Siegfried Bernfeld papers, 1854-1975 (bulk 1930-1953).
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Mixed materialsLanguage: English, French, German Description: 6,000 items; 22 containers; 8.8 linear feetSubject(s): - Adams, Leslie, 1902- -- Correspondence
- Alexander, Franz, 1891- -- Correspondence
- Barrett, William G. -- Correspondence
- Bernfeld, Manfred -- Correspondence
- Feitelberg, Sergei, 1905-1967 -- Correspondence
- Fenichel, Otto -- Correspondence
- Fliess, Wilhelm, 1858-1928 -- Correspondence
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Correspondence
- Geiringer, Hilda, 1893-1973 -- Correspondence
- Gicklhorn, Josef, 1891-1957 -- Correspondence
- Goldmann, Fritz -- Correspondence
- Hoffer, Willi -- Correspondence
- Jekels, Ludwig, 1867-1954 -- Correspondence
- Jones, Ernest, 1879-1958 -- Correspondence
- Kamm, Bernard A. (Bernard August), 1899- -- Correspondence
- Kohn, Hans, 1891-1971 -- Correspondence
- Kris, Ernst, 1900-1957 -- Correspondence
- Lampl, Hans -- Correspondence
- Olden, Rudolf, 1885-1940 -- Correspondence
- Puner, Helen W. (Helen Walker), 1915- -- Correspondence
- Rank, Otto, 1884-1939 -- Correspondence
- Reik, Theodor, 1888-1969 -- Correspondence
- Sachs, Hanns, 1881-1947 -- Correspondence
- Simmel, Ernst, 1882-1947 -- Correspondence
- Spitz, René A. (René Arpad), 1887-1974 -- Correspondence
- Stern, William, 1871-1938 -- Correspondence
- Viereck, George Sylvester, 1884-1962 -- Correspondence
- Waldinger, Ernst, 1896- -- Correspondence
- Wyneken, Gustav, 1875- -- Correspondence
- San Francisco Psychoanalytic Group
- Wiener Psychoanalytische Vereinigung
- Consciousness
- Education
- Educational change
- Human behavior
- Jewish youth -- Societies and clubs
- Mathematics
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychoanalysis -- Societies, etc
- Psychoanalysis -- Standards
- Psychology
- Socialism
- Topology
- Biologists
- Psychoanalysts
Open to research.
Correspondence, writings, reports, minutes of meetings, research files, and printed matter relating to Bernfeld's career as a psychoanalyst in Europe and America and to the study of Sigmund Freud carried on by Bernfeld and his wife, Suzanne Casirer Bernfeld. Subjects include the history of psychology and of the psychoanalytic movement; standards for the training of psychoanalysts; psychoanalytic theory; cross-disciplinary studies concerning behavior, consciousness, topology, and the mathematical expression of theoretical concepts; educational reform; and socialism or Marxism. Documents Bernfeld's involvement in a movement among Jewish youth in the early twentieth century and in the Wiener Psychoanalytische Vereinigung and the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Group. Correspondents include Leslie Adams, Franz Alexander, William G. Barrett, Manfred Bernfeld, Sergei Feitelberg, Otto Fenichel, Hilda Geiringer, Josef Gicklhorn, Fritz Goldmann, Willi Hoffer, Ernest Jones, Bernard A. Kamm, Hans Kohn, Ernst Kris, Hans Lampl, Rudolf Olden, Helen W. Puner, Otto Rank, Theodor Reik, Hanns Sachs, Ernst Simmel, René A. Spitz, William Stern, Ernst Waldinger, and Gustav Wyneken.
Research material pertaining to Freud consists of correspondence, writings, biographical data, bibliographies, and other papers compiled by the Bernfelds. Freud's correspondents include Wilhelm Fliess, Ludwig Jekels, Theodor Reik, Hanns Sachs, Ernst Simmel, and George Sylvester Viereck.
Also includes drafts of writings on a variety of psychoanalytical topics by Paul Federn, Otto Fenichel, Ernest Jones, Herbert Silberer, and Gustav Wyneken.
Psychoanalyst and biologist. Student and associate of Sigmund Freud.
Collection material in English and German, with French.
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