Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939)

  • Freud, Sigmund Schlomo (1856-1939)
Date:
1910-1930
Reference:
MS.8677
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Photograph of a letter from Freud to Dr. E. A. Bennet, Vienna, 1930, relating to the Freud-Pierre Janet controversy in which Freud was accused of having stolen his ideas about psychoanalysis from Janet, a fellow pupil of Jean-Martin Charcot. Freud wrote to Bennet to defend himself after speculation led to discussions about the controversy at medical meetings. Also includes an original postcard and signature.

Publication/Creation

1910-1930

Physical description

1 File

Biographical note

Sigmund Freud, the man often credited with being the father of psychoanalysis, was born in Freiberg, Moravia in 1856. When he was four his family moved to Vienna, where Freud would live and work for most of his life. He left Vienna for London following the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938. He died in Hampstead a year later.

Ownership note

Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

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