Finding Aid for the Otto Fenichel papers, 1903-1953 LSC.1613

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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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Provenance/Source of Acquisition

Gift of Randi Markowitz, 1991.

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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9942330143606533 

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

 

Series 1

box 2

The misapprehended oracle.

box 1, 15

Abstracts by Fenichel.

 

Abstracts

 

Series 2

box 2

The counter-phobic attitude.

box 2

Concerning respiratory introjection.

box 2

Concerning isolation. (First draft).

box 2

On the psychology of boredom (1).

box 2

Über Trophäe und Triumph (2 copies).

box 2 & 5

Trophy and triumph. Includes a Holograph. [Synopsis?].

box 2

Freud's psychoanalysis.

box 2, 6 & 13

Psychoanalytic method.

box 2

Ego strength and ego weakness.

box 2

On masturbation.

box 2

Kardiner, Abram.

box 2 & 13

The study of defense mechanisms and the importance of psychoanalytic technique. Includes draft and final copy.

box 2

Neurotic acting out.

box 2

[Anorexia].

box 2

[Psychoanalytic theory of neuroses]. 2 copies.

box 2 & 5

Theoretical implications of the didactic analysis. Includes draft and final copy.

box 2 & 13

Short psychotherapy. 2 copies & remarks and 2 typescripts (one with holograph corrections).

box 2

Bernfeld, Siegfried. Types of adolescence.

box 2

Bernfeld, Siegfried. Die Formen der Disziplin in Erziehungsanstalten.

box 2 & 14

Über die Psychoanalyse als Keim einer zukünftigen dialektisch-materialistischen Psychologie. Various copies including drafts, typescripts and photocopies.

box 2

Der Trieb, sich zu bereichern.

box 2

Zur Kritik des Todestriebes.

box 2 & 5

Zu Reichs Buch Massenpsychologie des Faschismus. Various copies.

box 2 & 10

Abstracts.

box 2

Duplicates of papers read in English.

box 2

Essays on the theory of sex discussion outline by Fenichel.

box 3, 4, 7 & 8

Hanna Fenichel papers.

box 4

Notebook dated December 2, 1920.

box 4

Car insurance policy, 1939.

box 4

Anmeldebuch for Fenichel from the University of Berlin, 1920.

box 4

Poetry notebook, 1938-1945.

box 4

Memorabilia and ephemera.

box 5

Letters to Fenichel, 1945-1946.

box 5

175 topics of discussion about Freud's Three contributions to the theory of sex.

box 5

Psychoanalyse und Gesellschaftswissenschaften.

box 5

[Synopsis for a play].

box 5

Edith Reni. Gegen den Strom.

box 5

Two brief clinical contributions.

box 5

Concerning the anxiety of the dead.

box 5

From the terminal phase of an analysis.

box 5

Introjection and castration complex.

box 5

Identification.

box 5

Concerning unconscious communication.

box 5

The economic function of screen memories.

box 5

Examples of dream analysis.

box 5

On organ libidinization accompanying the defense against drives.

box 5

The long nose.

box 5

A dream analysis.

box 5

Concerning the theory of psychoanalytic technique.

box 5

Concerning defense against anxiety, particularly by libidinization.

box 5

The analysis of a name-substitution after 20 years.

box 5

On the compulsive doubt about death-news.

box 5

Concerning the critique of the death instinct.

box 5

A contribution to the psychology of jealousy.

box 5

The economics of pseudologia phantastica.

box 5

The black cook.

box 5

Early stages of ego development.

box 5

Other psychiatrist's manuscripts.

box 6 & 10

Lists.

box 6

On Reich's mass psychology, 1933.

box 6

Los Angeles seminar / Int. Association, 1939-1940.

box 6

Letters to Fenichel, December-January 1945-46.

Abstract: About his books, plus reviews and related book material.
box 6

Certificates for Fenichel from the K. K. Akademisches Gymnasium in Wien.

box 6

Diskussionsbemerkungen - Revision der analytischen Pädagogik.

box 6 & 10

Über kindliche Sexualitat.

box 6

Diskussionsbemerkungen - Formen der Abwehr und der Ichreaktionen in der analyse.

box 6

Gegenübertragung.

box 6

Bartlett, Francis H. The limitations of Freud, 1940.

box 6

Psc glossary

box 6

Problems of teaching psychoanalysis.

box 6

Study group contract & papers relating to immigration to the United States of Fenichel's family.

box 6

American Psychoanalytic Association.

box 6

California Psychoanalytic Society.

box 6 & 9

Replik auf Kaisers Antikritik über Der trotzhafte Charakter und Bemerkungen zu zeiner Arbeit Probleme der Technik.

