Maria Pierri is a psychiatrist and child neuropsychiatrist, formerly researcher and adjunct professor at the Psychiatric Clinic, Medical School, University of Padua. She is a training analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and International Psychoanalytical Association and member of the Editorial Board of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi.

"The book by Maria Pierri, a passionate and recognized connoisseur of "coincidences", can be read as an engrossing detective novel of historical reconstruction as it unfolds towards its resolution, elegantly written and full of surprises, and opening up unexpected new fields of thought. Which is not to say that it actually is a novel: rather, it is real History with a capital H, thoroughly documented with a precise investigative method which revisits one of the most mysterious and controversial areas of Freudian research, that of telepathy." - Stefano Bolognini, past President of the IPA and the Italian Psychoanalytic Society."With rigorous documentation, including previously unpublished material, and elegant writing, Maria Pierri conducts a passionate investigation of hypnosis, occultism, suggestion, "coincidences and misunderstandings", studied by Freud, who applied his scientific mentality to them. The secrets and enigmas around the origins of psychoanalysis, the deep ties and conflicts between the pioneers "who made the venture" with Freud will emerge from the courageous search for that "elsewhere" of human thoughts we call unconscious, with which we are confronted daily in clinical practice and theory." - Paola Golinelli Training analyst, Italian Psychoanalytic Society. Author of Psychoanalytic Reflection on Writing, Cinema and the Arts. Routledge, 2021."Maria Pierri’s work is not only an excellent example of historical and archival research into the interest of emergent psychoanalysis in telepathic events, but a radical demonstration – thanks to the "work as a double" performed by thought-transmission – of how unsustainable it is to maintain that Freud was a monist. In this way, through the wealth of phenomena being observed, the author opens up a new direction for study and theoretical enquiry that will send us back to Freud, differently every time, and to his very early intuition of a psychic field that is created in the analytic relationship." - Maurizio Balsamo, Training analyst, Italian Psychoanalytic Society. Maître de Conférences et Directeur de Recherche, UFR Études Psychanalytiques, Université Paris–Diderot

• Prologue: telepathy, superstitions and mushrooms 1. Coincidences of the psychoanalytic setting: a strange home visitM de Fortgibu and his plum-puddingThe maternal in the circumstances of the setting: the psychoanalytic clock"All things are chained, knotted, in love..."Coincidences in analysis: sites of memory Notable examples: From Carl G. Jung; From Eugenio Gaddini; From José Bleger; From Joyce McDougallTelepathy, an enlightening mistake Freud and the "Forsyth case"2. Forsyth arrives in Vienna to undertake a seven-week analysis with Prof Freud The decline of the WestIntroduction to psycho-analysis: the first 28 lecturesHunger in Vienna Parcels from EnglandA passage to AustriaA piece of forgetfulness by Freud3. Herr P ends his analysis with Prof Freud in a rather extraordinary way New introductory lectures on psychoanalysisThe "Forsyth case"Solve et coagulaThe Postscript of a Preface 4. The duellistsMeeting in ZurichThe duellistsThe first training analysis in Budapest Forsyth, the pediatrician "once a friend of mine"5. Nachträglichkeit: following the traces of a long deferralFreud becomes a heretic: the debate about the "transmission of thought" within the committeeA mistake by FreudThe memorable Harzreise 1921, an essay in two halves: Vorbericht-preface; Nachtrag-postscript1922, dreams and Telepathy Perplexities, second thoughts, and experiments with Ferenczi and Anna1925, section C: "The Occult Significance"Still playing for time1933, Lecture XXX, "Dream and Occultism"The gold coin6. The disappeared-occulted manuscript The posthumous publication of the Vorbericht (1921) in "Psychoanalysis and Telepathy" (1941) and the disappearance of the NachtragHide and seekBack to Freud's secret text: found in translation7. Sigmund Freud: postscript (1921) 8. Manuscript details, slips, and errors Conditions and details Freud’s "errors" and the occulted "dritte Fall" Nachträglichkeit and reconstructions9. During the Great WarHistorical and personal circumstancesA coming-of-age prematurely interruptedFreud’s forced inactivity: the Metapsychology and the Introductory LecturesImpotence and death anxiety. Towards the uncanny defeatErnest Jones’s warFerenczi's kisses10. Coincidences in Vienna: a week of fireworks in autumn 1919 The new orientation towards the West The heart towards the East11. The strange case of Dr Forsyth and Mr Vorsicht: the build-up The "secret language" The Man of Property Setting the scene: the preconscious at workCorrespondencesThe Fortsein game: The troublesome individual and a first repression; The missed appointment; The coincidence of the "neighbours"; The joke of the "home visit"; An ambivalent gift12. The strange case of Dr Forsyth and Mr Vorsicht: the session Vorsicht, forsyth, forsyte The visiting card The Freud-Freund slip The nightmare and Jones's monograph on the "Alptraum" The faulty translations 13. That Forsyte Woman Return to the mothers – telepathy, "distant proximity"Don Giovanni: Zitto, mi pare sentire odor di femmina.... 14. Retrospective: the lost sceneCaritas Romana: "This is the place, this is the source"A destiny and a choice made long ago"Little Freud": a child is being conceivedMe too!15. A hereditary transmission A daughter is being analysed Lou Andreas Salomé: a mother-sister Thought-transmission? A pair of twin papers: The father’s text; The daughter’s text"Lifedeath""Not to be there": the process of separation and the game of FortseinAnna, Antigone16. 1932 "Dreams and Occultism" and "Confusion of Tongues between Adults and the Child"17. "Herr Vorsicht," alias Paul Bernfeld"The eldest of a family of eight or nine children"The firm of Paul Bernfeld and Heinrich Rosenberg, B & R: jokes and repetitions by the preconscious18 A secret in the "Preface": the substitute of the third case 19. Dr David Forsyth leaves the scene and the story: circumstances of the birth of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis Seven weeks in ViennaThe Forsyth affaireForsyth leaves the scene20. The Freud’s final orientation towards the West: from Vienna to London"Fortsein": Professor Freud has "gone away"Fort-Da. the return: story of a cap21. The importance of being Ernest Jones. The cycle closes Transmission of the tradition and "crypts"Free Associations: Memories of a Psycho-AnalystEpilogue: a debt to payBibliography

