Recollecting Freud

This eyewitness account by one of Sigmund Freuds earliest students has been rediscovered for twenty-first-century readers. Isidor Sadgers recollections provide a unique window into the early days of the psychoanalytic movement and also illuminate Freuds own struggles:: his delight in wit, his attitudes toward Judaism, and his strong opinions concerning lay, nonmedical psychoanalysts. As a student, Sadger attended Freuds lectures from 1895 through 1904. Although Sadger was not part of Freuds inner circle, he was a participant observer of Freuds early years as teacher, therapist, and clinician. In 1930, Sadger published 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.