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FREUD, Sigmund. A group of four autograph letters signed and one autograph postcard signed ("Freud") to Dr. Max Marcuse, editor of the journal Sexuell Probleme . Vienna (3) and Berchtesgaden (1), 14 August, 1 and 25 December 1908, 11 January 1910, the postcard 14 February 1938. Together 6 1/2 pages, 8vo-4to, three letters on Freud's usual printed stationery, the prepaid postcard addressed by Freud to Marcuse in Tel-Aviv, Palestine (the letters removed from a notebook, each with two small circular holes in margin, causing loss of a few letters, but not significantly affecting legibility). Marcuse, who may have been one of three students in Freud's lectures in spring 1900, later became a sexologist in Berlin, and edited the journal Sexuelle Probleme , which published two Freud papers: "Die 'kulturelle' Sexualmoral und die moderne Nervositt," (March 1908) and "ber infantile Sexualtheorien" (December 1908). The two earliest letters in the present series concern these two papers, which Freud intends to republish in his Collected Papers , and reveal Freud's determination to establish that his own writings on infantile psychology preceded the work of others (especially Albert Moll, Sexualleben des Kindes , which acknowledged certain of Freud's writings on the subject but did not credit Freud as its discoverer). The letter of 25 December recommends Marcuse publish an article, "Introjection and Transference" by "my colleague Sandor Ferenczi of Budapest" (the article in question later appeared in the Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse , 1909). In Freud's 11 January 1911 letter, he responds to a request that he endorse for publication an autobiographical article by a Marcuse patient; Freud expresses some reservations but agrees to send it, neverthless, to Carl Jung, editor of the Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse . The final postcard apparently concerns the possibility of republishing two articles Freud had contributed to the Handworterbuch der Sexualwissenschaft , edited by Marcuse, in 1923, which may require changes, Freud cautions. Stanford 74; Norman F66. (5)