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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm82052514
Collection material in English and German
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Paul Federn, psychoanalyst, were given to the Library of Congress by his son Ernst Federn in 1967. Additional material was received from the Sigmund Freud Archives from 1985 to 1987.
The papers of Paul Federn were arranged and described in 1975 by Michael McElderry. Additional material was incorporated into the collection in 1985-1986 by David Mathisen. In 2002, further additions were processed and part of the collection was reprocessed by Michael Spangler. The finding aid was updated in 2023 by Maria Farmer as part of a division-wide remediation project by the Inclusive Description Working Group.
Most photographs have been transferred to the Library’s Prints and Photographs Division where they are identified as part of these papers.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Paul Federn is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Paul Federn are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Paul Federn Papers, Sigmund Freud Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Paul Federn (1871-1950) span the years 1864-1975, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1895-1950. The collection includes correspondence from many early practitioners of psychoanalysis documenting the last three decades of Federn’s career. The papers are in German and English and are organized in the following series: Correspondence , Case File , Speeches and Writings , Miscellany , and Addition .
The Correspondence series is arranged in family and general groupings. Family correspondence includes letters exchanged between family members and close friends dating chiefly from the 1890s to the 1920s. Frequent correspondents include Federn’s wife, Wilma Bauer Federn, and his parents Solomon, a Viennese physician, and Ernestine Federn. General correspondence is comprised primarily of incoming letters from professional colleagues, friends, and organizations. Initially trained in internal medicine, Federn was an early member of Sigmund Freud’s inner circle of psychoanalysts. As a student and close associate of Freud and an original member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, he was actively involved in the development of the field of psychoanalyis. His writings centered chiefly on the psychology of the ego. Letters include discussions of patients, developments in the field of psychoanalysis, and personal notes. There is extensive correspondence from analysts István Hollós and Heinrich Meng. There is also correspondence from Herbert H. Lehman, governor of New York and United States Senator. Other notable correspondents include August Aichhorn, Franz Alexander, Edward L. Bernays, Siegfried Bernfeld, Princess Marie Bonaparte, A. A. Brill, Felix and Helene Deutsch, Max Eitingon, Otto Fenichel, Sándor Ferenczi, Anna Freud, Edward Glover, Georg Groddeck, Karen Horney, Ignotus (1869-1949), Smith Ely Jelliffe, Ernest Jones, Ernst Kris, Olen Nemon, Clarence P. Oberndorf, Oskar Pfister, Sandor Rado, Otto Rank, Theodor Reik, Géza Róheim, Hanns Sachs, Ernst Simmel, Alfhild Tamm, Immanuel Velikovsky, Doris Webster, Fredric Wertham, and Hans Zulliger.
The Case File contains material pertaining to patients Federn treated in New York where he settled after emigrating from Vienna in 1938. The files include Federn’s notes, correspondence, and patient’s writings.
Speeches and Writings by Federn are scant with only fragments of articles, notes, notebooks, and diary fragments extant in the file. Draft copies of speeches and writings sent to Federn by colleagues including Edward Hitschmann, Istvàn Hollòs, and Ignacio Matte Blanco complete the file. Miscellany includes children’s drawings, an emigration guide for psychoanalysts, newspaper clippings, and printed matter.
The Addition supplements the collection with correspondence of Heinrich Meng, Hanns Sachs, August Stärcke, Alfhild Tamm, Victor Tausk, and others. It also includes family papers and genealogical material, school and university papers, printed matter, and speeches and writings, including a typescript of an article by Federn’s daughter, Annie Urbach, entitled “Memories of My Father.”
This collection is arranged in five series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm82052514
Consists of family and general letters.
Arranged alphabetically by name and thereunder chronologically.
Letters sent and received between family members and close personal friends.
Arranged alphabetically by name and thereunder chronologically.
Primarily letters received with copies of letters sent.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization and thereunder chronologically.
Notes, correspondence, and writings by patients.
Arranged alphabetically by patient's name and thereunder chronologically.
Typed and handwritten articles, notes, poems, speeches, and a book.
Arranged alphabetically by name of author.
Certificates, financial and legal records, newspaper clippings, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material and thereunder chronologically.
Correspondence, family papers, memberships, reports, school and university papers, printed matter, and speeches and writings.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material or name of person and thereunder chronologically.