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Scope and Content
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Otto Fenichel papers
Creator:
Fenichel, Otto
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1613
Physical Description:
9 linear feet
(18 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1903-1953
Abstract: Otto Fenichel was born on December 2, 1897 in Vienna. He decided to become a psychoanalyst and began his training while a
medical student. He received his MD from the University of Vienna in 1921 and moved to Berlin in 1922 to complete his training
at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute. He traveled to the Soviet Union in 1929 and 1932 and in 1933 went to Oslo to undertake
the training of psychoanalysts, and did the same in Prague two years later. Fleeing the Nazis, he moved to Los Angeles in
1938. Fenichel was a Marxist, and insisted that psychology needed to be studied in a societal context; publications include
The Outline of Clinical Psychoanalysis (1934), Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique (1941) and The Psychoanalytic Theory of
Neurosis (1945). The collection consists of manuscripts, abstracts, drafts, reviews, notes, correspondence, memorabilia, and
ephemera of Fenichel, manuscripts and abstracts of other psychologists, newsletters, and papers of Hanna Fenichel. Many materials
are in German.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English and German.
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[Identification of item], Otto Fenichel papers (Collection 1613). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Randi Markowitz, 1991.
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Biography
Fenichel was born on December 2, 1897 in Vienna; MD, University of Vienna, 1921; at age 17, decided to become a psychoanalyst
and began his training while a medical student; moved to Berlin in 1922 to complete his training at the Berlin Psychoanalytic
Institute; appointed an assistant (1923) and a training analyst (1925) at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Clinic; traveled to the
Soviet Union in 1929 and 1932; in 1933 went to Oslo to undertake the training of psychoanalysts, and did the same in Prague
two years later; fleeing the Nazis, he moved to Los Angeles in 1938; Fenichel was a Marxist, and insisted that psychology
needed to be studied in a societal context; publications include The Outline of Clinical Psychoanalysis (1934), Problems of
Psychoanalytic Technique (1941) and The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (1945); he died on January 22, 1946.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of manuscripts, abstracts, drafts, reviews, notes, correspondence, memorabilia, and ephemera of Fenichel,
manuscripts and abstracts of other psychologists, newsletters, and papers of Hanna Fenichel.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Psychoanalysts -- Archives.
Fenichel, Otto--Archives.
Fenichel, Hanna