&w=3840&q=75)
&w=3840&q=75)
&w=3840&q=75)
&w=3840&q=75)
&w=3840&q=75)
&w=3840&q=75)
169
FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1939).
The item was sold for 6 500 €
Fees include commission and taxes.
FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1939).
L.D.S. addressed to his nephew Edward Bernays (1891-1995), Austrian-American publicist and lobbyist. Semmering, Villa Schüler, July 22, 1925. 2 pp. large in-4. Printed letterhead "Prof. Dr. Freud" with his Viennese address. In German. Small cracks at the folds, not missing.
Very interesting letter from Freud dedicated to the advancement of psychoanalysis in America. Freud counts on his nephew to help him introduce this discipline in the U.S.A. :
"[...] You have informed me that you intend to initiate money collections for a scientific fund for the advancement of psychoanalysis in America. In your letter you say that your countrymen are accustomed to providing funds for idealistic purposes, noting that perhaps not everything so supported can claim a cultural significance similar to that of psychoanalysis. I welcome your intention with great satisfaction. You are doing a worthy job. If you think it will help the cause, I agree to take over the administration of this fund. But I do not want to assume responsibility for it alone, but propose that you form a committee of trusted people at my side, half American, half European, to be selected by the two of us and to leave the expertise to us. In my opinion, such a fund would have three main missions:
1.) The maintenance and expansion of existing psychoanalytic institutions. There are two of them, in Berlin and in Vienna. They are both teaching and treatment institutes, and they do a great job in training doctors theoretically and practically in psychoanalysis, and also in making analytical therapy accessible to the poorer classes. I hope that a deeper knowledge of the achievements of these institutions will persuade Americans to do something similar in their country and thus put an end to the abuses of psychoanalysis that are so common.
2.) The preservation of the "International Psychoanalytic Publishing House," which has been publishing our journals for more than a decade and has published many valuable books. From the beginning, this publisher has renounced profit and had only the culture of psychoanalytic literature in mind. Its preservation is simply a vital matter for our science.
3.) To carry out publicity with serious and dignified (decent) means, which aims at making the nature and benefits of psychoanalysis known to wider circles.
4.) All of these goals are well worth winning the sympathy of America's educated and liberal thinkers. I would also like to point out that such a psychoanalytic fund already existed. In the early years of the war it was recruited by one of my Hungarian associates, Dr. Anton von Freund, donated, but was prematurely exhausted as a result of the devaluation of the Austro-Hungarian currency [...]."
Transcript in German on request.
L.D.S. addressed to his nephew Edward Bernays (1891-1995), Austrian-American publicist and lobbyist. Semmering, Villa Schüler, July 22, 1925. 2 pp. large in-4. Printed letterhead "Prof. Dr. Freud" with his Viennese address. In German. Small cracks at the folds, not missing.
Very interesting letter from Freud dedicated to the advancement of psychoanalysis in America. Freud counts on his nephew to help him introduce this discipline in the U.S.A. :
"[...] You have informed me that you intend to initiate money collections for a scientific fund for the advancement of psychoanalysis in America. In your letter you say that your countrymen are accustomed to providing funds for idealistic purposes, noting that perhaps not everything so supported can claim a cultural significance similar to that of psychoanalysis. I welcome your intention with great satisfaction. You are doing a worthy job. If you think it will help the cause, I agree to take over the administration of this fund. But I do not want to assume responsibility for it alone, but propose that you form a committee of trusted people at my side, half American, half European, to be selected by the two of us and to leave the expertise to us. In my opinion, such a fund would have three main missions:
1.) The maintenance and expansion of existing psychoanalytic institutions. There are two of them, in Berlin and in Vienna. They are both teaching and treatment institutes, and they do a great job in training doctors theoretically and practically in psychoanalysis, and also in making analytical therapy accessible to the poorer classes. I hope that a deeper knowledge of the achievements of these institutions will persuade Americans to do something similar in their country and thus put an end to the abuses of psychoanalysis that are so common.
2.) The preservation of the "International Psychoanalytic Publishing House," which has been publishing our journals for more than a decade and has published many valuable books. From the beginning, this publisher has renounced profit and had only the culture of psychoanalytic literature in mind. Its preservation is simply a vital matter for our science.
3.) To carry out publicity with serious and dignified (decent) means, which aims at making the nature and benefits of psychoanalysis known to wider circles.
4.) All of these goals are well worth winning the sympathy of America's educated and liberal thinkers. I would also like to point out that such a psychoanalytic fund already existed. In the early years of the war it was recruited by one of my Hungarian associates, Dr. Anton von Freund, donated, but was prematurely exhausted as a result of the devaluation of the Austro-Hungarian currency [...]."
Transcript in German on request.