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BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR / PSYCHIATRY / GERMAN STUDIES / JUDAICA
“We are indebted to Alan Dundes for rescuing from oblivion this useful aid
to understanding Sigmund Freud.”
—Morton I. Teicher,
Jewish Journal
This eyewitness account by one of Sigmund Freud’s earliest students has been
rediscovered for twenty-first-century readers. Isidor Sadger’s recollections provide
a unique window into the early days of the psychoanalytic movement and also illu-
minate Freud’s own struggles: his delight in wit, his attitudes toward Judaism, and
his strong opinions concerning lay, nonmedical psychoanalysts.
As a student, Sadger attended Freud’s lectures from 1895 through 1904.
Although Sadger was not part of Freud’s inner circle, he was a participant observer
of Freud’s early years as teacher, therapist, and clinician. In 1930, Sadger pub-
lished the biography
Sigmund Freud: Persönliche Erinnerungen
, but with the rise of
Nazism and World War II, the book was almost lost to the world of psychoanalytic
history.
Recollecting Freud
is a long-lost personal account that provides invaluable
insights into Freud and his social, cultural, and intellectual context.
Isidor Isaak Sadger
(1867–1942), a Viennese neurologist, was one of Freud’s
earliest and most devoted students.
Alan Dundes
(1934–2005) was professor of
anthropology and folklore at the University of California. His many books include
Parsing through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist
and
The Vampire: A Case-
book
.
Johanna M. Jacobsen
received her PhD in folklore from the University of
Pennsylvania and is a freelance writer in Seattle.
GERMAN STUDIES / LITERATURE & CRITICISM / DRAMA
The Brecht Yearbook
is a venue for discussion about aspects of theater and litera-
ture that were of particular interest to Bertolt Brecht, especially the politics of
literature and the politics of theater in a global context.
This volume features a dossier on writer-actor-director Manfred Karge (pictured
left), unpublished documents from the Brecht Archive in Berlin, new research
articles on Brecht, and reviews of recent books. Article topics include Brecht and
Adorno in Los Angeles, Celan and Brecht, and transcultural aspects of epic theater.
Theodore F. Rippey
is associate professor of German at Bowling Green State
University. His resesarch focuses on sound and media in the interwar era, and
he has published on Brecht, Fritz Lang, Kirt Tucholsky, and Siegfried Kracauer.
FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION
AUGUST
LC: 2004025672 BF
196 PP. 5 × 8 ½ 1 B/W PHOTO
E-BOOK $12.95 T ISBN 978-0-299-21103-5
• PRIOR EDITION: GERMAN LANGUAGE,
SIGMUND FREUD: PERSÖNLICHE
ERINNERUNGEN
, E. WENGRAF, 1930, CLOTH
• 2005 CLOTH, UWP, ISBN 978-0-299-21100-4
DECEMBER
326 PP. 6 X 9
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