HISTORY, SCIENCE & PHILOSOPHY 84 First Edition In Original Wrappers Of Freud’s Introductory Lectures On Psychoanalysis, Wonderfully Inscribed By Freud To His Colleague And Friend Rudolf Reitler 91FREUD, Sigmund, Prof. Dr. Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in die Psychoanalyse. Leipzig und Wien, 1916-17. Three volumes. Small octavo (4 by 6-1/2 inches), contemporary full mottled brown calf, custom chemise, slipcase. $25,000 First edition in original wrappers of all three volumes of one of Freud’s most popular works, the Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, inscribed in Volume II on the front wrapper to Rudolf Reitler, a friend and colleague of Freud who was instrumental in the development of psychoanalysis and the first person after Freud himself to perform analysis on patients: “Herr Dr. R. Reitler mit herzlichen Gruss. Verf[asser]” [Dr. R. Reitler with warm regards. The Author]. Rudolf Reitler, to whom the second volume in this set is inscribed, was a close friend and colleague. The two had attended university together, and both were doctors in Vienna treating patients with psychological symptoms. “In the autumn of 1902 Freud addressed a postcard to these four men, [Alfred] Adler, [Max] Kahane, Reitler, and [Wilhelm] Stekel, suggesting that they meet for discussion of his work at his residence... from then on they formed the habit of meeting every Wednesday evening for discussions in Freud’s waitingroom” (Jones, II:8). Within a few years this group would develop into the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society; it was, in a very real sense, the beginning of psychoanalysis as a movement. Reitler himself was “the first person to practice psychoanalysis after Freud” (Jones II:7), a fact often acknowledged be Freud. He died unexpectedly in 1917, only one year after this inscription. Modest soiling to all volumes, with expert repairs to Volume II. A wonderful inscribed item, with an association linking it to the very beginnings of the psychoanalytic movement.
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