ABSTRACT
The correspondence with Eduard Silberstein is a central element in understanding the sharp edges of Freud’s adolescence; this correspondence, which spans almost ten years, is situated during his adolescence and not in his aftermath. If it has already been commented on, it remains a source text discovered quite recently that we analyse in a systematic way.
From the reading of these letters, we can infer that the difficulty in freeing himself from tutelary infantile figures did represent for Freud one of the most painful tasks of his life. The tumultuous relationship with his best friend can be understood as a narrative in the hollow of the essential conflicts of Freud’s psychic life, between the search for an alter ego or a narcissistic double. Inseparable, they create the Castilian Academy inspired by the text of Cervantes, “The Colloquy of the Dogs”, taking the names of the dogs, Cipion and Berganza. Inspired by this twin friendship, he imagines a house for two where the archives of the academy can be filed, and evokes a consanguineous link between them. At the baccalaureate, he translates an excerpt from “Oedipus Rex” and obtains the mention “Satisfactory”.
