ALMANACH DER PSYCHOANALYSE

The first Almanach der Psychoanalyse was published in 1926 by Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag in Vienna. The job of publishing the Almanach, a highly effective publicity vehicle, was the first editorial decision made by Adolf Josef Storfer after the departure of Otto Rank as director of the press. Storfer's goal was to supply a kind of budget anthology of psychoanalysis that would provide an overview of the psychoanalytic literature.

The Almanach was published once a year from 1926 until 1938, when the Germans entered Austria. There were thirteen volumes in all, comprising between two and three hundred pages each; nine thousand copies of each octavo volume were printed. Each number contained about twenty short articles written by psychoanalysts, scientists, and writers (including Thomas Mann, Stefan Zweig, and Hermann Hesse), articles that had previously appeared in the psychoanalytic literature, pages from books published by Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, and, in rare cases, unpublished writing. Freud helped support the Almanach by publishing "Humor" and "Fetishism," two unpublished texts of his, in 1928. Each volume also contained portraits of the various psychoanalysts and critiques of works on psychoanalysis excerpted from newspapers and the trade press, as well as a list of new publications by Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag.

Andrea Huppke

See also: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag.

Bibliography

Freud, Sigmund. (1927d). Humour. SE, 21: 159-166.

——. (1927e). Fetishism. SE, 21: 147-157.