Converted to EAD3 : Encoded Archival Description (EAD), Version 3 : Release: 1.1.1 : Release Date: 2019-12-16. Validating against latest version of schema.
Contact information: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.contact
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79037325
Collection material in English and Hungarian
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 David Rapaport, psychologist and author, were deposited in the Library of Congress by his wife, Elvira Rapaport Strasser, between 1962 and 1997. Strasser and her daughter, Juliet Rapaport Phillips, converted these deposits to gifts between 1962 and 1998. Additional material was given by Phillips in 1976 and 1996 and by the Sigmund Freud Archives between 1961 and 1976.
Part I of the papers of David Rapaport was arranged and described between 1963 and 1970. Additional material was processed as Part II in 2002. The finding aid was revised in 2010 and again in 2012.
Audio recordings have been transferred to the Library's Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division where they are identified as part of these papers.separatedmat
Copyright in the unpublished writings of David Rapaport in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
Restrictions apply governing the use, photoduplication, or publication of items in this collection. Consult reference staff in the Manuscript Division for information concerning these restrictions. In addition, 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: Roman numeral designating the Part followed by a colon and container number, David Rapaport Papers, Sigmund Freud Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of David Rapaport (1911-1960) span the years 1911-1997, with the bulk of the material dating from 1948 to 1960. The collection documents Rapaport's research and writings in the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis largely as a research associate at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The papers are in English and Hungarian and are organized in two parts. Part I contains material received by the Library between 1962 and 1970 and is arranged in five series: General Correspondence , Foreign Correspondence , Austen Riggs Center , Miscellaneous Correspondence , and Speeches, Writings, and Lectures File . Part II comprises an addition to the collection and is organized in four series: David Rapaport Papers , Elvira Rapaport Strasser Papers , Formerly Closed , and Closed material.
Rapaport's correspondence dates primarily from 1948 to 1960 during his years at the Austen Riggs Center. It focuses on his research and writings in psychology and psychoanalysis including his development of diagnostic psychological testing and his efforts to clarify and systematize psychoanalytic theory. The General Correspondence series contains Rapaport's extensive correspondence with psychologists, psychoanalysts, and professional organizations in the United States. Correspondence with colleagues overseas is located in the Foreign Correspondence series. Prominent correspondents include Bruno Bettelheim, John C. Burnham, Sibylle K. Escalona, Hanna Fenichel, Anna Freud, Merton Max Gill, Heinz Hartmann, Lawrence S. Kubie, Karl A. Menninger, Martin Mayman, Roy Schafer, Richard F. Sterba, and Peter H. Wolff. Routine correspondence including invitations to speak and requests for reprints is filed in the Miscellaneous Correspondence series. The Austen Riggs Center series largely concerns administrative matters pertaining to committees, funding, programs, research associates, staff, and trustees.
The Speeches, Writings, and Lectures File series documents Rapaport's prolific writing career, his extensive teaching experience, and his numerous speaking engagements. Drafts of articles, books, book reviews, lectures, and speeches, transcripts of discussions, correspondence with colleagues, and research material explore his research interests in psychological diagnostic testing, ego psychology, emotions and memory, metapsychology, motivation, psychoanalytic theory, and thought processes.
Part II contains an addition to the Rapaport Papers. Included are photocopies of outgoing letters, largely dated 1950-1960, and a lengthy letter to friends describing a trip to his native Hungary in 1960. Also included are a series of dream notes made by Rapaport as part of his research on consciousness. The addition further includes two of his early psychological works published in Hungary prior to his immigration to the United States.
The bulk of Part II consists of the papers of Rapaport's wife, Elvira Rapaport Strasser , a mathematician and university professor, who resumed use of her maiden name in the early 1970s. Her papers document programs and scholarships established in her husband's name at the Austen Riggs Center and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The bulk of her papers was closed until April 2003 and is now available in the Formerly Closed series. Among the formerly closed material is correspondence with her husband's colleagues including Merton Max Gill, exchanges with fellow mathematicians, and letters from Hungarian friends and family members. The Formerly Closed series also contains her unpublished memoirs describing her early life in Hungary, her experiences on a kibbutz in Palestine in 1933-1935, and her immigration to the United States in 1938.
The collection is arranged in two parts composed of nine series:
Part I:
Part II:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79037325
Correspondence with psychologists, psychoanalysts, and professional organizations.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent or organization.
Correspondence with foreign psychologists and psychoanalysts.
Arranged alphabetically by country and therein alphabetically by name of correspondent.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, and printed matter concerning administrative matters.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material.
Correspondence of a comparatively brief duration including invitations to speak and requests for reprints.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
Drafts of articles, book reviews, books, lectures, and speeches, transcripts of discussions and conference proceedings, correspondence, research, and notes.
Unarranged.
Correspondence, drafts of writings and lectures, notes on dreams, biographical material, and bibliographies.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Correspondence and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Correspondence, legal documents, and drafts of writings.
Arranged and described according to the series, containers, and folders from which the items were removed.
Patient file.
Arranged and described according to the series, container, and folder from which the item was removed.