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FREUD:
DI010NARY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
Edited by
NANDOR FODOR
ASSOCIATE OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT
OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
and
FRANK GAYNOR
CO-AUTHOR OF THE "DICTIONARY OF INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY"
With a Preface by
THEODOR REIK
AUTHOR OF "LISTENING WITH THE THIRD EAR"
PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY
New York
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PREFACE
IT is SCARCELY ELEVEN YEARS since Freud died in London.
When I now read presentations of his work in books and arti-
cles, I am often reminded of a little story I heard as a boy in
Vienna. The father of a peasant had died and the son, an
Austrian Peter Simpleton, wished to possess a picture of the
dear deceased man. The boy wandered to Vienna, found a well-
known painter and described to the artist what the father looked
like, giving full details of the shape of the face, the colors of
hair and eyes a.s.o. The painter promised to deliver the pic-
ture. When the naive boy returned to the studio after a few
weeks, he broke into sobs before the finished portrait and cried:
"Poor father, how much you have changed in such a short
time!" Reading many books and magazine articles of those last
years that pretend to give a correct picture of Freud's ideas
and teachings amazes us, who have known the great man: how
much his thoughts have changed in such a short time!
Fortunately we have the possibility to study his work in the
original. To remain within the simile, he has left us a magnifi-
cent self-portrait in those thirteen volumes of his writings.
The discussion about psychoanalysis among physicians and
laymen (many of the first group belong also to the second) is
rather increasing than diminishing. Everybody who has studied
psychoanalysis thoroughly has, of course, the right to criticize
the opinions of Freud. Nobody has the right to distort and mis-
represent them. There ought to be a law!
This book will help to correct the abundant misunderstand-
ings and misconceptions among the intelligent people interested
in psychoanalysis. Presenting Freud's ideas in quotations from
his own work, the editors have given a kind of dictionary which
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can secure authentic information on the most important topics
of psychoanalysis to the student who is in doubt. Such a
dictionary is, of course, not to be used as a textbook of psycho-
analysis. It can rather be used to correct many textbooks, now
printed.
It has become customary nowadays that the preface of a book
should praise it in glowing terms, announce its publication with
fanfare. (It is a custom more honour'd in the breach than the
observance.) It is, it seems to me, sufficient to recommend its
value to the intelligent reader. The editors of this book know,
I am sure, that it is as imperfect as other scientific endeavors
of this kind. They are willing, no, more than this, they are eager
to augment and correct it, to fill gaps in later editions which
will become necessary because the merits of such a work will
soon be recognized by the students of psychoanalysis.
Greek mythology tells the story of the Augean stable wherein
three thousand oxen were kept and which remained uncleaned
for thirty years. The misconceptions and distortions, the falsifi-