This article is based on a report given at the Congrès International de Psychiatric, Paris, September, 1950, under the same title. Jacques Lacan also gave a report to this Congress, see Intervention to the first World Congress of Psychiatry (Sorbonne, Paris) : 26th September 1950 : Jacques Lacan at this site  /4 Jacques Lacan (19500925)
Published
The evolution and present trends of psychoanalysis : September 1950 :Franz Alexander,
Acta Psychologica, Volume 7, 1950, Pages 126-132
Reprinted in, The Study of Personality, A BOOK OF READINGS, Compilation and Commentary by HOWARD BRAND, The University of Connecticut, JOHN WILEY & SONS, 1954
Available at www.LacanianWorksExcahnge.net  /Authors A-Z (Alexander)
About Franz Alexander
Alexander was one of the most important members of the group often referred to as “the second generation of psychoanalysts”. In 1929 Freud invited him to Vienna as his assistant, but he chose to leave for the University of Chicago where at the same time he was invited to became Professor of Psychiatry.

A Quotation from Franz Alexander

P82 Alexander, Most important in these recent developments is the awakening of a fresh, undogmatic experimental spirit, the abandoning of a trend which was inclined to consider psychoanalytic theory and therapy as a static system which should be conserved in the form in which Freud left it to his followers. This new experimental attitude is truer to the heritage from Freud than the static one. Freud himself was one of the great experimentalists of all time who, in his relentless search for truth, was never averse to changing his previous concepts and therapeutic procedures whenever advanced knowledge required.

It has not been possible to find where Sigmund Freud quotes this paper.

Citation by Jacques Lacan

– Session of Seminar XI The partial drive & its circuit  : 13th May 1964 : Jacques Lacan

(see this site  /4 Jacques Lacan (19640513), p174 of Alan Sheridan’s translation, quote :

When I read in the Psychoanalytic Quarterly an article like the one by Mr Edward Glover, entitled Freudian or Neo-Freudian*, directed entirely against the constructions of Mr Alexander, I sense a sordid smell of stuffiness, at the sight of a construction like that of Mr Alexander being counter-attacked in the name of obsolete criteria. Good Heavens, I did not hesitate to attack it myself in the most categorical way fourteen years ago, at the 1950 Congress of Psychiatry, but, it is the construction of a man of great talent and when I see at what level this construction is discussed, I can pay myself the complement that through all the misadventures that my discourse encounters, here and certainly elsewhere, one can say that this discourse provides an obstacle to the experience of analysis being served up to you in a completely cretinous way.

At this point, I will resume my discourse …

* Freudian or Neofreudian? : 1964 : Edward Glover, see this site  /5 Authors A-Z (Glover or Index of Authors’ texts)