Chronology: Part I
This chronological list was based upon the 17,000 sources of historical data that I have gathered for over twenty years and upon the articles published in this Dictionary. It can neither presume completion, since my choices were necessarily arbitrary, nor absolute precision, which does not exist in any work of history, no matter the scrutiny and rigor of its author. As with the Dictionary, it will indefinitely remain subject to additions and revisions. It should therefore only be considered as a point of departure for the more thorough research of our vigilant readers, to benefit future publications. —Alain de Mijolla
| DATE | EVENT |
| 1815-1855 | December 18, 1815 - Jakob (Kallamon Jacob) Freud, Sigmund Freud's father, son of Schlomo Freud and Peppi [Pesel] (née Hoffmann), is born in Tysmenitz, Galicia (Poland) |
| 1833 - Presumed date of birth of Emanuel Freud, Sigmund's half-brother, in Tysmenitz, Galicia (Poland) | |
| 1834 or 1835 - Presumed date of birth of Philipp Freud, Sigmund's half-brother, in Tysmenitz, Galicia (Poland) | |
| August 18, 1835 - Amalie (Amalia, Malka) Nathanson, Sigmund Freud's mother, daughter of Jacob Nathanson and Sara (née Wilenz), born in Brody | |
| January 15, 1842 - Josef Breuer born in Vienna (Austria) | |
| October 3, 1846 - James J. Putnam born in Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | |
| July 29, 1855 - Jakob Freud and Amalie Nathanson marry in Vienna | |
| August 18, 1855 - Johann (John) Freud, son of Emanuel Freud and Maria Freud-Rokach, Sigmund's nephew and playmate, born in Freiberg (Moravia) | |
| 1856-1860 | May 6, 1856 - Sigismund Schlomo born in Freiberg (Moravia) at 6:30 pm, delivered, as all of Emmanuel and Maria's children, by the midwife Cäcilia Smolka; circumcised on May 13 |
| October 1857 - Julius, Sigmund Freud's first brother, born in Freiberg (died on April 15, 1858 at the age of six months) | |
| October 24, 1858 - Wilhelm Fliess born in Arnswalde (Choszczno) | |
| December 31, 1858 - Anna, Sigmund's first sister, born in Freiberg |
| August 1859-March 1860 - Jakob Freud leaves for Vienna; Amalia, Sigmund, and Anna follow, stopping in Leipzig en route. Emanuel Freud's family emigrates to Manchester (England) with Philipp Freud | |
| March 21, 1861 - Regine Debora (Rosa) Freud, Sigmund Freud's second sister, fourth child of Jakob and Amalie, born in Vienna | |
| August 23 - Francisco Franco da Rocha born in Amparo, State of São Paulo (Brazil) | |
| 1861-1865 | February 12, 1861 - Louise Andreas-Salomé, called "Lou," born in St. Petersburg (Russia) |
| March 22, 1861 - Maria (Mitzi) Freud, Sigmund Freud's third sister, fifth child of Jakob and Amalie, born in Vienna | |
| July 26, 1861 - Martha Bernays, Sigmund Freud's future wife, daughter of Berman Bernays and Emmeline (née Philipps), born in Hamburg | |
| July 23, 1862 - Esther Adolfine (Dolfi) Freud, Sigmund Freud's fourth sister, sixth child of Jakob and Amalie, born in Vienna | |
| May 3, 1864 - Pauline Regine (Paula) Freud, Sigmund Freud's fifth sister, seventh child of Jakob and Amalie, born in Vienna | |
| June 18, 1865 - Minna Bernays, the younger sister of Martha, Sigmund Freud's wife, born in Hamburg | |
| June 20, 1865 - Josef Freud (Sigmund Freud's uncle) arrested for trafficking counterfeit rubles in Vienna | |
| October 1865 - Sigmund Freud admitted to the Leopoldstätter Real- and Obergymnasium | |
| 1866-1870 | April 15 or 19, 1866 - Alexander Gotthold Efraim Freud, Sigmund Freud's brother, eighth and last child of Jakob and Amalie, born in Vienna |
| October 13, 1966 - Georg Groddeck born in Bad Kösen an der Saale (Germany) | |
| March 18, 1868 - Wilhelm Stekel born in Boyan (Bukovnia) | |
| February 7, 1870 - Alfred Adler, second of six brothers, born in the Viennese suburb of Rudolfsheim (Austria) | |
| 1871-1875 | August 31, 1871 - Hermine Hug-Hellmuth-Hug von Hugenstein born in Vienna (Austria) |
| October 13, 1871 - Paul Federn born in Vienna (Austria) | |
| August-September 15, 1872 - Along with two school friends (Eduard Silberstein, Horaz Ignaz Rosanes) Freud visits the Fluss family in Freiburg. Freud claims to be in love with Gisela Fluss | |
| February 23, 1873 - Oskar Pfister born in Zurich (Switzerland) | |
| March 24, 1873 - Edouard Claparède born in Geneva (Switzerland) | |
| July 7, 1873 - Sándor Ferenczi born in Miskolc (Hungary), the eighth of eleven children of Baruch Fraenkel (who will adopt the name Bernát Ferenczi), bookseller, printer, concert agent, and Róza Eibenschütz's agent | |
| July 1873 - Freud is accepted to his Matura (excellently "vorzüglich") |
| October 1873 - Freud attends the Wiener Universität, at the medizinischen Fakultät | |
| October 12, 1874 - Abraham A. Brill born in Kanczugv (Austria) | |
| July 26, 1875 - Carl Gustav Jung born in Kesswill (Switzerland) | |
| August 1875 - Freud travels to England to the Manchester home of his half-brothers Emanuel and Philipp Freud | |
| August 28, 1875 - Marco Levi Bianchini born in Rovigo (Italy) | |
| 1876 | March - Freud studies in Trieste at Karl Claus's Institute of Comparative Anatomy |
| May 24 - Poul Bjerre born in Göteborg (Sweden) | |
| October - Freud attends the Ernst Brücke Physiologische Institut as "Famulus" | |
| 1877 | January 4 - Freud's first publication: "Über den Ursprung der hinteren Nervenwurzeln im Rückenmarke von Ammocoetes (Petromyzon Planeri)" (1877a) |
| May 3 - Karl Abraham born in Bremen (Germany) | |
| October 12 - Nikolaï Ossipov born in Moscow (Russia) | |
| 1878 | January 22 - Ernst Lanzer (the Rat Man) born in Vienna (dies in Russia in 1918) |
| May 10 - Mosche Wulff (or Moshe Woolf) born in Odessa (Russia) | |
| July 27 - August Aichhorn born in Vienna (Austria) | |
| 1879 | January 1st - Ernest Jones born in Gowerton, Glamorgan, Wales (Great Britain) |
| March 12 - Viktor Tausk born in Zsilina (Slovakia) | |
| 1880 | November 6 - Sylvia May Payne born in Wimbledon, Surrey (Great Britain) |
| December -Treatment of Bertha Pappenheim begins (Anna O.) under Josef Breuer | |
| 1881 | January 10 - Hanns Sachs born in Vienna (Austria) |
| March 31 - Freud becomes a medical doctor | |
| April 5 - Ludwig Binswanger born in Kreuzlingen, canton of Thurgovia (Switzerland) | |
| April 8 - Carl Müller-Braunschweig born in Braunschweig (Germany) | |
| June 25 - Felix Boehm born in Riga (Lithuania) | |
| June 26 - Max Eitingon born in Mohilev (Russia) | |
| November 28 - Stefan Zweig born in Vienna (Austria) | |
| 1882 | March 30 - Melanie Klein-Reizes born in Vienna (Austria) |
| April - Freud first meets Martha Bernays | |
| April 4 - Ernst Simmel born in Wroclaw (Poland) | |
| July 2 - Marie Bonaparte, princess of Greece and Denmark, born in Saint-Cloud (France) | |
