The Freud/Hall Letters
Document Type
Correspondence
Publication Date
8-9-1909
Keywords
G. Stanley Hall, Sigmund Freud, Clark University, psychoanalysis, 1909 Conference
Description
The tenth piece of correspondence between G. Stanley Hall and Sigmund Freud. Hall invites Freud to stay with him for the duration of his stay in Worcester. In his 1992 book Freud, Jung, and Hall the King-Maker: The Expedition to America (1909), Saul Rosenzweig nots that this letter did not reach Freud before he left Europe. It was forwarded to his hotel in New York where he answered it. Rosenzweig also notes that Hall did not actually host neurophysiologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal at Clark's 1899 decennial celebration.
Clark University's 1909 conference was a celebration of the institution's twentieth anniversary. The conference is most notable for the participation of Sigmund Freud who, along with Carl Jung, would take their first and only trip to America to attend. The five lectures Freud gave, collectively titled “The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis” and subsequently known in print as “Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis”, mark the formal introduction of his theories to the United States.
Recommended Citation
Hall, G. Stanley, "(10) G. Stanley Hall to Sigmund Freud, August 9, 1909" (1909). The Freud/Hall Letters. 22.
https://commons.clarku.edu/freudhall/22
