FREUD'S HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY

Abstract

The work of Freud has been eulogized in many places, but one aspect is frequently neglected, the amount of persecution he had to suffer from the academic, political and military authorities of his country and, last but not least, from his pupils, students and colleagues. We sociometrists are most concerned as to what happens to a man in the real world of his social atom, in his interactions with friends and enemies. Freud received the most cruel treatment from those whom he loved and helped most. In many cases he treated them most cruelly in return, but this did not make his own suffering less intense. His best colleagues, friends and pupils turned out to become his greatest opponents and critics, Breuer, Fliess, Adler, Jung, Rank, and many others.