| October - Freud, having given up a career in research, goes to work in different capacities at the General Hospital of Vienna |
| November 1 - Ida Bauer (Dora) born (dies in New York in 1945) | |
| November 12 - Johan H.W. van Ophuijsen born in Sumatra (Dutch East Indies) | |
| Jean-Martin Charcot is named Professor of the Clinic of Mental Illnesses | |
| 1883 | June 28 - Joan Riviere-Hogson Verrail born in Brighton (Great Britain) |
| July 13 - Josef Breuer tells Freud about the case of Anna O. | |
| December 24 - Emil Oberholzer born in Zweibrücken (Switzerland) | |
| 1884 | January 23 - Hermann Nunberg born in Bendzin, Galicia (Poland) |
| April 22 - Otto Rank (Rosenfeld) born in Vienna (Austria) | |
| June 14 - Eugenia Sokolnicka-Kutner born in Varsovia (Poland) | |
| October 9 - Helene Deutsch-Rosenbach born in Przemysl (Poland) | |
| 1885 | March 24 - Susan Isaacs-Sutherland born in Bolton, Lancashire (Great Britain) |
| April 1885 - Freud's research and publications on cocaine | |
| April 28 - Freud tells Martha that he destroyed his old notes, letters, and manuscripts | |
| June 19 - A traveling stipend is awarded to Freud for a six-month stay in Paris and Berlin | |
| July 18 - Freud is named Privatdozent in Neuropathology, a decision that will not become official until September 5 | |
| September 15 - Karen Horney-Danielsen born in Hamburg (Germany) | |
| October 13 - Freud begins his internship under Professor Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris | |
| 1886 | February 28-April 3 - Freud leaves Paris for Berlin and an internship with professor Baginsky, at the Clinic of Children's Diseases, to prepare for his future post at the Kassowitz Clinic in Vienna |
| March 28 - Henri Flournoy born in Geneva (Switzerland) | |
| April 25 - Freud opens his medical practice in Vienna on Easter Day, at No. 7 Rathausstrasse | |
| May 22 - Angélo Hesnard born in Pontivy, Morbihan (France) | |
| September 13 - Civil marriage of Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays at the Wandsbek Rathaus. Brief religious ceremony on September 15 | |
| October 16 - Adelheid Lucy Koch born in Berlin (Germany) | |
| 1887 | January 6 - Sergei Pankejeff, the Wolf Man, born in Russia on January 6 in the Gregorian Calendar (December 24, 1886, in the Julian Calendar), died in Vienna in 1979 |
| January 29 - René Spitz born in Vienna (Austria) |
| July 9 - Heinrich Meng born in Hohenhurst (Germany) | |
| September 7 - Julio Pires Porto-Carrero born in Pernambuco (Brazil) | |
| September 26 - James Strachey born in London (Great Britain) | |
| October 12 - Karl Landauer born in Munich (Germany) | |
| October 16 - Mathilde Freud (first child of Sigmund and Martha) born in Vienna, Maria-Theresienstrasse 8 | |
| November 10 - Arnold Zweig born in Glogau (Silesia) | |
| November 24 - Freud's first letter to Wilhelm Fliess | |
| 1888 | January 13 - Edward Glover born in Lesmahagow, Scotland (Great Britain) |
| May 12 - Theodor Reik born in Vienna (Austria) | |
| 1889 | February 19 - René Allendy born in Paris (France) |
| May 1 - First day of treatment of Emmy von N . . . "Don't move! Don't say anything! Don't touch me!" | |
| July 19-August 9 - Freud travels to Nancy to visit Hippolyte Bernheim, then to Paris | |
| August 8-12 - First International Congress of Experimental Hypnotism and Therapy in Paris, for which Freud is registered | |
| August 11 - William R. Fairbairn born in Edinburgh, Scotland (Great Britain) | |
| September 21 - Edoardo Weiss born in Trieste (Italy) | |
| October 23 - Frieda Fromm-Reichmann born in Karlsruhe (Germany) | |
| November 13 - Imre Hermann born in Budapest (Hungary) | |
| December 6 - Jean Martin Freud (second child of Sigmund and Martha) born in Vienna, Maria-Theresia-Str. 8 | |
| Clark University founded (USA); Stanley Hall (1844-1924) is named president | |
| 1891 | January 22 - Franz Alexander born in Budapest (Hungary) |
| February 19 - Oliver Freud (third child of Sigmund and Martha) born in Vienna, Maria-Theresia-Str. 8 | |
| May 2 - Freud publishes his first book, dedicated to Breuer, Zur Auffassung der Aphasien (Towards an Interpretation of Aphasia) | |
| August 17 - Abram Kardiner born in New York (USA) | |
| September - The Freud family moves to 19 Berggasse, where they will reside until 1938 | |
| September 12 - Géza Róheim born in Budapest (Hungary) | |
| October 11 - Dorothy Burlingham-Tiffany born in New York (USA) | |
| 1892 | March 7 - Siegfried Bernfeld born in Lemberg, Galicia (Poland) |
| April 6 - Ernst Freud (fourth child of Sigmund and Martha) born in Vienna, 19 Berggasse | |
| May 6 - Jacob Freud gives Sigmund the second volume of the Philippson Bible for his thirty-fifth birthday |
| June 28 - First letter in which Freud uses the familiar "you" with Wilhelm Fliess | |
| October - In the case of Frl E. von R.., Freud renounces hypnotism and creates the "concentration technique" for what he calls "psychic analysis" | |
| November 8 - Therese Benedek born in Budapest (Hungary) | |
| 1893 | February - Translated in Spanish in the Barcelona Medical Sciences Review, volume XIX, no. 3, "Psychic Mechanisms of Hysterical Phenomena: Preliminary Communication." The article is also published in the Gaceta Médica de Granada ("Grenada Medical Gazette"), volume XI, 232 and 233. According to James Strachey, it's "the very first publication of a translation of a psychological work by Freud in the world" |
| April 12 - Sophie Freud (fifth child of Sigmund and Martha) born in Vienna, 19 Berggasse | |
| July 22 - Karl A. Menninger born in Topeka, Kansas (USA) | |
| July 29 - Pierre Janet defends his medical thesis in Paris: "Contribution to the Study of Mental Accidents Among the Hysterical" | |
| August 16 - Jean-Martin Charcot dies suddenly in Quarré-les-Tombes in the Morvan (France) | |
| October 3 - Clara M. Thompson born in Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | |
| 1894 | April - Frederick W. H. Myers reports on the "Preliminary Communication" during a session at the Society for Psychical Research (London). Jones states that this report was the basis for his interest in Freud's work (Great Britain) |
| April 20 - Edward Bibring born in Stanislau, Galicia (Poland) | |
| May 3 - Phyllis Greenacre born in Chicago, Illinois (USA) | |
| August 2 - Raymond de Saussure born in Geneva (Switzerland) | |
| November 4 - Heinz Hartmann born in Vienna (Austria) | |
| November 5 - René Laforgue born in Thann, Alsace (Germany) | |
| William James writes a summary of the "Psychic Mechanisms of Hysterical Phenomena: Preliminary Communication" in the Psychological Review (USA) | |
| 1895 | February - Wilhelm Fliess operates on Emma Eckstein, Freud's patient, and forgets a dressing in the operating room |
