[Primal psychoanalytic manuscript. 100 years "Studies of Hysteria" by Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud]

In 1895 Breuer and Freud jointly published the Studies on Hysteria, a work that Grubrich-Simitis regards as the very first psychoanalytic monograph. The author begins by outlining the intellectual context in which the work took shape and the initial reception accorded to it by contemporary medical science and sexology. The main focus of the discussion centres around those aspects of the book that mark it out as a genuinely psychoanalytic work - hitherto unknown quality of seeing and hearing, a radical change in the relationship between doctor and patient, the establishment of a new form of case presentation and the development of approaches adumbrating psychoanalytic theory and technique. In conclusion the author describes the scientific cooperation between Freud and Breuer, assigning to the latter his rightful place in the history of psychoanalysis, a status frequently denied him by Freudians.