More checking informs about Freud's and Jung's early experience in America,
biographical data about Fromm's move to America, and Pfister's "The
Psychoanalytic Method." in a 1917 translation by Charles
Rockwell Paine*.
extracted from the web:
"The Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung lectures at Clark University were
only one part of a series of scholarly conferences held during July and
September of 1909 to observe the University's twentieth anniversary of becoming
the 2nd graduate school in the United States. Indeed, Clark's distinguished
reputation was part of the reason that Freud and Jung decided to speak here;
they were relatively unknown while Clark was highly respected. Freud's lectures
at Clark propelled him towards becoming the well-known figure that he is today
because his lectures brought him to the attention of a much wider
audience.
It was G. Stanley Hall, Clark University's President, who brought
about the conferences and who secured Freud and Jung as speakers. For the 1909
celebration, Hall organized conferences about the university's major areas of
study: mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, pedagogy, child
welfare, and international relations. He was able to get men who were renowned
in each of these fields to come lecture because they were to be part of the
celebration of one of America's foremost institutions of graduate education.
Hall was well known as a pioneer among American psychologists and had previously
corresponded with Freud. As a result, he was able to get Freud to come deliver
the only lectures he ever gave in the Western Hemisphere.
Freud's five
lectures were given the overall heading "The Origin and Development of
Psychoanalysis" and he gave the first one on the morning of Tuesday, September
7th. Jung spoke about "The Association Method" in his three lectures, the first
of which was given on Thursday, September 9th. William Stern, H. S. Jennings,
Franz Boas, Adolf Meyer, and E. B. Titchener gave the other lectures in the
psychology conference.
Although there is no record of who attended the
lectures, there is a photo of many of those attending on September 10th. It is
unlikely that many people attended every lecture at the conference. In fact,
Freud and Jung did not even attend all of the lectures; they found one so boring
that they left for a long walk in the nearby countryside.For speaking at the
conference, both Freud and Jung received honorary degrees from Clark. For Freud,
who was visibly moved by the honor, it was the only such degree he would ever
receive. In his autobiography, Freud wrote about what the Clark lectures meant
to him. He wrote: "In Europe I felt as though I were despised; but over there I
found myself received by the foremost men as an equal. As I stepped onto the
platform at Worcester to deliver my Five Lectures upon Psychoanalysis it seemed
like the realization of some incredible day-dream: psychoanalysis was no longer
a product of delusion, it had become a valuable part of reality." Clark
University's former historian, William A. Koelsch, has written a booklet that is
titled Incredible Day-Dream: Freud and Jung at Clark, 1909. It is over 50 pages
in length and discusses Freud and Jung's trip to and ectures at the 1909
psychology conference at Clark University. The cost, including shipping, is
$5.
There are also two photos available of the 1909 Psychology Conference at
Clark University. One is of Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, Carl Jung, A. A.
Brill, Ernest Jones, and Sandor Ferenczi; an 8 x 10 black and white photo of
this costs $25. The other is of both those who spoke at and who attended the
conference on September 10, 1909; there were over forty people in the photo
including the men in the other photo as well as William James and J. M. Cattell;
an 8 x 10 black and white photo of this costs $25. These photos are for personal
use, not for reproduction."
From
Wikipedia on Erich Fromm (for dates of his life in America)
"Erich
Fromm was born on March 23, 1900, at Frankfurt am Main, the
only child of Orthodox Jewish parents. He started his academic
studies in 1918 at the University
of Frankfurt am Main with two
semesters of jurisprudence. During the
summer semester of 1919, Fromm studied at the University of
Heidelberg, where he switched from studying jurisprudence to sociology under Alfred
Weber (brother of the better
known sociologist Max Weber),
the psychiatrist-philosopher Karl
Jaspers, and Heinrich Rickert. Fromm
received his PhD in sociology from Heidelberg in 1922. During the mid-1920s, he
was trained to become a psychoanalyst through Frieda Reichmann's
psychoanalytic sanatorium in Heidelberg.
He began his own clinical practice in 1927. In 1930, he joined the
Frankfurt Institute for
Social Research and completed
his psychoanalytical training.
After
the Nazi takeover of power in Germany, Fromm moved to Geneva and then, in 1934, to Columbia
University in New York.
Together withKaren
Horney and Harry Stack
Sullivan, Fromm belongs to a Neo-Freudian school of psychoanalytical thought.
Horney and Fromm each had a marked influence on the other's thought, with Horney
illuminating some aspects of psychoanalysis for Fromm and the latter elucidating
sociology for Horney. Their relationship ended in the late 1930s.[2] After leaving Columbia, Fromm helped
form the New York branch of the Washington School of Psychiatry in 1943, and in
1946 co-founded the William
Alanson White Institute of
Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. He was on the faculty of Bennington
College from 1941 to 1949.
From Wikipedia on Oskar Pfister (February 12, 1873 – August 6,
1956)...a Swiss Lutheran minister and lay psychoanalyst who was native of Wiedikon./ He
studied theology, philosophy and psychology at the Universities of Zurich and Basel, earning his
degree in 1898 at the philosophical faculty. Subsequently, he became a minister
in Wald (canton of Zürich),
where he remained until 1920./Pfister is remembered for his efforts involving
the application of psychoanalysis into the science of
education, as well as his belief system in a synthesis of psychology andtheology./He was
a pioneer of modern Swiss psychology, belonging to a psychoanalytical circle in
Zurich that was centered around Eugen
Bleuler and Carl Jung.
In 1919, he formed theSwiss
Society for Psychoanalysis. Although the psychiatrist Emil
Oberholzer founded a
separate Swiss
Medical Society for Psychoanalysis in 1928, Pfister stuck with the group
he had started, defending Sigmund
Freud's position on lay
analysis that Oberholzer's
group rejected.[1]
Pfister
was an early associate of Freud's, maintaining an ongoing correspondence with
the latter from 1909 to 1939 (year of Freud's death). Pfister believed that
theology and psychology were compatible disciplines, and advocated the concept
of a "Christian Eros". He was especially interested in Freud's concepts of
the Oedipus Complex, castration
anxiety and infantile
sexuality. From a religious standpoint, Pfister advocated a return to what he
saw as the original fundamental teachings of Jesus Christ. /Today, the
"Oskar Pfister Award"
is awarded by the American
Psychiatric Association along
with the Association of Professional Chaplains for significant contributions to
the field of religion and psychiatry. Selected writings cited by the Wiki:
Psychoanalysis & Faith: the Letters of Sigmund Freud & Oskar
Pfister (1909-39)". and "The Psychoanalytic Method"; Payne, Charles
Rockwell (Translator), 1917.*
*
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Author: Pfister,
Oskar, 1873-1956; Payne,
Charles Rockwell, 1880-1926, tr
Subject: Psychoanalysis
Publisher: New
York, Moffat, Yard & company
Year: 1917
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status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
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