By Dr. Melamed
Title: Correspondences from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel, 1918-1939
Predominant Dates:1920s, 1930s
ID: RG-18/RG-18
Primary Creator: Professor, Dr. Sigmund Freud, founder and the leading authority of Psychoanalysis (1918 --1939)
Extent: 2.0 Boxes
Subjects: A letter from Freud to Simmel, April 1, 1927, A letter from Freud to Simmel, February 5, 1926, A letter from Freud to Simmel, May 10, 1926, A letter from Freud to Simmel, May 10, 1927, A letter from Freud to Simmel, May 18, 1926, A letter from Freud to Simmel, October 26, 1925, Correspondence from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel, 1918 -- 1939, Documents from the NCP Archive, Dr. Ernest Simmel, Documents of Dr. Freud at the NCP-LA Archive, Dr. Eitington, colleague of Simmel and Freud, from Berlin, Dr. Eitington offered a chair to Dr. Simmel at the Berlin International Psychoanalytic Institute, Dr. Ernest Simmel, Sanitarium Schloss Tegel, Berlin, 1920s, 1931, discourse, Dr. Simmel, Schloss Tegel, prototype for a present day mental hospital, Dr. Simmel is offered a chair at Berlin International Psychoanalytic Institute, 1926, Freud's niece was being treated by aloofness by psychoanalytic circles in Berlin, Freud's remarks for Simmel's War Neuroses and Psychic Trauma, letter, February 20, 1918, Freud's thanks to the members of German Psychoanalytic Society for birthday wishes, May 10, 1926, Freud, circumstantial need for hypnosis treatment for the war neuroses, Simmel, Freud, humanness to others, a case of a little woman, his niece, Berlin, 1926s, Freud, I myself would reach for the hypnotic method under the circumstances, war neuroses, Freud, letter to Simmel from March 24, 1924, the state of heals of Freud, Freud, perception of not conceding to the opponents, in a letter to Simmel, July 1, 1927, Freud, personal conception related to Simmel of not pleasing opponents, in a letter July 1, 1927, Freud, personal discourse, untrustworthy people, in a letter to Simmel, July 1, 1927, Freud, personal discourse of not making concession without a good cause, in a letter to Simmel, 1927, Freud, personal discourse of representing one's course in a neutral and condescending manner, Freud, perspective to further accomplishments, to Simmel, May 10, 1927, Freud, positive reflection on the Simmel's report from the Convention, May 10, 1927, Freud, Psychoanalysis is no manner to be filmed, October 1926, Freud, reference to Dr. Eitington with regard to Dr. Simmel, 1926, Freud, reference to Dr. Karl Abraham with regard to Dr. Simmel, 1926, Freud, request not celebrate his subsequent birthdays until the 75th, to Simmel, May 10, 1927, Freud, some of your formulations of hypnotic technique did not seem tenable, Simmels, Freud, thanks for birthday wishes to Ernest Simmel, May 10, 1927, Freud, thanks for birthday wishes to the colleagues of Ernest Simmel, Freud, thank you letter to Simmel for his birthday wishes, May 10, 1926, Freud, wishes of success and luck to Simmel for his work and administration of Tegel, Freud about the opening of Sanitarium Schloss Tegel by Simmel in 1927, Freud asks Simmel for friendly support of a little woman, his niece in Berlin, Freud did not attend the 9th International Psychoanalytic Congress, September 1925, Freud discovered the psychoanalytic motivating forces only after conceded hypnosis, to Simmel, Freud esteems high the Simmel talk and script, in the letter, Freud expresses his support of Dr. Simmel for his new academic tasks, 1926, Freud in high esteem of Dr. Simmel, chair in Berlin International Psychoanalytic Institute, 1926, Freud in Semmering, Austria, Villa Schuler, August, September 1926, Freud intercedes on behalf to his niece in Berlin with Simmel, May 18, 1926, Freud invites Simmel to visit him at Semmering, Villa Schuler, a resort in the Alps, July 1926, Freud proposed a preliminary provision of meeting with Simmel at the Congress in Salzburg April 1924, Freud refers to an article of Simmel as a valiant, in a letter, July 1, 1927, Freud refuses to see an obsessional patient referred by