box 6 & 9

Bemerkungen zu Kaisers Der trotzhafte Charakter.

box 6

American/California psychoanalytic society.

box 6

Esoterik.

box 6

Zur Angst vor der Toten.

box 6

Psychoanalytic society.

box 6

Fortschritte der Psychoanalyse, 1930-1936.

box 6

Psychoanalytische Einfälle zu Engels Deutscher Bauernkrieg. 2 copies.

box 6 & 13

Zu den Problemen der Technik. Various copies.

box 6

Fromm, Erich: Autorität und Familie. Sozialpsychologischer Teil.

box 6 & 13

Gedanken zu Freuds Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion (Nur für den Hausgebrauch).

box 6

R. Osborn: Marx and Freud, eine dialektische Studie.

box 6

Zur wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Stellung Freuds.

box 6

Abschrift. Memorandum über die Deutsche Psychoanalytische Gesellschaft e. V. und das Berliner Psychoanalytische Institut.

box 6

Correspondence with Dr. Walter C. Langer, 1941.

box 6 & 12

Poetry, 1918-1943.

box 6

Prague, 1936-1938.

box 6

Various lists, certificates and ephemera.

box 9

Reviews by Fenichel and others of books and articles.

box 9

Die andere Liste.

box 9

Reviews of articles by authors, D, F-G & F-L.

box 9

Über Angstabwehr, insbesondere durch Libidinisierung.

box 9

Zur Theorie der psychoanalytischen Technik.

box 9

Die Wirksamkeit der psychoanalytischen Therapie. 2 copies.

box 9

Portion of the Psychoanalytic theory of Neurosis.

box 10

Fenichel's Austrian passport, valid 1933-1938.

box 10

Legal documents and correspondence concerning Fenichel family immigration to the U.S.

box 10

Fenichel's school report book for 1903-1907.

box 10

Patient notes; lecture notes.

box 10

Vor dem sexualakt....

box 10

Eigene Aufzeichnungen der Analysandin vor Wiederaufnahme der Analyse.

box 10

Beitrag zur Psychologie der Eifersucht.

box 10

Weiteres zur praeoedipalen Phase der Mädchen.

box 10

Zur Ökonomik der Pseudologia Phantastica.

box 10

Zur Psychologie der Langeweile.

box 10

Schautrieb und Identifizierung.

box 10

Two dream analyses. 2 copies.

box 10

Analyse einer Namensverwechslung nach zwanzig Jahren.

box 10

Eine Traumanalyse.

box 11, box 12

Correspondence: Fenichel to others, , A-Z. 1943

box 11, box 12

Correspondence: Fenichel to others, , A-Z. 1944

box 11, box 12

Correspondence: Fenichel to others, , A-Z. 1945

box 12, box 13

Probleme der Technik. Kurs in Wien bis Dezember 1936.

box 12

Newspaper clippings and taylor's bill.

box 12

Correspondence: Fenichel to Giesl Stein, 1938-1945.

box 12

Correspondence: Fenichel to others, 1936 & 1941-1942.

box 12

Correspondence: Fenichel to Walter Langer, 1941.

box 12

Envelope containing various certificates.

box 12

Internship / Citizenship.

box 12

Letter from F. Kramer, ; Letter from Edith, 1936 n.d.

box 12

Address book.

box 12

Map of part of eastern Austria.

box 12

Envelope containing unidentified certificates.

box 13

Unidentified part of a typescript.

box 13

Ich begnüge mich wegen der Kürze der Zeit mit einem kurzen Beispiel.

box 13

The importance of the study of defense mechanisms for psychoanalytic technique.

box 13

On stage acting. 3 typescript copies (one with holograph corrections).

box 13

Schultz-Hencke

box 13

Untitled manuscript.

box 13

Allgemeine Neurosenlehre.

box 13

Probleme der Technik. Hollandische psychoanalytische Vereinigung.

box 13

Some remarks on Freud's place in the history of science, 1946

box 13

The clinical aspect of the need for punishment.

box 13

Trauma der Geburt. Rank.

box 13

Part of Freud's psychoanalysis

box 13

Freud's psychoanalysis. English and German.