| March 4 - First account of a dream as "wish fulfillment," Rudi Kaufmann's dream on sleeping (Frau Breuer's nephew) | |
| May 15 - Freud and Josef Breuer publish Studies on Hysteria | |
| July 24 - Freud's first complete analysis of one of his own dreams about "the injection given to Irma" on the night of July 23-24 during his vacation at the Bellevue Hotel, near Vienna | |
| August - Freud goes to Italy for the first time, accompanied by his brother Alexander |
| September 21 - While returning to Berlin in the train, after a meeting withW. Fliess, Freud edits the beginning of the "Outline of a Scientific Psychology" | |
| November 29 - Minna Bernays, Martha's sister, comes to stay with the Freuds and remains with them until the end of her life | |
| December 3 - Anna Freud, sixth and last child of Sigmund and Martha, born in Vienna, 19 Berggasse | |
| 1896 | March 30 - First appearance of the word "psycho-analysis" in an article by Freud in French on "L'Hérédité et l'étiologie des névroses" (Heredity and Etiology of Neuroses) in the Revue neurologique (1896a) |
| April 7 - Donald W. Winnicott born in Plymouth (Great Britain) | |
| October 23 - Jakob Freud dies after four months of illness. He is buried two days later (dream: "We are asked to close our eyes/an eye") | |
| December 3 - Michael Balint (Bàlint, Mihály) born in Budapest (Hungary) | |
| 1897 | January - Freud's first four dreams of Rome date from January of this year |
| March 27 - Wilhelm Reich born in Dobrzcynica, Galicia (Poland) | |
| May 10 - Margaret Mahler-Schönberger born in Sopron (Hungary) | |
| July - Beginning of Selbstanalyse (self-analysis) | |
| July 17 - Heisaku Kosawa born in Atsugi, Kanagawa (Japan) | |
| September 8 - Wilfred R. Bion born in Mattra (United Provinces, India) | |
| September 21 - Cesare Musatti born in Dolo, Venice (Italy) | |
| September 21 - Letter to Wilhelm Fliess: "I don't believe anymore in my neurotica" | |
| September 23 - Freud joins the B'nai-B'rith-Gesellschaft | |
| September 26 - Max Schur born in Stanislav (Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine) | |
| October 15 - Letter to Wilhelm Fliess: first mention of the future "Oedipus complex" | |
| December 2 - Otto Fenichel born in Vienna (Austria) | |
| December 5 - First conference on dreams at the B'nai-B'rith-Gesellschaft | |
| December 22 - Nicola Perrotti born in Penne, Pescara (Italy) | |
| December 25 - In Breslau Freud meets with Wilhelm Fliess, who talks to him about bisexuality and bilaterality | |
| 1898 | February 9 - Rudolph M. Loewenstein born in Lodz (Poland) |
| February 9 - "I am giving up self-analysis to devote myself to a book on dreams" writes Freud to W. Fliess | |
| May 6 - Richard F. Sterba born in Vienna (Austria) | |
| August 21 - John Rittmeister born in Hamburg (Germany) |
| September 22 - First analysis, written to Wilhelm Fliess, on forgetting the name of Signorelli, the painter of the "Last Judgment" in Orvieto | |
| 1899 | January 11 - Grete Bibring-Lehner born in Vienna (Austria) |
| February 3 - Paula Heimann-Glatzko born in Danzig (Germany) | |
| July 20 - Edmund Bergler born in Austria | |
| August 6 - Werner Kemper born in Hilgen, Rhenania (Germany) | |
| August 27 - Final writing and first corrections to the drafts of The Interpretation of Dreams | |
| September 11 - The manuscript of The Interpretation of Dreams is delivered to the printer | |
| October 24 - Date of the dedication in the copy of The Interpretation of Dreams sent to Wilhelm Fliess: "Seinem theuern Wilhelm z. 24 OKT 1899" | |
| November 27 - Durval Marcondes born in São Paulo (Brazil) | |
| 1900 | January 8 - "The new century, which interests us especially owing to the fact that it includes in itself the date of our death, only brought me a stupid report in the Zeit," wrote Freud to Wilhelm Fliess |
| March 23 - Erich Fromm born in Frankfurt (Germany) | |
| April 24 - Freud gives a conference on Fécondité by Emile Zola before the B'nai-B'rith-Gesellschaft | |
| April 26 - Ernst Kris born in Vienna (Austria) | |
| May 27 - Marianne Kris-Rie born in Vienna (Austria) | |
| September 24 - "I'm slowly writing the 'Psychopathology of Everyday Life,"' writes Freud to Wilhelm Fliess | |
| October 14 - The beginning of Dora's treatment announced; it ends on December 31 | |
| 1901 | April 14 - Jacques Lacan born in Paris (France) |
| August 7 - "You side against me saying that 'he who read the thoughts of others only finds his own thoughts,' which takes away all validity from my research," Freud writes to Wilhelm Fliess, their distance more pronounced day by day. | |
| August 30-September 14 - Freud's first trip to Rome accompanied by his brother Alexander | |
| September 23 - Sacha Nacht born in Racacini, Bacau (Romania) | |
| November 23 - Muriel M. Gardiner born in Chicago, Illinois (USA) | |
| The Archives de psychologie founded in Geneva by Edouard Claparède and his uncle Théodore Flournoy (Switzerland) | |
| Freud publishes Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens (Über Vergessen, Versprechen, Vergreifen, Aberglaube und Irrtum) (The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, 1901b) | |
| 1902 | March 5 - Freud is named "outstanding professor" |
| March 11 - Freud's last letter to Wilhelm Fliess before Swoboda affair in 1904 |
| April 9 - Annie Reich-Pink born in Vienna (Austria) | |
| June 15 - Erik Homburger Erikson born in Frankfurt (Germany) | |
| October - Freud sends postcards inviting Alfred Adler, Wilhelm Stekel, Max Kahane, and Rudolph Reitler to scientific meetings entitled "Psychological Wednesday Society" ("Psychologischen Mittwoch-Vereinigung"). Alfred Meisl and Paul Federn will join him in 1903 | |
| 1903 | February 14 - Marriage of Carl G. Jung and Emma Rauschenbach |
| June - Otto Weininger's book, Geschlecht und Charakter (Sex and Character) published. He commits suicide on October 4 | |
| August 11 - Celes Ernesto Cárcamo born in La Plata (Argentina) | |
| August 28 - Bruno Bettelheim born in Vienna (Austria) | |
| August 3 - Daniel Lagache born in Paris (France) | |
| 1904 | April 26 - Freud resumes contact with Wilhelm Fliess, but Fliess later accuses Freud of being at the source of the plagiarism of his discovery on bisexuality, for which Hermann Swoboda is later found guilty |
| June 24 - Angel Garma born in Bilbao (Spain) | |
| August 14 - Emilio Servadio born in Sestri, Genoa (Italy) | |
| August 17 - Sabina Spielrein is admitted to the Burghölzli Shelter, where she will be treated by Jung in a method inspired by Freud (Switzerland) | |
| September 4 - Freud's improvised voyage with his brother Alexander in Greece. Trip to the Acropolis in Athens | |
| 1905 | Eduard Hitschmann joins the "Psychologischen Mittwoch-Vereinigung" |
