ABSTRACT
By now the relevant scholarship on Freud should be far advanced. It is today widely known how much original documentation about Freud is still sealed up at the Library of Congress at the request of the Freud Archives in New York. Still, the state of interpretive writing on the history of psychoanalysis ought not to be as primitive as it is at present. Practicing analysts use Freud for their own purposes, and in most professional journals passages from Freud are cited anachronistically; little effort goes into trying to understand Freud in his own time, but rather isolated words of his are bandied about in the context of today’s therapeutic concerns.