Simmel, she is for Tegel, Freud relates to his unfamiliarity with schizophrenia, in a letter to Simmel, July 1, 1927, Freud to Simmel, Freud's state of health, his reduced working schedule, 1924, Freud to Simmel, he is no longer the same man you wanted to turn, Freud to Simmel about the female patient who should be treated at a mental hospital in Tegel, Freud was not certain about his participation in the Congress in Salzburg, state of health, 1924, Hypnosis causes underestimation of resistance upon which the whole theory of neuroses is built, In Freud's opinion, the Simmel's therapy is rather a cathartic than psychoanalytic, War Neuroses, In Freud's opinion there was a little influence of psychoanalysis since the concept of narcissism, It is a lack of relationship between the motion pictures and psychoanalysis, Freud, Letters and postcards from Freud to Simmel, 1918 -- 1939, Repressed complex attempts to engulf consciousness, opposed by resistance, Freud to Simmel, Sigmund Freud, Theory of Psychoanalysis, Simmel, request to meet with Freud at the 8th International Psychoanalytic Congress, 1924, The 8th International Psychoanalytic Congress in Salzburg, April 1924, The 9th International Psychoanalytic Congress in Bad Homburg, April 1925
A Collection of letters and postcard written by Professor, Dr. Sigmund Freud in response to the correspondences from Dr. Ernst Simmel. From 1918 to 1934, both correspondents sent mail from Vienna (Dr. Freud) to Berlin (Dr. Simmel). Since Dr. Ernst Simmel emigration to Los Angeles, Dr. Freud addressed his correspondences to the Simmel's address in Los Angeles. From mid-1938, after Dr. Freud's emigration to England, he sent his mail from his resedence in England to Los Angeles.
This Collection comprises letters and postcards from Professor, Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel. Largely these short narratives reflect Freud's responses to Dr. Simmel's inquiries, reports, requests for advice and birthday and holiday greetings.
The Freud's correspondence are remarcable in his sincere parrying and strenuous effort to be of support to his younger colleague Dr. Simmel.
This Collection of correspondences from Professor, Dr. Freud comprises 31 items of mail narrated by the sender largely from Vienna in 1918 -- 1938 and several letters sent from England in 1938, 1939.
The letter written by Freud on February 20, 1918, is largely and exquisite example of prolific discourse in the Theory of Psychoanalysis. Although there have been a conspicuous of the pithy deflections in the Simmel's work on the War Neuroses, Freud averted a divergence and expounded the positive conception in the given work. Being cognizant in the given discourse, Freud with gratification recapitulated the elements of coherent Psychoanalytic etiology. In Freud's view, Simmel's presuppositions were germane to the contemporaneous state of Psychoanalysis. On the other occasion, Freud underlined his support of the young colleague's works.
Freud's correspondences dated by the 1920s still reflect his active, if his state of health permit, tutelage over the growing ramification of psychoanalytic science and the corresponding to the scholarship discourses.
Freud's letters to Simmel demonstrate conscientious yearnings to be of support, render advice and overall venerate the works and activity of his young colleague Dr. Ernst Simmel.
No condescension or aloofness could be found in Freud's letters to Simmel.
Freud consistently position himself in tantamount terms with Simmel.
Freud's letters to Simmel evinced no intents of the sender to expect acquiescent responses, on the contrary they are always written in conciliatory tone, his correspondences to the colleagues are innately intransigent in terms of collegial respect, being imbued by academic emanation.
The given correspondences evoke exhilarating feeling of lucidity.
In 1918 a mutual correspondence between Sigmund Freud and Ernst Simmel begins. It asted until 1939.
There are unwavering evidences in Freud's letters that Simmel always recourse for advice and guidance to Freud.