| Otto Rank and Eugen Bleuler write to Freud | |
| Publication of two books by Freud: Der Witz et seine Beziehung zum Unbewußten (The Joke and its Relationship with the Unconscious, 1905c), Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie (Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, 1905d), and of two articles, "Über Psychotherapie" (On Psychotherapy, 1905a) and "Bruchstück einer Hysterie-Analyse" (Dora: An Analysis of Case of Hysteria, 1905e), begun in 1901 | |
| Ragnar Vogt, future leading professor of psychiatry in Norway, draws on Freud's psycho-cathartic method in Psykiatriens grundtræk (Outline of Psychiatry) (Norway) | |
| 1906 | February - First article on psychoanalysis in the USA written by James J. Putnam in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology (USA) |
| April 11 - Carl Gustav Jung's first letter to Freud | |
| May 8 - In Freud's letter to Arthur Schnitzler: "I have often asked myself with astonishment where you gather knowledge of such and such a hidden point, when I only acquired it after tedious investigative work, and I came to envy the writer that I already admired." | |
| September - Freud's Sammlung kleiner Schriften zur Neurosenlebre aus den Jahren 1893-1906, Volume I (Collection of Articles on Neuroses, Dating from 1893 to 1906) published |
| October 10 - First meeting of the Psychological Wednesday Society where Otto Rank "functions as paid secretary." The sessions take place every Wednesday at 8:30 pm at Freud's home. The conferences begin at 9:00 pm. The order of the speakers in the discussion is determined by drawing lots. | |
| 1907 | January 1 - After the publication of Psychologie der Dementia praecox by Carl G. Jung, Freud writes to him: "Please quickly renounce this error that your writing on dementia praecox did not very much please me. The simple fact that I expressed criticism can prove it to you. Since, if it were otherwise, I would find sufficient diplomacy to hide it from you. It would really be wiser to go against the best that were ever associated with me. I see, in reality, in your essay on d. pr. the most important and rich contribution to my work that I have come across, and I don't see among my students in Vienna, who probably have a non univocal advantage over you from personal contact with me, in fact only one can put himself on the same rank as you for comprehension, and none are up to do as much for the cause as you, and ready to do it." |
| January 30 - Max Eitingon visits Freud, with a patient | |
| February 26 - John Bowlby born in London (Great Britain) | |
| March 3 - Carl G. Jung and Ludwig Binswanger's first visit with Freud on Sunday, March 3 at 10:00 am | |
| June 8 - Edouard Claparède, the director of the laboratory of experimental psychology in Geneva, visits Carl G. Jung to be introduced to the technique of association (Switzerland) | |
| June 25 - Enrique Pichon-Rivière born in Geneva (Switzerland) | |
| June 25 - Karl Abraham's first letter to Freud | |
| July 4 - First reading in France of "The Psycho-Analytical Method and Freud's 'Abwehr Neuropsychosen"' by Adolf Schmiergeld and P. Provotelle during the session of the Neurology Society in Paris | |
| September 2-7 - First International Congress of Psychiatry, Psychology and Assistance for the Insane in Amsterdam. Carl G. Jung responds to attacks against Freud (Netherlands) | |
| September 27 - First session of the Freud-Gesellschaft in Zurich, founded by Carl G. Jung (Switzerland) | |
| October 1 - First consultation of the Rat Man | |
| October 9 - Freud announces his intention to dissolve the Psychological Wednesday Society to create the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society | |
| November 6 - Freud presents the case of the Rat Man to the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society and Otto Rank notes: "The technique of the analysis has changed in the sense that the psychoanalyst no longer seeks to obtain the material that interests himself, but allows the patient to follow the natural and spontaneous course of his thoughts" | |
| December 15 - Karl Abraham's first visit with Freud | |
| Studie über Minderwertigkeit von Organen (Study on the | |
| Inferiority of Organs) by Alfred Adler published (Austria) |
| 1908 | February 2 - Sándor Ferenczi, accompanied by Fülöp Stein, visits Freud for the first time |
| April 15 - The Wiener Psychoanalytische Vereinigung (Vienna Psychoanalytical Society) founded | |
| April 26-27 - Zusammenkunft für Freudsche Psychologie, first international congress on Freudian psychology in Salzburg, a meeting suggested by Carl G. Jung. Freud's conference on the Rat Man lasts four hours | |
| April 30 - Ernest Jones and Abraham A. Brill visit and lunch with Freud in Vienna | |
| May 3 - Freud's first letter to Stefan Zweig | |
| May 8 - Cyro Martins born in Porto Alegre (Brazil) | |
| June 2 - Kurt Eissler born in Vienna (Austria) | |
| August 27 - First meeting of the Berlin Psychoanalytical Association founded by Karl Abraham with Iwan Bloch, Magnus Hirschfeld, and Otto Juliusburger (Germany) | |
| September 2-15 - Freud travels to England to visit his elder brothers | |
| September 20 - Alexander Mitscherlich born in Munich (Germany) | |
| September 26 - Ernest Jones settles in Toronto at the Toronto Lunatic Asylum (Canada) | |
| October 3 - Ignacio Matte-Blanco born in Santiago (Chile) | |
| November 6 - Françoise Dolto-Marette born in Paris (France) | |
| Nikolai Ossipov meets Freud in Vienna. He edits the translations of Freud's works and founds the first psychoanalytical circle in Moscow, the "little Fridays" (Russia) | |
| Ludwig Jekels edits the first publications of Freud in the Polish language (Poland) | |
| Nervöse Angstzustände und ihre Behandlung (Nervous Anxiety States and Their Treatment) by Wilhelm Stekel published (Austria) | |
| 1909 | January 18 - Freud's first letter to Oskar Pfister |
| February 7 Marriage of Mathilde, the first of Freud's children to marry, to Robert Hollitscher | |
| March - First half-volume of the Jahrbuch für psychopathologische und psychoanalytische Forschungen. Directors: Eugen Bleuler and Freud. Editor-in-chief: Carl G. Jung | |
| March 10 - Alfred Adler gives a conference at the Vienna Society: "From Psychology to Marxism" | |
| April 25 - Oskar Pfister's first visit with Freud | |
| May 30 - Sabina Spielrein's first letter to Freud for an interview on the subject of his relationship with Carl G. Jung | |
| July 2 - Pieter van der Leeuw born in Zutphen (Netherlands) | |
