1939

Freud group thumbnailImago becomes American Imago

Sigmund Freud and Hanns Sachs re-found the journal in the United States, seeking to continue the psychoanalytic discussions of culture, literature, and society begun in Europe. Freud suggests the title American Imago, and Sachs serves as editor.

In the first volume, Otto Fenichel, a fellow Central European immigrant psychoanalyst now living in America, contributes the piece "Psychoanalysis of Antisemitism."

On September 23, Freud dies in England at the age of 83.

Just a month later, Otto Rank (editor of the original Imago) also passes away.

Photo: Freud (seated, far left), Otto Rank (standing, far left), and Hanns Sachs (seated, far right)