ABSTRACT
Freud's authorship is founded on three arguments: 1) the reasoning of the article is close to Charcot's lectures which Freud had just translated; 2) there is a specific Freudian core thesis, common to the article and his later writings, namely the notion of an associative speech area extending between the "motor fields of the cortex and those of the optic and auditory nerves" and touching them like "corners" of a continuous field; 3) general observations on the revision or non- revision of articles taken over from the 1st to the 2nd edition of Villaret.
Subject(s)
Aphasia/history , Authorship/history , Freudian Theory , Psychoanalysis/history , Publishing/history , Austria , History, 19th Century , History, 20th CenturyABSTRACT
Starting from an unpublished list of contributors to the handbook, Freud's authorship is established for three unsigned articles about the cranial nerves abducens, accessorius and (in parts) facialis. His authorship of the "Aphasia" article which has been disputed by Scherrer is confirmed. The section "II. physiology" of the article on the brain which has come to be ascribed to him is positively attributed to the physiologist Johannes Gad, the article on infantile paralysis to Alfred Goldscheider.
Subject(s)
Aphasia/history , Authorship , Brain Diseases/history , Central Nervous System Diseases/history , Dictionaries, Medical as Topic , Neurosciences/history , Psychoanalysis/history , Austria , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , HumansABSTRACT
Proceeding from two discrepant published transcriptions of a letter of Charcot to Freud, the author discusses the historical and theoretical background of Freud's paper. She emphasizes the influence of Charcot on Freud's early theory formation, as opposed to that of Janet.