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Ferenczi) were among the featured attractions proved that interna–
tional Freudianism is alive, and that the Germans have been re–
habilitated. But it papered over the split among these reconstituted
Freudians , which was manifested by the fact that Margarete Mitscher–
lich - who not only collaborated with her husband during the plan–
ning of the institute but was Germany's earliest leading training ana–
lyst-was not asked to playa major role . Still, that Dieter Ohlmeier,
the president of the German Psychoanalytic Verein, publicly com–
mented on this problem did show that Freud's spirit lives on.
NextJune, Ohlmeier and Anna Maria Accerboni, who presided
at Trieste, will join many other analysts and historians at the first
meeting of the International Association for the History of Psycho–
analysis in Paris . There, I believe, the question of who owns Freudian
history will be fought out. And in the process, old myths will be re–
vived and new ones will be created.
