Scope and Content Note
The Miscellaneous Papers in the Sigmund Freud Collection span the years 1866-1983, with the bulk of material dating from 1908 to 1957. The papers are in German, English, and French and contain writings, organizational records, biographical data, correspondence, photograph, and printed matter documenting many aspects of the psychoanalytic movement. The material is organized in two series: Miscellany and Microfilm.
The Miscellany series consists primarily of material from psychoanalytic organizations and writings by various individuals on psychoanalytic theory, the history of psychoanalysis, and the work of individual psychoanalysts. Among the psychoanalytic organizations represented are the Association des Psychanalystes de Belgique, the Deutsche Psychoanalytische Gesellschaft, and the Psychological Center, a psychoanalytic training institute founded by Otto Rank in Paris in 1934. Articles on psychoanalytic theory are by Otto Gross, René Laforgue, and Oskar Pfister. The work of Josine Müller and Lili E. Peller, among others, is explored in memorials and biographical material.
The Microfilm series features reproductions of Josef Breuer’s correspondence with family and colleagues, correspondence and drafts of writings by Paul Federn, letters received by Eduard Hitschmann from Sigmund Freud, and Emil Oberholzer’s correspondence with fellow psychoanalysts. The Freud family is represented in correspondence with Alexander and Harry Freud, Sigmund Freud’s brother and nephew. Other microfilmed material includes minutes from meetings of the Wiener Psychoanalytische Vereinigung, Josef Gicklhorn’s research on Sigmund Freud, and a scrapbook assembled on Freud by Isador H. Coriat. The Sigmund Freud Archives subsequently donated originals or facsimiles of the same material to other collections of papers within the Sigmund Freud Collection. Exceptions are Emil Oberholzer’s correspondence and Isador H. Coriat’s scrapbook which exist at the Library only on microfilm.