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[FREUD, SIGMUND] Guest book or album amicorum inscribed by Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, Marie Buonaparte, Max Halberstadt and René and Paulette Laforgue.
Vienna?: 26 July 1932-30 September 1936. Full mottled calf by Hubert & Lerner, Vienna. 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (19 x 14 cm); 4 ff. (of circa 100) with the signatories, rectos only. Spine lacking, binding worn, internally fine.
Several major figures in the psychoanalytic movement signed this book, apparently at the behest of a host, hostess, or friend. Sigmund Freud signed the first page, dating his inscription 26th July, 1932 (with a three-word sentiment in German). At this time Freud was still living in Vienna, which he left in 1938. Marie Bonaparte (Princess George of Greece and Denmark), the French author and psychoanalyst, appears to have joined him; her inscription in German bears the same date, and also carries a sentiment thanking the recipient for a good meal. After a hiatus of one leaf, Ernest Jones, Freud's lifelong friend and his biographer, signed the book, dated August 24, 1934, noting that it was "A souvenir of a delightful and eventful experience." Max Halberstadt, the Hamburg photographer best known for his portraits of Freud, his father-in-law, signed on 2 February 1936. Rene Laforgue, the French psychoanalyst, and his wife Paulette, conclude the series with a signature and sentiment (again in German) dated 30 September, 1936. Unfortunately, there is no indication, internal or external, as to who owned this guest book.
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