| August 27 - Freud, Carl G. Jung and Sándor Ferenczi arrive in New York, at the invitation of G. Stanley Hall. Freud is named Doctor Honoris Causa at Clark University (Worcester, Massachussetts) where he gives, beginning on September 6, five conferences on psychoanalysis. On November 9, 1909, Putnam writes to him: "Your visit to America had a profound impact on me; I work and I read your writings with an even greater interest." (USA) |
| October 16 - Jeanne Lampl-de Groot born in Schiedam (Netherlands) | |
| November 17 - Correspondence begins between Freud and James Jackson Putnam | |
| Study Group in Sydney founded by Dr. Donald Fraze (Australia) | |
| First article on psychoanalysis written by a Spanish psychiatrist, Dr. Gayarre, "Sexual Origin of Hysteria and General Neurosis," published in the Clinical Review of Madrid (Spain) | |
| Psychoterapia (Psixoterapija - Obozrenie voprosov lecenija i prikladonoj psixologii) founded. It is published until 1917 (Russia) | |
| Freud publishes "Analyse der Phobie eines fünfjahrigen Knaben (Der kleine Hans)" (Little Hans) 1909b, first study of the case from which the clinical material, originating from the cure of a child by his father, Max Graf, confirms the Freudian theories of child sexuality | |
| Freud publishes "Bemerkungen über einen Fall von Zwangsneurose (Der Rattenmann)" (Remarks on a Case of Obsessional Neurosis (The Rat Man), 1909d) | |
| Der Mythus der Geburt des Helden. Versuch einer psychologischen Mythendeutung (The Myth of the Birth of the Hero) by Otto Rank published (Austria) | |
| Traum und Mythus. Eine Studie zur Völkerpsychologie. Schriften zur angewandten Seelenkunde (Dreams and Myths) by Karl Abraham published (Germany) | |
| 1910 | February - Beginning of the first analysis of the "Wolf Man," Sergei Konstantinovich Pankejeff. It concludes on July 14, 1914 |
| March 30 - First public definition of countertransference in Freud's conference at the Nuremburg Congress: "Our attention is directed to the 'counter-transference' which registers with the physician as a consequence of the influence the patient exerts upon the unconscious feelings of his analyst. We are all ready to require that the physician recognizes and controls in himself this conter-transference." (1910d) | |
| March 30 - Berliner Psychoanalytische Vereinigung (Berlin Psychoanalytic Society) founded (Germany) | |
| March 30-31 - 2nd Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Nuremberg (Germany) during which the International Psychoanalytical Association is founded with its headquarters in Zurich (Switzerland). President: Carl G. Jung. Secretary: Franz Riklin. The existing psychoanalytical associations become local branches. Its official monthly mouthpiece, the Korrespondenzblatt, founded. The Zentralblatt fur Psychoanalyse; Medizinische Monatsschrift für Seelenkunde (Central sheet for psychoanalysis; Medical monthly for Psychology) is founded; Freud is the editor-in-chief and the editors are Alfred Adler and Wilhelm Stekel | |
| April - The Wiener Psychoanalytische Vereinigung (Vienna Psychoanalytical Society) leaves Freud's residence and meets at Doktorenkollegium, Rothenturmstr. 19 (Austria) | |
| April 10 - Margarethe Hilferding-Hönigsberg becomes the first female member of the Viennese Psychoanalytical Society (Austria) |
| May 2 - The American Psychopathological Association founded by Ernest Jones, in conjunction with A.A. Brill, August Hoch, Morton Prince, and James Putnam. President: Morton Prince (USA) | |
| July 2 - Herbert Rosenfeld born in Nuremberg (Germany) | |
| August 23 - Freud's letter to Poul Bjerre (Sweden) marks the beginning of their correspondence | |
| August 30 - Freud "analyzes" Gustav Mahler during his stay in Leiden (Holland) | |
| September 24 - Arminda Aberastury born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) | |
| October 12 - Alfred Adler is elected president and Wilhelm Stekel vice-president of the Viennese Psychoanalytical Society (Austria) | |
| December - Freud's first letter from France, from Dr. Pierre Morichau-Beauchant, in Poitiers: "This letter will show you that you also have disciples in France who passionately follow your work" (France) | |
| Germán Greve Schlegel publishes the first psychoanalytical article known in Latin America, in Chile: "Sobre Psicología y Psicoterapia de Ciertos Estados Angustiosos." The presentation of this study in Buenos Aires in 1910 was noted by Freud in the Zentralbaltt fur Psychoanalyse (1911) and in Contribution to the History of the Psychoanalytical Movement (1914d) (Chile) | |
| The term Oedipus complex appears in Freud's article entitled "Contribution to the Psychology of Love" (1910h) | |
| The Flexner report, underlining the lack of teaching standards in teaching medicine, is published in America. It becomes one of the bases for refusing non-doctors in American psychoanalytical associations (USA) | |
| Freud publishesÜber psychoanalyse (Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, 1910a), deriving from conferences given in the United States | |
| Freud publishes Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci (Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood, 1910c) | |
| 1911 | January - Psychoanalytical group in Munich founded by Leonhard Seif (Germany) |
| January 17 - Poul Bjerre gives a conference on "Freud's Psychoanalytical Method" before the Association of Swedish Doctors (Sweden) | |
| February 12 - New York Psychoanalytic Society founded by Abraham A. Brill with fifteen physicians, in opposition to the American Psychoanalytic Association that Ernest Jones founds in May (USA) | |
| February 22 - Alfred Adler and Wilhelm Stekel resign from their posts at the head of the Vienna Society; Freud resumes the presidency with Eduard Hitschmann as vice-president and Hanns Sachs as librarian | |
| May - Jan van Emden and August Stärke visit Freud (Holland) | |
| May 2 - Leonid Drosnes visits Freud (Odessa) | |
| May 9 - American Psychoanalytic Association founded in Baltimore by Ernest Jones with James Putnam and eleven members, the majority physicians (USA) |
| June - Alfred Adler leaves the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society (Wiener Psychoanalytischen Vereinigung). Nine members and the editorial staff of Zentralblatt follow suit in July (Austria) | |
| June 28 - First psychoanalytical lecture addressed to the medical community by David Eder at a conference of the British Medical Association: while he speaks, the audience leaves (Great Britain) | |
| August 14 - Maurice Bouvet born in Eu, Seine Maritime (France) | |
| September - Sigmund Freud writes "On Psycho-Analysis" (1913n [1911]), at the request of Andrew Davidson, secretary of the Branch of Psychological Medicine and Neurology at the Australian Medical Congress in Sydney (Australia) where, in addition, lectures are given by Carl G. Jung and Havelock Ellis | |
| September 20 - Ralph Greenson born in Brooklyn, New York (USA) | |
