ABSTRACT
The years immediately after Helene Deutsch analysis with S. Freud were professionally full and exciting. The Victor Tausk episode, instead of alienating Helene from Freud, bound her more tightly to him. Helene’s lecture had been so successfully received that after she gave it she went to a park and sat by herself, crying. Precisely because pseudology was beyond the bounds of both neurosis and psychosis, Helene could make a contribution by writing about it in terms of depth psychology. The young girl’s pseudology that Helene extensively described in “On the Pathological Lie” was in reality harmless yet had its purposefulness. Helene’s 1921 concept of pseudology touched on the ego psychology of creativity, and for this reason she appropriately referred to Freud’s essay “Creative Writers and Day-dreams”. Helene’s letters from the summer of 1922 indicated her intention to leave Vienna for a period of study in Berlin.
