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Freud was ecstatic by the invitation and by the prospect of lecturing to a distinguished American audience. After years of [[working]] in "splendid [[isolation]]" he found himself "received by the foremost men as an equal. As I stepped on to the platform at Worcester to deliver my Five Lectures on [[Psycho]]-[[Analysis]] it seemed like the realization of some incredible day-dream: psycho-analysis was no longer a product of a [[delusion]], it had become a valuable part of [[reality]]. It has not lost ground in America since our visit . . ." (Freud, 1925d, p.52). In the audience were William [[James]] (he and Freud walked together and James suffered what was probably an angina attack from the heart disease that was to kill him shortly thereafter), Emma Goldman, and many other notables.
To be spontaneous, Freud delivered the five lectures without [[notes]] or extensive preparation; he simply talked with Ferenczi shortly before each lecture [[about]] the day's topic. Later, Freud changed the [[text]] somewhat before publication by Clark's house [[organ]]. Intending a general introduction, Freud discussed [[hysteria]], [[repression]] and the talking [[cure]], functions and [[interpretation]] of [[dreams]], [[childhood]] [[sexuality]], and [[symptoms]]. One of the great [[intellectual]] events of [[The Century|the century]], the trip greatly stimulated the growth of [[psychoanalysis]] in the United States: the American [[Psychoanalytic]] [[Association]] was founded in Baltimore just two years later, years earlier than may have been the [[case]] otherwise.
ROBERT SHILKRET