We do not have Simmel's correspondences to Freud. However, it is evident from the Freud's letters that Simmel candidly followed his suggestions.
In the aftermath of the War, Simmel began a systematic studies of Psychoanalysis. He was one of the founder of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute and he became instrumental in the introduction of supervised analysis into the training program, a requirement that was truly an innovation for the time.
Working always within the framework of classical analysis, Simmel had avowed courage to re-examine concepts in various areas of the growing science and his original contribution received careful consideration from Freud.
Vicissitudes and the farther discourse in Psychoanalytic Theory. A new psychoanalytic narrative by Sigmund Freud,
Freud’s mature instinct theory is in many ways a metaphysical construct, comparable to Bergson’s élan vital or Schopenhauer’s Will. Emboldened by its formulation, Freud launched a series of audacious studies that took him well beyond his clinician’s consulting room. These he had already commenced with investigations of Leonardo da Vinci (1910) and the novel Gradiva by Wilhelm Jensen (1907). Here Freud attempted to psychoanalyze works of art as symbolic expressions of their creator’s psychodynamics.
The fundamental premise that permitted Freud to examine cultural phenomena was called sublimation in the Three Essays. The appreciation or creation of ideal beauty, Freud contended, is rooted in primitive sexual urges that are transfigured in culturally elevating ways. Unlike repression, which produces only neurotic symptoms whose meaning is unknown even to the sufferer, sublimation is a conflict-free resolution of repression, which leads to intersubjectively available cultural works. Although potentially reductive in its implications, the psychoanalytic interpretation of culture can be justly called one of the most powerful “hermeneutics of suspicion,” to borrow the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur’s phrase, because it debunks idealist notions of high culture as the alleged transcendence of baser concerns.
Freud extended the scope of his theories to include anthropological and social psychological speculation as well in Totem und Tabu (1913; Totem and Taboo). Drawing on Sir James Frazer’s explorations of the Australian Aborigines, he interpreted the mixture of fear and reverence for the totemic animal in terms of the child’s attitude toward the parent of the same sex. The Aborigines’ insistence on exogamy was a complicated defense against the strong incestuous desires felt by the child for the parent of the opposite sex. Their religion was thus a phylogenetic anticipation of the ontogenetic Oedipal drama played out in modern man’s psychic development. But whereas the latter was purely an intrapsychic phenomenon based on fantasies and fears, the former, Freud boldly suggested, was based on actual historical events. Freud speculated that the rebellion of sons against dominating fathers for control over women had culminated in actual parricide. Ultimately producing remorse, this violent act led to atonement through incest taboos and the prohibitions against harming the father-substitute, the totemic object or animal. When the fraternal clan replaced the patriarchal horde, true society emerged. For renunciation of individual aspirations to replace the slain father and a shared sense of guilt in the primal crime led to a contractual agreement to end internecine struggle and band together instead. The totemic ancestor then could evolve into the more impersonal God of the great religions.
A subsequent effort to explain social solidarity, Massenpsychologie und Ich-analyse (1921; Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego), drew on the antidemocratic crowd psychologists of the late 19th century, most notably Gustave Le Bon. Here the disillusionment with liberal, rational politics that some have seen as the seedbed of much of Freud’s work was at its most explicit (the only competitor being the debunking psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson he wrote jointly with William Bullitt in 1930, which was not published until 1967). All mass phenomena, Freud suggested, are characterized by intensely regressive emotional ties stripping individuals of their self-control and independence. Rejecting possible alternative explanations such as hypnotic suggestion or imitation and unwilling to follow Jung in postulating a group mind, Freud emphasized instead individual libidinal ties to the group’s leader. Group formation is like regression to a primal horde with the leader as the original father. Drawing on the army and the Roman Catholic Church as his examples, Freud never seriously considered less authoritarian modes of collective behavior.
