The Wolf-Man and Sigmund Freud

It is a well known that the Wolf-Man was the subject of what James Strachey described as 'the most elaborate and no doubt the most important of all Freud's case histories'. It is less well known that he was still living in Vienna more than half a century since his analysis with Freud. In this remarkable biographical account, the Wolf-Man comes alive not only through Freud's case history, which is reprinted in full, and Ruth Mack Brunswick's account of the follow-up analysis which she conducted, but also through his own autobiographical memoirs covering his childhood in Russia, his recollections of Freud, his marriage, and the circumstances of his life in Vienna after the First World War. The story of the Wolf-Man's later years is told by the editor of this volume, the author, who kept in close touch with him following the shattering suicide of his wife in 1938.

Introduction , Foreword , The Memoirs of the Wolf-Man , Recollections of My Childhood , 1905-1908 Unconscious Mourning , 1908 Castles in Spain , 1909-1914 Shifting Decisions , 1914-1919 After My Analysis , 1919-1938 Everyday Life , 1938 The Climax , Psychoanalysis and the Wolf-Man , My Recollections of Sigmund Freud , The Case of the Wolf-Man from the History of an Infantile Neurosis , A Supplement to Freud’s “History of an Infantile Neurosis’’ (1928) , The Wolf-Man in Later Life , Meetings with the Wolf-Man (1938-1949) , Another Meeting with the Wolf-Man (1956) , The Wolf-Man Grows Older , Diagnostic Impressions

Muriel Gardiner