Editor’s Note: Another Glorious Company

Abstract

When Sigmund Freud was asked if he was familiar with the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, he replied that he had heard of Nietzsche but deliberately avoided reading his books. He suspected that the philosopher’s ideas might be too similar to his own and could thus inhibit or deflect his process of discovery. This anecdote comes to mind whenever one of my university students (or a writer submitting an article to our journal) is criticized for missing some important, even vital, authority among the scholarly sources cited in their research paper. The author sometimes justifies this omission by insisting that their discovery is so