These two papers were presented for the first time in Freud's Society in 1911. For the background of these two articles, see Hoffman's biography of Adler, Chapter 5, especially pp. 70 - 72. The hostility against Adler was growing, but Adler was seemingly unaware of this, as some of his comments reveal. Freud was not blind to the fact that Adler's theories would lead to a diminuation of the importance of the sexual theory. And that was something he was not ready to accept. There were no compromises in this issue. Adler discussed in depth his conceptions of the masculine protest, as Freud had wished. Adler did not understand that in this way Freud collected more evidence and ammunition against him. Studying these two papers, the reader is placed in the midst of history, in the auditorium of The College of Physicians in Vienna and its highly vibrating and tense atmosphere.