Composition of the Collection,
RG-18.01, Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr.Simmel, with English translation, February 20, 1918
RG-18.02, Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel with English translation, March 24, 1924
RG-18.03, Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel with English translation, October 26, 1925
RG-18.04, Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel with English translation, May 10, 1926
RG-18.05, Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel with English translation, July 23, 1926
RG-18.06. Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel with English translation, April 1, 1927
RG-18.07, Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel, English translation, May 18, 1926
RG-18.08, Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel with English translation, February 5, 1926
RG-18.09, Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel with English translation, May 10, 1926
RG-18.10, Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel with English translation, May 10, 1927
RG-18.11, Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr.Simmel in German, May 16, 1926
RG-18.12, Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel with English translation, July 1, 1927
RG-18.13, Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel, with English translation, July 2, 1928
RG-18.14, Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr.Simmel with English translation, July 18, 1928
RG-18.15, Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel with English translation, August 17, 1928
RG-18.16, Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel with English translation, November 11, 1918
RG-18.17, Letter from Dr. Fredu to Dr. Simmel with English translation, December 25, 1928
RG-18.18, Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel with English translation, February 22, 1929
RG-18.19, Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel with English translation, May 12, 1929
RG-18.20, Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel, September 5, 1929, Marie Bonaparte mentioned
RG-18.21, Postcard from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel with English translation, Ausgust 8, 1930
RG-18.22, Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel with English translation, January 1, 1931
RG-18.23, Thank you card from Freud to Simmel with regard to his birthday, May 1931
RG-18.24, Letter from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel with English translation, December 26, 1931
RG-18.25, A thank you card from Freud with regard to Simmel's New Year wishes, January 6, 1934
RG-18.26, Letter from Freud to Simmel, , a bitter joy from parting with Simmel , November 28, 1935
RG-18.27, A note from Freud to Simmel, the same friends in Tegel and Los Angeles January 13, 1935
RG-18.28, Thank you card from Freud to Simmel, for his 80th birthday, May 1936
RG-18.29, From Freud to Simmel, The New Year wishes, postcard, January 1, 1938
RG-18.30. Letter from Freud to Simmel, Englad, with English translation, June 26, 1938
RG-18.31, Letter from Frued to Simmel with English translation, England, January 9, 1939
Sigmund Freud, (born May 6, 1856, Freiberg, Moravia, Austrian Empire [now Příbor, Czech Republic]—died September 23, 1939, London, England), Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis.
Freud may justly be called the most influential intellectual legislator of his age. His creation of psychoanalysis was at once a theory of the human psyche, a therapy for the relief of its ills, and an optic for the interpretation of culture and society. Despite repeated criticisms, attempted refutations, and qualifications of Freud’s work, its spell remained powerful well after his death and in fields far removed from psychology as it is narrowly defined. If, as the American sociologist Philip Rieff once contended, “psychological man” replaced such earlier notions as political, religious, or economic man as the 20th century’s dominant self-image, it is in no small measure due to the power of Freud’s vision and the seeming inexhaustibility of the intellectual legacy he left behind.