General Physical Description note: 2 copies each.
box 13

Autorität und Familie sozialpsychologischer Teil.

box 13

Freud, die endliche und unendliche Analyse.

box 13

Freud, die endliche und unendliche Analyse. (Nur für den Hausgebrauch).

box 13

A note on the phallic significance of the tongue and of speech.

box 13

Über libidinöse Typen.

box 13

Flugel. Some unconscious factors in the international language movement with special reference to Esperanto.

box 13

Freud, Anna. Das Ich und die Abwehrmechanismen.

box 13

Psychoanalyse der Politik.

box 13

Unidentified typescript with holograph corrections.

box 13

Remarks about the common phobias. Various copies including a holograph, typescripts and typescripts with holograph corrections.

box 13

Sleep disturbances.

box 13, box 14

Unidentified manuscripts.

box 13

Marital situation as resistance.

box 13

Neurotic disturbances of sleep. Discussion.

box 13

Angstabwehr.

box 13

Zur Ps-A der Lüge.

box 13

Regression to childhood. Typescript. Pages 5-7 and 18-22 only.

box 13

Methode.

box 13

Homosexuality.

box 13

I am very glad to have the opportunity.....

box 14

Rundbriefe. Fragments. 5 folders.

box 14

Correspondence. Fenichel to Edith Ujvari, 1939-1941.

box 14

Contribution to the discussion in Chicago, May 3, 1942.

box 14

Various unidentified typescript pages.

box 14

Part of unidentified typescript.

box 14

Correspondence. Fenichel to Balint, May 30, 1935.

box 14

Unidentified typescript. Missing page 1.

box 14

Norsk - Dansk psykoanalytisk forening.

box 14

Notes. Susan F. Alexander.

box 14

Über Erziehungsmittel.

box 14

Theorie Erziehungsmittel.

box 14

Gymnastik. , vol.1, no.5/6. June 1926

box 14

Psychoanalytische betrachtungen zur Wirkungsweise der Gymnastik.

box 14

Gymnastik. Manuscript.

box 14

The means of education. Notes, drafts, and drafts with corrections.

box 14

Various unidentified manuscript and typescript pages.

box 14

Farrow, E. Pickworth. A method of self-analysis. Abstract.

box 14

Federn-Meng. Das psychoanalytische Volksbuch. Abstract.

box 14

Feigenbaum, Dorian. A case of hysterical depression. Mechanisms of identification and castration. Abstract.

box 14

Bewusstseinsfremdes Erinnerungsmaterial in Traume.

box 14

Bemerkungen zu einigen neüren psychiatrischen libeike, die du Psychoanalyse betreffen.

box 14

Chadwick, Mary. A case of kleptomania in a girl of ten years. Abstract.

box 14

Cohn, Max. Grenzen und Mystizismus in der Psychoanalyse. Abstract.

box 14

Abraham, Karl. Versuch einer Entwicklungsgeschichte der libido auf grund der Psychoanalyse seelischer Störungen. Abstract.

box 14

Glover, Edward. Notes on oral character formation. Abstract.

box 14

Glover, Edward. A technical form of resistance. Abstract.

box 14

Glover, Edward. The neurotic character. Abstract.

box 14

Glover, James. Notes on an unusual form of perversion. Abstract.

box 14

Lazar, Erwin. Medizinische grundlagen der Kulpädogogik. Abstract.

box 14

Levine, Israel. Das Unbewurßte. Abstract.

box 14

Low, Barbara. The cinema in education. Abstract.

box 14

Balint, Michael. Psychoanalyse und klinische Medizin. Abstract.

box 14

Bernfeld, Siegfried. Einige spekulative Bemerkungen über die psychologische Bewertung kleptothischer prozeße. Abstract.

box 14

Die psychischen heilmittel

box 14

Bryan, Douglas. Speech and castration: two unusual analytic hours. Abstract.

box 14

Burrow, Trigant. Psychoanalytic improvisations and the personal equation. Abstract.

box 14

Burrow, Trigant. Our mass neurosis. Abstract.

box 14

Wittels, Fritz. Die Technik der Psychoanalyse. Abstract.

box 14

Schakel, Julius. Enticklung der Wissenschaft vom Leben. Abstract.

box 14

Schmitt, T.L. Iten und Charakter. Abstract.

box 14

Schroeder, Theodore. The psycho-analytic method of observation. Abstract.

box 14

Simmel, Ernst. Grundsätzliches zum rample gegen. Abstract.

box 14

Symons, N.J. A note on the formation of symbols. Abstract.

box 14

Der begriff Trauma in der beatizen psychoanalyticher neurosenlehre.

box 14

Penrose, L.J. Some psycho-analytical notes on negation.

box 14 & 18

Psychoanalytic remarks on Fromm's Escape from freedom.

box 14

Rado Sandor: The psychoanalysis of pharmacothymia.

box 14

Reich, Wilhelm. Der psychogene tic als onanieaquivalent. Abstract.

