The Association seeks to provide as complete an understanding of psychoanalysis and its founder, including (1) the history of the discovery of psychoanalysis,;(2) the biography of Freud, his relatives, his disciples and psychoanalysts who have succeeded; (3) the history of the psychoanalytic movement since its origin, including international developments through its major divisions or branches; (4) the place of psychoanalysis in the history of science and ideas of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and (5) the relationship of psychoanalysis with the general history and the political, socio-economic and cultural conditions of the time.