Sachs H. Masks of love and life: The Philosophical Basis of Psychoanalysis

Edited with an Introduction, Memoir, and Glossary By A. A. Roback. Foreword by Anna Freud. — Cambridge, MA: Sci-Art Publishers, 1948. — 308 p.Hanns Sachs was a pupil and follower of Freud for more than forty years. He remained, during this period, closely associated with the development of psychoanalytic theory, practice and instruction, as an outstanding figure in the progress of the psychoanalytic movement in Europe and the United States. Since 1904, when he first became acquainted with the new science by reading Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, the position of psychoanalysis in the external world has undergone various and decisive changes. After having been repudiated by medicine, and disregarded
by the orthodox schools of psychiatry, psychoanalysis has, especially since the first World War, entered into a new phase of its existence. It is accepted increasingly as an important approach to the problems of psychotherapy of the neuroses, to clinical psychiatry and — recently, under the title of psychosomatic medicine — to many disorders of the body which were hitherto regarded and treated as purely physical disturbances. Psychoanalysis has thus gained standing in the professional world: the teaching of psychoanalytic theories and their application to therapy has been included in the curriculum of some medical schools in the United States; and at least a minimum knowledge of psychoanalytic principles is, in many places, considered indispensable for every medical practitioner, to enable him to make differential diagnoses between organic and functional disorders and to carry out preliminary investigations and treatments "on analytical lines.” In the struggle between the relative importance of psychoanalysis for the medical and non-medical fields — Hanns Sachs has consistently thrown his weight on the latter side. As editor of the journal
Imago (founded in 1912 in conjunction with Otto Rank, under the direction of Freud, and continued, in the United States, as The American Imago) Hanns Sachs was the first to summarize the work done in psychoanalysis as applied to the social sciences, and to advocate further research in these directions. As an author, he followed up these suggestions himself, in his own writings, which, apart from the description of clinical states, ranged widely over the fields of dream interpretation and the study of the unconscious; the exploration of fantasies and day-dreams; the conditions
of artistic creativeness; the study of literary and historical personalities; and the importance of psychoanalysis for sociological problems.Foreword by Anna Freud
Dr. Hanns Sachs. A Memoirby A. A. Roback
Introduction by A. A. RobackPeering Over the Fence
Locked in a Room With Open Doors
The Free Man
At the Gates of Heaven
Liberation Through Knowledge
The Mending of Shadows
From Pleasure
To Happiness
The Variables
Love and Learn
Boon or Burden
The Foundations of Hate
School For Hate
Reformers
A New Beginning
The Path to the Tree of Life.