The Freud/Hall Letters
Document Type
Correspondence
Publication Date
1-31-1917
Keywords
G. Stanley Hall, Sigmund Freud, Clark University, psychoanalysis, 1909 Conference
Description
The twenty-ninth piece of correspondence between G. Stanley Hall and Sigmund Freud. Hall laments that one result of the war (World War I) is that he has stopped receiving Freud's Jahrbuch. He mentions reports that it has ceased publication and inquires if there is any option for the volumes to be sent to him personally. In his book Hall the King-Maker: The Expedition to America (1909) by Saul Rosenzweig (1992), the author questions whether this letter ever made it to Freud. The letter is not located in the Freud Archives in London, and Hall never appears to have received a response.
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, "(29) G. Stanley Hall to Sigmund Freud, January 31, 1917" (1917). The Freud/Hall Letters. 3.
https://commons.clarku.edu/freudhall/3