box 14

Röllenbleck, Ewald. Gymnastik und Psychoanalyse. Abstract.

box 14

Röllenbleck, Ewald. Die Bedeutung der psychoanalyse für die Erziehung. Abstract.

box 14

Der erste internationale Kongreß für Sexualforschung.

box 14

Reich, Wilhelm: Der triebhafte Charakter eine psychoanalytische Studie sur Pathologie des ich.

box 14

Zeitschrift für psychoanalytische Pädagogik.

box 14

Kritik der Zeitschrift für psychoanalytische Pädagogik II.

box 14

Paul Schilder: Das Unbewußte.

box 14

Untitled play by Harry Sobotka, 1904.

box 16

Rundbriefe: 11. February 12, 1935.

General Physical Description note: 2 copies (one has a photocopy of page 1).
box 16

Rundbriefe: 12.

General Physical Description note: 3 copies (one is a photocopy).
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Rundbriefe: 13. April 4, 1935.

General Physical Description note: 2 copies (one is a photocopy).
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Rundbriefe: 14. April 26, 1935.

General Physical Description note: 2 copies (one is a photocopy).
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Rundbriefe: 15. June 17, 1935.

General Physical Description note: 2 copies (one is a photocopy).
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Rundbriefe: 16. June 30, 1935.

General Physical Description note: 2 copies (one is a photocopy).
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Rundbriefe: 17. August 30, 1935.

General Physical Description note: 2 copies (one is a photocopy).
box 16

Rundbriefe: 18. (#22?). n.d.

box 16

Rundbriefe: 19. October 17, 1935.

General Physical Description note: 2 copies (one is a photocopy).
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Rundbriefe: 20. September 23, 1935.

General Physical Description note: 2 copies (one is a photocopy).
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Rundbriefe: 21. December 31, 1935.

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Rundbriefe: 22. January 27, 1936.

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Rundbriefe: 23-25, 27, 36 & 38. n.d.

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Rundbriefe: 26. May 18, 1936.

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Rundbriefe: 28. July 7, 1936.

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Rundbriefe: 32 [?]. 2 copies. n.d.

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Rundbriefe: 33. February 17, 1937.

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Rundbriefe: 35. April 28, 1937.

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Rundbriefe: 37. June 29, 1937.

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Rundbriefe: 39. September 11, 1937.

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Rundbriefe: 40. October 23, 1937.

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Rundbriefe: 41, 45, 51 & 60. n.d.

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Rundbriefe: 42. January 7, 1938.

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Rundbriefe: 43. February 14, 1938.

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Rundbriefe: 44. March 14, 1938.

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Rundbriefe: 46. April 7, 1938.

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Rundbriefe: 47. April 20, 1938.

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Rundbriefe: 48. June 25, 1938.

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Rundbriefe: 49. August 3, 1938.

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Rundbriefe: 50. September 10, 1938.

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Rundbriefe: 52. November 18, 1938.

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Rundbriefe: 53. December 30, 1938.

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Rundbriefe: 54. February 6, 1939.

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Rundbriefe: 55. March 12, 1939.

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Rundbriefe: 56. April 16, 1939.

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Rundbriefe: 57. May 3, 1939.

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Rundbriefe: 58. June 7, 1939.

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Rundbriefe: 58. First 12 1/2 pages. June 7, 1939.

General Physical Description note: 2 copies.
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Rundbriefe: 59. July 15, 1939.

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Rundbriefe: 66. April 15, 1940.

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Rundbriefe: 68. July 1940.

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Rundbriefe: 70. October 9, 1940.

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Rundbriefe: 71. October 15, 1940.

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Rundbriefe: 73. Photocopy. January 23, 1941.

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Rundbriefe: 74. Photocopy. March 1, 1941.

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Rundbriefe: 75. Photocopy. March 1, 1941.

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Rundbriefe: 76. Photocopy. April 27, 1941.

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Rundbriefe: 77. June 10, 1941.

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Rundbriefe: 96. Photocopy. March 15, 1943.

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Rundbriefe: 97. March 17, 1943.

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Rundbriefe: 98. May 7, 1943.

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Rundbriefe: 111. September 20, 1944.

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Rundbriefe: No #.

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Psychoanalysis of anti-Semitism.

General Physical Description note: 7 drafts and copies.
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Psychoanalysis of neuroses.

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Psychoanalytic theory of neuroses, two evenings.

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Psychoanalysis of the character.

box 18

The ego and the affects.

General Physical Description note: 6 copies.
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Die symbolische Gleichung; Mädchen = phallus.

box 18

The scopophilic instinct and identification.

box 18

Freud translation committee.