The Post-War Surgence: the Twenties

Abstract

IN HIS biography of Sigmund Freud,¹ Ernest Jones places the beginnings of international recognition for the psychoanalytic movement between 1906 and 1909. There were tiny signs before 1914 of some interest in psycho-analysis in England at the meetings of the British Medical Association. But it was not until after the war that translations of all Freud’s works, from a number of hands, appeared in England and the United States. There was a great deal of talk about Freud and his theories in intellectual circles in this country. The British Psycho-Analytical Society was reorganized in February 1919 and psycho-analysis extended into the discussions of at least the new Medical Section of the British Psychological Society.