Maria Pierri is a psychiatrist and child neuropsychiatrist, formerly researcher and adjunct professor at the Psychiatric Clinic, Medical School, University of Padua. She is a training analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and International Psychoanalytical Association and member of the Editorial Board of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi.

"The book by Maria Pierri, a passionate and recognized connoisseur of "coincidences", can be read as an engrossing detective novel of historical reconstruction as it unfolds towards its resolution, elegantly written and full of surprises, and opening up unexpected new fields of thought. Which is not to say that it actually is a novel: rather, it is real History with a capital H, thoroughly documented with a precise investigative method which revisits one of the most mysterious and controversial areas of Freudian research, that of telepathy." - Stefano Bolognini, past President of the IPA and the Italian Psychoanalytic Society."With rigorous documentation, including previously unpublished material, and elegant writing, Maria Pierri conducts a passionate investigation of hypnosis, occultism, suggestion, "coincidences and misunderstandings", studied by Freud, who applied his scientific mentality to them. The secrets and enigmas around the origins of psychoanalysis, the deep ties and conflicts between the pioneers "who made the venture" with Freud will emerge from the courageous search for that "elsewhere" of human thoughts we call unconscious, with which we are confronted daily in clinical practice and theory." - Paola Golinelli Training analyst, Italian Psychoanalytic Society. Author of Psychoanalytic Reflection on Writing, Cinema and the Arts. Routledge, 2021."Maria Pierri’s work is not only an excellent example of historical and archival research into the interest of emergent psychoanalysis in telepathic events, but a radical demonstration – thanks to the "work as a double" performed by thought-transmission – of how unsustainable it is to maintain that Freud was a monist. In this way, through the wealth of phenomena being observed, the author opens up a new direction for study and theoretical enquiry that will send us back to Freud, differently every time, and to his very early intuition of a psychic field that is created in the analytic relationship." - Maurizio Balsamo, Training analyst, Italian Psychoanalytic Society. Maître de Conférences et Directeur de Recherche, UFR Études Psychanalytiques, Université Paris–Diderot

