at his
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residence/' The suggestion may have come from Stekel. These five men then began to meet for discussion every Wednesday evening in Freud's wai t ing room, and they spoke of their "Psychological Wednesday Society." Jones, on whom I have relied here, also tells us that at the beginning of 1908 the society had twenty-two members, but that usually no more than eight or ten attended each meeting. The minutes of the meetings, generally recorded by Otto Rank, have been published in four volumes, first in English, and more recently also in the original German; they cover the period from October 10,1906, to November 19, 1918, and are of interest because they summarize not only the remarks of the main speaker of the evening but also those o f every participant in the discussions, including, of course, Adler as w e l l as Freud.
