The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904

The new edition of the Freud-Fliess correspondence replaces an earlier edition of the correspondence published in 1954 asThe Origins of Psycho-Analysis: Letters to Wilhelm Fliess, Drafts and Notes, 1887-1902, edited by Marie Bonaparte, Anna Freud, and Ernst Kris. For those readers who turn to the correspondence for the first time, it may be of value to know that as Sigmund Freud became progressively more isolated in his professional work in Vienna toward the end of the 19th century, he turned to a friend, Wilhelm Fliess, an otolaryngologist, about two years younger, who lived in Berlin. For a number of years, Freud maintained a close personal relationship with Fliess, sharing with him his new findings in psychoanalysis and looking to him for emotional support. Freud and Fliess would meet on occasion to discuss their work, and Freud obtained a great deal of confidence and support from this relationship. Fliess, a