A letter from Freud to Simmel, April 1, 1927
A letter from Freud to Simmel, February 5, 1926
A letter from Freud to Simmel, May 10, 1926
A letter from Freud to Simmel, May 10, 1927
A letter from Freud to Simmel, May 18, 1926
A letter from Freud to Simmel, October 26, 1925
Correspondence from Dr. Freud to Dr. Simmel, 1918 -- 1939
Documents from the NCP Archive, Dr. Ernest Simmel
Documents of Dr. Freud at the NCP-LA Archive
Dr. Eitington, colleague of Simmel and Freud, from Berlin
Dr. Eitington offered a chair to Dr. Simmel at the Berlin International Psychoanalytic Institute
Dr. Ernest Simmel, Sanitarium Schloss Tegel, Berlin, 1920s, 1931, discourse
Dr. Simmel, Schloss Tegel, prototype for a present day mental hospital
Dr. Simmel is offered a chair at Berlin International Psychoanalytic Institute, 1926
Freud's niece was being treated by aloofness by psychoanalytic circles in Berlin
Freud's remarks for Simmel's War Neuroses and Psychic Trauma, letter, February 20, 1918
Freud's thanks to the members of German Psychoanalytic Society for birthday wishes, May 10, 1926
Freud, circumstantial need for hypnosis treatment for the war neuroses, Simmel
Freud, humanness to others, a case of a little woman, his niece, Berlin, 1926s
Freud, I myself would reach for the hypnotic method under the circumstances, war neuroses
Freud, letter to Simmel from March 24, 1924, the state of heals of Freud
Freud, perception of not conceding to the opponents, in a letter to Simmel, July 1, 1927
Freud, personal conception related to Simmel of not pleasing opponents, in a letter July 1, 1927
Freud, personal discourse, untrustworthy people, in a letter to Simmel, July 1, 1927
Freud, personal discourse of not making concession without a good cause, in a letter to Simmel, 1927
Freud, personal discourse of representing one's course in a neutral and condescending manner
Freud, perspective to further accomplishments, to Simmel, May 10, 1927
Freud, positive reflection on the Simmel's report from the Convention, May 10, 1927
Freud, Psychoanalysis is no manner to be filmed, October 1926
Freud, reference to Dr. Eitington with regard to Dr. Simmel, 1926
Freud, reference to Dr. Karl Abraham with regard to Dr. Simmel, 1926
Freud, request not celebrate his subsequent birthdays until the 75th, to Simmel, May 10, 1927
Freud, some of your formulations of hypnotic technique did not seem tenable, Simmels
Freud, thanks for birthday wishes to Ernest Simmel, May 10, 1927
Freud, thanks for birthday wishes to the colleagues of Ernest Simmel
Freud, thank you letter to Simmel for his birthday wishes, May 10, 1926
Freud, wishes of success and luck to Simmel for his work and administration of Tegel
Freud about the opening of Sanitarium Schloss Tegel by Simmel in 1927
Freud asks Simmel for friendly support of a little woman, his niece in Berlin
Freud did not attend the 9th International Psychoanalytic Congress, September 1925
Freud discovered the psychoanalytic motivating forces only after conceded hypnosis, to Simmel
Freud esteems high the Simmel talk and script, in the letter
Freud expresses his support of Dr. Simmel for his new academic tasks, 1926
Freud in high esteem of Dr. Simmel, chair in Berlin International Psychoanalytic Institute, 1926
Freud in Semmering, Austria, Villa Schuler, August, September 1926
Freud intercedes on behalf to his niece in Berlin with Simmel, May 18, 1926
Freud invites Simmel to visit him at Semmering, Villa Schuler, a resort in the Alps, July 1926
Freud proposed a preliminary provision of meeting with Simmel at the Congress in Salzburg April 1924
Freud refers to an article of Simmel as a valiant, in a letter, July 1, 1927
Freud refuses to see an obsessional patient referred by Simmel, she is for Tegel
Freud relates to his unfamiliarity with schizophrenia, in a letter to Simmel, July 1, 1927
Freud to Simmel, Freud's state of health, his reduced working schedule, 1924
Freud to Simmel, he is no longer the same man you wanted to turn
Freud to Simmel about the female patient who should be treated at a mental hospital in Tegel
Freud was not certain about his participation in the Congress in Salzburg, state of health, 1924
Hypnosis causes underestimation of resistance upon which the whole theory of neuroses is built
In Freud's opinion, the Simmel's therapy is rather a cathartic than psychoanalytic, War Neuroses
In Freud's opinion there was a little influence of psychoanalysis since the concept of narcissism
It is a lack of relationship between the motion pictures and psychoanalysis, Freud
Letters and postcards from Freud to Simmel, 1918 -- 1939
Repressed complex attempts to engulf consciousness, opposed by resistance, Freud to Simmel
Sigmund Freud, Theory of Psychoanalysis
Simmel, request to meet with Freud at the 8th International Psychoanalytic Congress, 1924
The 8th International Psychoanalytic Congress in Salzburg, April 1924
The 9th International Psychoanalytic Congress in Bad Homburg, April 1925