| September 21-22 - 3rd Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Weimar (Germany). President: Carl G. Jung | |
| October 30 - Emma Jung writes to Freud about the uneasiness between her and her husband since the publication in the Jahrbuch of the beginning of "Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido" (Metamorphosis and Symbols of the Libido) by Carl G. Jung | |
| December - Eugen Bleuler resigns from the International Psychoanalytical Association | |
| Freud, A. Einstein, D. Hilbert, E. Mach, etc., sign a Call (Aufruf) for the creation of an association to express positivist philosophy | |
| 1912 | March - Imago. Zeitschrift für die Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften founded (1912-1941). Editorial Director: Sigmund Freud. Editors-in-chief: Otto Rank and Hanns Sachs |
| July 30 - Ernest Jones suggests, at Sándor Ferenczi's instigation, the founding of a Secret Committee excluding Carl G. Jung and including as members himself, Freud, Karl Abraham, Ferenczi, Otto Rank, Hanns Sachs, and, starting in 1919, Max Eitingon | |
| September - Carl G. Jung is invited by Smith Ely Jeliffe to give nine conferences at Fordham University, in New York (USA) | |
| September 3 - Jacob A. Arlow born in New York (USA) | |
| September 27 - Lou Andreas Salomé first letter to Freud | |
| November 6 - Wilhelm Steckel resigns from the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society (Austria) | |
| November 24 - Presidents' conference in Munich: Carl G. Jung and Franz Riklin for the IPA, Freud, Ernest Jones, Karl Abraham, and J.H.W. van Ophuijsen. Freud faints (Germany) | |
| December 18 - Carl G. Jung's letter to Freud marks the rupture: "I am in fact not at all neurotic—good thing (. . .) You know well how far the patient can go in his self-analysis, he doesn't come out of his neurosis—like you. One day when you will be completely freed from complexes and you no longer play the father towards your sons, in whom you constantly sight the weaknesses, that you will put yourself into that position, then I want to |
| reverse myself and eliminate all at once the sin of my disagreement with you." | |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute founded in Geneva by Edouard Claparède (Switzerland) | |
| 1913 | January 15 - To replace the Zentralblatt fur Psychoanalyse, the Internationale Zeitschrift für ärztliche Psychoanalyse is founded at the instigation of S. Ferenczi and O. Rank |
| May 19 - Budapest Psychoanalytic Society founded by Sándor Ferenczi. President: S. Ferenczi, Vice-president: I. Hóllos, Secretary: S. Rádo, Treasurer: Lajos Lévy (Hungary) | |
| May 25 - First meeting of the Secret Committee. Freud offers to each a Greek intaglio taken from his own collection that they will have mounted in signet rings. Ernest Jones is the president | |
| August 5 - Carl G. Jung uses the expression "analytical psychology" for the first time in a conference ("General Aspects of Psychoanalysis") before the London Psychomedical Society (Great Britain) | |
| August 6-12 - 17th International Medical Congress in London. Confrontation between Pierre Janet and Ernest Jones to whom Freud then wrote: "I will not know how to say how much I was overcome by your report to the Congress and by the way in which you had undone Janet in front of your compatriots" (Great Britain) | |
| September 7-8 - 4th Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Munich. President: Carl G. Jung, who resigns from his post as editor-in-chief of the Jahrbuch (Germany) | |
| October - The Psychoanalytic Review in New York founded by Smith Ely Jeliffe and William Alanson White, Director of the Government Hospital for the Insane, Washington, DC (USA) | |
| October - Freud publishes Totem and Taboo (1912-1913) as a book | |
| October 15 - Frances Tustin born in Darlington (Great Britain) | |
| October 30 - The London Psycho-Analytic Society founded by Ernest Jones. President: E. Jones, Vice-president: Douglas Bryan, Secretary: M. D. Eder | |
| Alfred Adler transforms the Verein für Freie Psychoanalytische Forschung (Society for Psychoanalytical Research), founded after his secession, into Verein für Individualpsychologie (Society for Individual Psychology) (Austria) | |
| A. A. Brill (New York) publishes the first English translation of The Interpretation of Dreams (USA) | |
| 1914 | April 20 - Carl G. Jung resigns from the International Psychoanalytical Association. Karl Abraham is elected as provisional president of the association |
| May - Boston Psychoanalytic Society founded. President: James Putnam, Secretary: Isador Coriat (USA) | |
| June - Freud publishes "Zur Einführung des Narzißmus" (On Narcissism: An Introduction, 1914c) and "Zur Geschichte der psychoanalytischen Bewegung" (On the History of the Psychoanalytical Movement, 1914d) |
| June 28 - The Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo | |
| July 6 - The Washington Psychoanalytic Society founds St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, DC, with acting president William Alanson White, Hospital Superintendent (USA) | |
| July 10 - The Zurich local branch (Carl G. Jung, Eugen Bleuler, Alfons Maeder, etc.) vote fifteen to one for its definitive withdrawal from the International Psychoanalytical Association (Switzerland) | |
| July 28 - Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, the first stage of the First World War | |
| November 2 - Beginning of the First World War | |
| December - Publication of the Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse is suspended by Deuticke, the editor | |
| First official recognition of psychoanalysis in Europe with a lecture by Gerbrandus Jelgerma at the University of Leyde (Netherlands) | |
| Publication of La psycho-analyse des névroses et des psychoses. Ses applications médicales et extra-médicales (Psychoanalysis of Neuroses and Psychoses. Their Medical and Extra-Medical Applications) by Emmanuel Régis and Angélo Hesnard, first book in France devoted to psychoanalysis (France) | |
| 1915 | March-July - Freud works on twelve essays on metapsychology of which only five will be published between 1915 and 1917 |
| June 10 - Serge Lebovici born in Paris (France) | |
| September 15 - Freud observes his grandson Ernst Wolfgang Halberstadt, eighteen months old, indulge in the game "fort-da" with a spindle | |
| October-March 1916 - Last series of conferences during the winter semester at the University published under the title of Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse (Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, 1916-1917a [1915-17]), "in front of an auditorium of around 70 people, among which were two of my daughters and one daughter-in-law," writes Freud. Otto Fenichel takes part | |
