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(1993). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 74:775-790

'Through Privation to Knowledge': Unknown Documents from Freud's University Years

Eva Laible

In 1911, the 'Society for the Support of Impecunious Jewish Students in Vienna' published a Denkschrift, or memorandum, in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation. Apart from historical data about the Society, it contained a large collection of autographed literary and artistic contributions by personalities from cultural and intellectual circles, expressing their support for the Society's humanitarian aims. The contributors included the poet Arthur Schnitzler, the philosopher Theodor von Gomperz, and the composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, to name but a few. Freud wrote an aphorism, in which, after a brief philosophical digression, he asks who might be deserving of charitable support, and stresses the importance of a willingness to undergo privation in order to achieve an end. His aphorism reads as follows:

In the past asceticism—renunciation and privation—was seen as a means to power; today its place has been taken by knowledge. It seems ap

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