• Prologue: telepathy, superstitions and mushrooms 1. Coincidences of the psychoanalytic setting: a strange home visitM de Fortgibu and his plum-puddingThe maternal in the circumstances of the setting: the psychoanalytic clock"All things are chained, knotted, in love..."Coincidences in analysis: sites of memory Notable examples: From Carl G. Jung; From Eugenio Gaddini; From José Bleger; From Joyce McDougallTelepathy, an enlightening mistake Freud and the "Forsyth case"2. Forsyth arrives in Vienna to undertake a seven-week analysis with Prof Freud The decline of the WestIntroduction to psycho-analysis: the first 28 lecturesHunger in Vienna Parcels from EnglandA passage to AustriaA piece of forgetfulness by Freud3. Herr P ends his analysis with Prof Freud in a rather extraordinary way New introductory lectures on psychoanalysisThe "Forsyth case"Solve et coagulaThe Postscript of a Preface 4. The duellistsMeeting in ZurichThe duellistsThe first training analysis in Budapest Forsyth, the pediatrician "once a friend of mine"5. Nachträglichkeit: following the traces of a long deferralFreud becomes a heretic: the debate about the "transmission of thought" within the committeeA mistake by FreudThe memorable Harzreise 1921, an essay in two halves: Vorbericht-preface; Nachtrag-postscript1922, dreams and Telepathy Perplexities, second thoughts, and experiments with Ferenczi and Anna1925, section C: "The Occult Significance"Still playing for time1933, Lecture XXX, "Dream and Occultism"The gold coin6. The disappeared-occulted manuscript The posthumous publication of the Vorbericht (1921) in "Psychoanalysis and Telepathy" (1941) and the disappearance of the NachtragHide and seekBack to Freud's secret text: found in translation7. Sigmund Freud: postscript (1921) 8. Manuscript details, slips, and errors Conditions and details Freud’s "errors" and the occulted "dritte Fall" Nachträglichkeit and reconstructions9. During the Great WarHistorical and personal circumstancesA coming-of-age prematurely interruptedFreud’s forced inactivity: the Metapsychology and the Introductory LecturesImpotence and death anxiety. Towards the uncanny defeatErnest Jones’s warFerenczi's kisses10. Coincidences in Vienna: a week of fireworks in autumn 1919 The new orientation towards the West The heart towards the East11. The strange case of Dr Forsyth and Mr Vorsicht: the build-up The "secret language" The Man of Property Setting the scene: the preconscious at workCorrespondencesThe Fortsein game: The troublesome individual and a first repression; The missed appointment; The coincidence of the "neighbours"; The joke of the "home visit"; An ambivalent gift12. The strange case of Dr Forsyth and Mr Vorsicht: the session Vorsicht, forsyth, forsyte The visiting card The Freud-Freund slip The nightmare and Jones's monograph on the "Alptraum" The faulty translations 13. That Forsyte Woman Return to the mothers – telepathy, "distant proximity"Don Giovanni: Zitto, mi pare sentire odor di femmina.... 14. Retrospective: the lost sceneCaritas Romana: "This is the place, this is the source"A destiny and a choice made long ago"Little Freud": a child is being conceivedMe too!15. A hereditary transmission A daughter is being analysed Lou Andreas Salomé: a mother-sister Thought-transmission? A pair of twin papers: The father’s text; The daughter’s text"Lifedeath""Not to be there": the process of separation and the game of FortseinAnna, Antigone16. 1932 "Dreams and Occultism" and "Confusion of Tongues between Adults and the Child"17. "Herr Vorsicht," alias Paul Bernfeld"The eldest of a family of eight or nine children"The firm of Paul Bernfeld and Heinrich Rosenberg, B & R: jokes and repetitions by the preconscious18 A secret in the "Preface": the substitute of the third case 19. Dr David Forsyth leaves the scene and the story: circumstances of the birth of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis Seven weeks in ViennaThe Forsyth affaireForsyth leaves the scene20. The Freud’s final orientation towards the West: from Vienna to London"Fortsein": Professor Freud has "gone away"Fort-Da. the return: story of a cap21. The importance of being Ernest Jones. The cycle closes Transmission of the tradition and "crypts"Free Associations: Memories of a Psycho-AnalystEpilogue: a debt to payBibliography

Maria Pierri is a psychiatrist and child neuropsychiatrist, formerly researcher and adjunct professor at the Psychiatric Clinic, Medical School, University of Padua. She is a training analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and International Psychoanalytical Association and member of the Editorial Board of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi.

"The book by Maria Pierri, a passionate and recognized connoisseur of "coincidences", can be read as an engrossing detective novel of historical reconstruction as it unfolds towards its resolution, elegantly written and full of surprises, and opening up unexpected new fields of thought. Which is not to say that it actually is a novel: rather, it is real History with a capital H, thoroughly documented with a precise investigative method which revisits one of the most mysterious and controversial areas of Freudian research, that of telepathy." - Stefano Bolognini, past President of the IPA and the Italian Psychoanalytic Society."With rigorous documentation, including previously unpublished material, and elegant writing, Maria Pierri conducts a passionate investigation of hypnosis, occultism, suggestion, "coincidences and misunderstandings", studied by Freud, who applied his scientific mentality to them. The secrets and enigmas around the origins of psychoanalysis, the deep ties and conflicts between the pioneers "who made the venture" with Freud will emerge from the courageous search for that "elsewhere" of human thoughts we call unconscious, with which we are confronted daily in clinical practice and theory." - Paola Golinelli Training analyst, Italian Psychoanalytic Society. Author of Psychoanalytic Reflection on Writing, Cinema and the Arts. Routledge, 2021."Maria Pierri’s work is not only an excellent example of historical and archival research into the interest of emergent psychoanalysis in telepathic events, but a radical demonstration – thanks to the "work as a double" performed by thought-transmission – of how unsustainable it is to maintain that Freud was a monist. In this way, through the wealth of phenomena being observed, the author opens up a new direction for study and theoretical enquiry that will send us back to Freud, differently every time, and to his very early intuition of a psychic field that is created in the analytic relationship." - Maurizio Balsamo, Training analyst, Italian Psychoanalytic Society. Maître de Conférences et Directeur de Recherche, UFR Études Psychanalytiques, Université Paris–Diderot