| Sulla psicoanalisi, Cinque Conferenze sulla psicoanalisi, the first work of Freud translated into Italian by Marco Levi Bianchini published for the "Biblioteca Psichiatrica Internazionale" (Italy) | |
| Genserico Pinto publishes his thesis, Da Psicanálise. A sexualidade das Neuroses, in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) | |
| 1916 | February 28 - Danilo Perestrello born in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) |
| May 6 - Freud's sixtieth birthday, celebrated discreetly because of the war. Edouard Hitschmann gives him an "undelivered speech" | |
| September 15 - Serge Viderman born in Rimnic-Sarat (Romania) | |
| 1917 | March 24 - Neederlandsche Vereeniging voor Psychoanalyse (Netherlands Society for Psychoanalysis) founded by Gerbrandus Jelgersma, Jan van Emden, Johan H.W. van Ophuijsen, and Johann Stärke (Netherlands) |
| May 27 - Georg Groddeck's first letter to Freud, who replies on June 5: "Whoever recognized that transference and resistance constitute the pivot of treatment belong forever to our uncivilized horde" | |
| November 7 - The Bolsheviks take power in Russia (October Revolution) | |
| Ruíz Castillo, at the suggestion of José Ortega y Gasset, buys the publishing rights for the complete works of Sigmund Freud in Spanish, past and future. López Ballesteros is responsible for the translation (Spain) | |
| Geza Róheim publishes in Imago the first psychoanalytical article written by an anthropologist, "Spiegelzauber" (The Magic Mirror), an excerpt of a book that will be published in 1919 | |
| 1918 | March 11 - Pierre Marty born in St. Céré, Lot (France) |
| September 28-29 - 5th Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association, in the Great Room of the Academy of Sciences of Hungary, in Budapest (Hungary). Freud's conference: "Wege der psychoanalytischen Therapie" (Paths of Psychoanalytical Therapy). Sándor Ferenczi is elected president of the IPA but the political situation in Hungary will lead Ernest Jones to succeed him in October 1919 as "acting president" | |
| November 4 - James Jackson Putnam dies in Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | |
| November 11 - The Armistice ends the First World War | |
| December 3 - In the name of the foundation created by Anton von Freund, Freud awards a medical prize for the article by Karl Abraham on the pregenital phase of the libido, in part, as well as for the brochure by Ernst Simmel on the neuroses of war, and the Imago prize for the article by Theodor Reik on the puberty rites of primitive societies | |
| The Revista de Psiquiatria y Disciplinas Conexas, founded by Hermilio Valdizán and Honorio Delgado in Lima (Peru) | |
| Freud publishes "Aus der Geschichte einer infantilen Neurose" (From the History of an Infantile Neurosis, The Wolf Man, 1918b [1914]) | |
| 1919 | January 15 - The publishing house Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag founded. Editorial Board: S. Freud, S. Ferenczi, A. von Freund, and O. Rank. Otto Rank is the director of the organization; Theodor Reik, assistant. |
| February 20 - British Psycho-Analytical Society founded by Ernest Jones (Great Britain) | |
| March 24 - Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Psychoanalyse (Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis) founded by Oskar Pfister, Ludwig Binswanger, Herman Rorschach, Emil and Mira Oberholzer, etc. (Switzerland) | |
| April 29 - Sándor Ferenczi receives his nomination as professor with the creation of the first Psychoanalysis Chair at the University of Budapest. In August, the Miklós Horthy's anti-Semitic government removes Ferenczi from this post, then from the management of the Batizfalvy Sanatorium on May 28, 1920. He will finally be expelled from the Royal Association of Medicine in Budapest for "collaboration with the Bolsheviks" (Hungary) | |
| July 3 - Viktor Tausk commits suicide in Vienna (Austria) |
| October - Max Eitingon becomes a member of the Secret Committee | |
| Kinderheim Baumgarten founded by Siegfried Bernfeld. Nearly three hundred Polish-Jewish refugees, boys and girls, are taken in, a model for future psychoanalytical teaching institutions (Germany) | |
| Geneva Psychoanalytical Circle founded by Edouard Claparède, who becomes president (Switzerland) | |
| Tatiana Rosenthal becomes director of the Polyclinic for the Treatment of Psychoneuroses in connection with the V. Bechterev Research Institute in St. Petersburg (Russia) | |
| "Über die Entstehung des Beiflussnngsaparate in der schizophrenie" (On the Origin of the "Influencing Machine" in Schizophrenia) by Viktor Tausk published (Austria) | |
| Tagebuch eines halbwüchsigen Mädchens (A Young Girl's Diary) by Hermine von Hug-Hellmuth published (Austria) | |
| 1920 | January 25 - Freud's daughter, Sophie Halberstadt, dies during the epidemic of the Spanish flu |
| February 14 - Poliklinik für psychoanalytische Behandlung nervöser Krankheiten (Polyclinic for Psychoanalytical Treatment of Mental Illness), known as the Berliner Poliklinik (Berlin Polyclinic), situated at 29 Potsdamerstrasse, founded by Max Eitingon, Ernst Simmel, and Karl Abraham. It was arranged by Ernst Freud (Germany) | |
| September - Genfer Psychoanalytische Gesellschaft (Geneva Psychoanalytic Society), founded with the participation of Pierre Bovet, Henri Flournoy, Charles Odier, Pierre Morel, Sabina Spielrein, W. Boven, and Raymond de Saussure. President: Edouard Claparède (Switzerland) | |
| September 8-11 - 6th Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in The Hague (Netherlands). President: Ernest Jones (acting president), Introduction by Freud "Ergänzungen zur Traumlehre" (Additions to the Dream Doctrine) | |
| September 20 - Beginning of the 361 Rundbriefe (circular letters) exchanged between the members of the Secret Committee until March 14, 1926 | |
| October 15 - Meeting of the Kommission für Kriegsneurosenbehandlung (Commission for the Treatment of War Neuroses). Freud presents his expertise | |
| December - Publication of Freud's first book translated into French, "Five Lectures from 1909," under the title "Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis" in the Geneva Review. Translator is Yves Le Lay and the preface is by Edouard Claparède. (Switzerland) | |
| Melanie Klein's first publication "Der Familienroman in Statu Nascendi" in the Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse | |
| The Italian review Archivio generale di neurologia, psichiatria e psicoanalisi and the American journal Psyche and Eros founded (Italy-USA) | |
| O pansexualismo na doutrina de Freud by Franco da Rocha, first professor of neuro-psychiatry at the Medical School of São Paulo, published (Brazil) |
