title: [Splinters and germs of thought. Freud's notebooks from 1901 till 1910].
abstract: The authors discovered a series of small notebooks from the years 1901-1915 in the Freud Collection of the Library of Congress (two of them being not yet accessible). The article provides a first impression of their form, content and characteristics. Some events in Freud's life and his preoccupation with certain matters can now be dated more precisely; some ideas can be related to the treatment of certain patients; the origins of certain metapsychological theories can be pursued. A number of personal contacts are mentioned in these booklets, Freud's travels are often precisely documented. Some aphoristic formulations shed a new light on Freud's self-image.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin, Goethestr. 6, D-72076 Tübingen. gerhard.fichtner@uni-tuebingen.de
authors.forename: Gerhard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fichtner
authors.forename: Albrecht
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hirschmüller
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D004282:Documentation / Q000266:history*; D005619:Freudian Theory; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*; D014956:Writing / Q000266:history*