• Prologue: telepathy, superstitions and mushrooms 1. Coincidences of the psychoanalytic setting: a strange home visitM de Fortgibu and his plum-puddingThe maternal in the circumstances of the setting: the psychoanalytic clock"All things are chained, knotted, in love..."Coincidences in analysis: sites of memory Notable examples: From Carl G. Jung; From Eugenio Gaddini; From José Bleger; From Joyce McDougallTelepathy, an enlightening mistake Freud and the "Forsyth case"2. Forsyth arrives in Vienna to undertake a seven-week analysis with Prof Freud The decline of the WestIntroduction to psycho-analysis: the first 28 lecturesHunger in Vienna Parcels from EnglandA passage to AustriaA piece of forgetfulness by Freud3. Herr P ends his analysis with Prof Freud in a rather extraordinary way New introductory lectures on psychoanalysisThe "Forsyth case"Solve et coagulaThe Postscript of a Preface 4. The duellistsMeeting in ZurichThe duellistsThe first training analysis in Budapest Forsyth, the pediatrician "once a friend of mine"5. Nachträglichkeit: following the traces of a long deferralFreud becomes a heretic: the debate about the "transmission of thought" within the committeeA mistake by FreudThe memorable Harzreise 1921, an essay in two halves: Vorbericht-preface; Nachtrag-postscript1922, dreams and Telepathy Perplexities, second thoughts, and experiments with Ferenczi and Anna1925, section C: "The Occult Significance"Still playing for time1933, Lecture XXX, "Dream and Occultism"The gold coin6. The disappeared-occulted manuscript The posthumous publication of the Vorbericht (1921) in "Psychoanalysis and Telepathy" (1941) and the disappearance of the NachtragHide and seekBack to Freud's secret text: found in translation7. Sigmund Freud: postscript (1921) 8. Manuscript details, slips, and errors Conditions and details Freud’s "errors" and the occulted "dritte Fall" Nachträglichkeit and reconstructions9. During the Great WarHistorical and personal circumstancesA coming-of-age prematurely interruptedFreud’s forced inactivity: the Metapsychology and the Introductory LecturesImpotence and death anxiety. Towards the uncanny defeatErnest Jones’s warFerenczi's kisses10. Coincidences in Vienna: a week of fireworks in autumn 1919 The new orientation towards the West The heart towards the East11. The strange case of Dr Forsyth and Mr Vorsicht: the build-up The "secret language" The Man of Property Setting the scene: the preconscious at workCorrespondencesThe Fortsein game: The troublesome individual and a first repression; The missed appointment; The coincidence of the "neighbours"; The joke of the "home visit"; An ambivalent gift12. The strange case of Dr Forsyth and Mr Vorsicht: the session Vorsicht, forsyth, forsyte The visiting card The Freud-Freund slip The nightmare and Jones's monograph on the "Alptraum" The faulty translations 13. That Forsyte Woman Return to the mothers – telepathy, "distant proximity"Don Giovanni: Zitto, mi pare sentire odor di femmina.... 14. Retrospective: the lost sceneCaritas Romana: "This is the place, this is the source"A destiny and a choice made long ago"Little Freud": a child is being conceivedMe too!15. A hereditary transmission A daughter is being analysed Lou Andreas Salomé: a mother-sister Thought-transmission? A pair of twin papers: The father’s text; The daughter’s text"Lifedeath""Not to be there": the process of separation and the game of FortseinAnna, Antigone16. 1932 "Dreams and Occultism" and "Confusion of Tongues between Adults and the Child"17. "Herr Vorsicht," alias Paul Bernfeld"The eldest of a family of eight or nine children"The firm of Paul Bernfeld and Heinrich Rosenberg, B & R: jokes and repetitions by the preconscious18 A secret in the "Preface": the substitute of the third case 19. Dr David Forsyth leaves the scene and the story: circumstances of the birth of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis Seven weeks in ViennaThe Forsyth affaireForsyth leaves the scene20. The Freud’s final orientation towards the West: from Vienna to London"Fortsein": Professor Freud has "gone away"Fort-Da. the return: story of a cap21. The importance of being Ernest Jones. The cycle closes Transmission of the tradition and "crypts"Free Associations: Memories of a Psycho-AnalystEpilogue: a debt to payBibliography