| The Tavistock Clinic, 51 Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury, London, founded by Crichton-Miller (Great Britain) | |
| International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, the English publication of Die Internationale Zeitschrift für Aertzliche Psychoanalyse, and of the "Glossary Committee," with Joan Riviere, James and Alix Strachey, with an eye to the future Standard Edition, founded by Ernest Jones (Great Britain) | |
| "Biblioteca Psicoanalitica Internazionale" founded by Marco Levi Bianchini (Italy) | |
| Freud publishes Jenseits des Lustprinzips (Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 1920g) | |
| 1921 | March - Eugénie Sokolnicka, Polish psychoanalyst analyzed by S. Ferenczi and Freud, establishes herself in Paris with Freud's endorsement (France) |
| April 18 - Franco Fornari born in Rivergaro, Piacenza (Italy) | |
| August - Detski Dom (Children's Home) founded in Moscow, under the authority of Ivan Ermakov, President of the Society and of the Psychoanalytical Institute, but directed by Vera Schmidt. Sabina Spielrein practices there upon their return to Russia in 1923 (Russia) | |
| August 6 - Freud publishes Massenpsychologie und Psychoanalyse des Ich (Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, 1921c) | |
| André Breton visits Freud in Vienna (France) | |
| The New Library of Psycho-Analysis founded by Ernest Jones. The publication is ensured by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press (Great Britain) | |
| A psychoanalytical association founded in Moscow with Vera and Otto Schmidt, Ivan Ermakov, Mosche Wulff, I.W. Kannabich, Alexander Riom Luria. It was not be recognized at the 7th Congress of the IPA (Russia) | |
| 1922 | January 22 - Indian Psycho-Analytical Society in Calcutta founded by Girindrasekhar Bose (India) |
| February 20 - Berliner Psychoanalytische Institut (BPI) (Berlin Psychoanalytical Institute) founded, comprised of the polyclinic, a training institute (conferences, seminars on case studies, didactic and controlled analyses) and a commission on the cursus (Germany) | |
| May 14 - Freud's letter to Arthur Schnitzler: "I think that I avoided you from a kind of fear of meeting my double" | |
| May 22 - Lehrinstitut der Wiener Psychoanalytischen Vereinigung ("Ambulatorium," the Vienna psychoanalytical polyclinic) opens under Eduard Hitschmann's direction (Austria) | |
| June 13 - Anna Freud becomes a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society | |
| July 25 - François Perrier born in Paris (France) | |
| August 13 - Willy Baranger born in Bône (Algeria) | |
| September - A psychoanalytical work group is created in Leipzig around Therese Benedek (Germany) | |
| September 25-27 - Seventh Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Berlin (Germany). President: Ernest Jones. A prize is created for a competition whose subject is: "Relationship of analytical technique and analytical theory" |
| December 14 - Francesco Corrao born in Palermo (Italy) | |
| The first volume of the Spanish translation of Freud's works published, translated by López Ballesteros with a foreword by José Ortega y Gasset. Published in seventeen volumes between 1922 and 1932 (Spain) | |
| 1923 | March 4 - Freud's first letter to Romain Rolland: "I will keep until the end of my days the joyful memory of having been able to exchange a greeting with you. Since for us your name is associated with the most precious of all the beautiful illusions, the one of love expanding for all humanity." (France) |
| April - Freud publishes Das Ich und das Es (The Ego and the Id, 1923b) | |
| April 20 - Freud's first operation by the oto-rhino-laryngologist Marcus Hajek, Schnitzler's brother-in-law: excision on the right side of the upper jaw of a leucoplast. Freud writes to Jones on the April 25: "I still have not begun working again, and I cannot swallow anything. They assured me the thing is benign, but as you know, nobody can guarantee the evolution when it will begin again to develop. Personally, I had diagnosed an epithelioma, but they didn't go along with me. Tobacco is the suspect in the etiolation of this tissue in rebellion." | |
| June 19 - Heinz Rudolf Halberstadt ("Heinerle" or "Heinele"), Sophie's second son, dies in Vienna at four and a half years old, from miliary tuberculosis. Freud writes to Ludwig Binswanger on October 15, 1926: "He was the favorite of my children and grandchildren, and since Heinele's death I can no longer stand my grandchildren, and I no longer have a taste for life. That's the secret of my indifference—what was called courage—facing my own risk of death." | |
| July 8 - Didier Anzieu born in Melun (France) | |
| August 2-7 - Angélo Hesnard presents the annual psychiatric report during the 17th Congress of Alienists and Neurologists of France and of French-language countries (Besançon): "Psychoanalysis. Etiological, methodological, therapeutic and psychiatric value of doctrine." In its conclusion he writes: "It is there that Psychoanalysis, relieved from its terminological errors, from its doctrinaire utterances, and from the symbolic artifice of semiological research, is connected with Psychiatry, of which it is tributary, and with clinical psychology (. . .) It is there that this doctrine-method, still awkward, but very perfectible, has its incontestable rights to our scientific and French sympathy." (France) | |
| August 26 - Meeting of the Secret Committee at the Castel Toblio, then at San Cristoforo, at the Lago Caldonazzo. This will be the last, due to the dissensions, particularly between Ernest Jones and Otto Rank, and the Committee will be dissolved in April 1924. This is likewise Freud's last stay in Italy | |
| October - Edoardo Weiss gives a conference on psychoanalysis at the Florence Congress of the Italian Society of Psychology (Italy) | |
| October 4 and 11 - Operations on Freud's tumor at the Auersperg Sanatorium. He is henceforth required to wear a prosthesis that makes eating and speaking painful for him | |
| October 22 - Maud (Magdalena) Mannoni-van der Spoel born in Courtrai (Belgium) |
| October 25 - René Laforgue's first letter to Freud (France) | |
| November 19 - Piera Aulagnier-Spairani born in Milan (Italy) | |
| December - Das Trauma der Geburt (The Trauma of Birth) by Otto Rank published (Austria) | |
| Because of Freud's illness, Paul Federn will assume the vice-presidency of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society from 1923 to 1938 | |
| Buch vom Es. Psychoanalytische Briefe an eine Freundin by Georg Groddeck published (Germany) | |
| The New York Psychoanalytic Society designates the first Educational Committee, in charge of organizing and improving its pedagogical activities (USA) |