Max Schur
A Register of His Papers in the Sigmund Freud Collection in
the Library of Congress
Prepared by Allan Teichroew with the assistance of Brian
McGuire
Manuscript Division,
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
2008
Contact information:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mss/address.html
Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division,
2008
Finding aid URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008038
Title: Max Schur Papers
Span Dates: 1923-1974
ID No.: MSS62040
Creator:
Schur,
Max
Extent: 5,500
items;
18 containers;
7 linear feet
Language: Collection material in
English
Repository:
Manuscript Division, Library of
Congress,
Washington, D.C.
Abstract: Physician,
psychoanalyst, and writer. Correspondence, memoranda, writings, case files,
reports, medical files, and other papers pertaining primarily to Schur's role
as physician to Sigmund Freud (1928-1939) and to Schur's career as a writer and
lecturer on psychoanalytic topics after World War II.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person
or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed
alphabetically therein.
Personal Names
Bonaparte,
Marie, Princess, 1882-1962--Correspondence.
Buber,
Martin, 1878-1965--Correspondence.
Bullitt,
William C. (William Christian), 1891-1967. Thomas Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth
President of the United States: a psychological study (1967)
Erikson,
Erik H. (Erik Homburger), 1902-1994.
Freud,
Anna, 1895-1982--Correspondence.
Freud,
Anna, 1895-1982.
Freud,
Ernst L., 1892-1970--Correspondence.
Freud,
Sigmund, 1856-1939--Correspondence.
Freud,
Sigmund, 1856-1939--Health.
H. D.
(Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961--Correspondence.
Jones,
Ernest, 1879-1958--Correspondence.
Jones,
Ernest, 1879-1958. Life and work of Sigmund Freud (1953-1957)
Mann,
Thomas, 1875-1955--Correspondence.
Pichler,
Hans, 1877-1949.
Schur,
Max.
Trilling,
Lionel, 1905-1975--Correspondence.
Zweig,
Arnold, 1887-1968--Correspondence.
Organizations
United
Restitution Organization.
Subjects
German Americans.
Holocaust, Jewish
(1939-1945)
Psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysts--Biography.
Related Names
Schur, Max. Freud: Living
and dying (1972)
Occupations
Physicians.
Psychoanalysts.
Provenance: The papers of Max Schur, physician, psychoanalyst, and writer, were
given to the Library of Congress by the Sigmund Freud Archives and by Schur's
widow, Helen Schur, between 1956 and 1987. Some of the papers were originally
part of the Sigmund Freud Papers, from which they were transferred in 1990.
Processing History:The papers of Max Schur were arranged and described in 1990. The
finding aid was revised in 2008.
Copyright Status:The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Max Schur is
governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
Preferred Citation:Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the
following information: Container number, Max Schur Papers, Sigmund Freud
Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
| Date |
Event |
| 1897, Sept. 27 |
Born, Stanislau, Poland (Austro-Hungarian Empire) |
| 1915-1916 |
Attended Sigmund Freud's introductory lectures on
psychoanalysis at Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute, Vienna, Austria
|
| 1915-1920 |
Attended University of Vienna Medical School, Vienna, Austria
|
| 1921 |
Received doctor of medicine degree, University of Vienna,
Vienna, Austria
|
| 1922-1938 |
Austrian equivalent of resident, adjunct, and associate
physician in the department of medicine, Vienna Polyclinic Hospital, Vienna,
Austria
|
| 1925-1930 |
Analysand of Dr. Ruth Mack-Brunswick
Received formal training in psychoanalysis
|
| 1928-1939 |
Personal physician of Sigmund Freud |
| 1932 |
Associate member, Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, Vienna,
Austria
|
| 1938 |
Immigrated to England with Sigmund Freud to attend to his
illness
|
| 1939 |
Immigrated to United States |
| 1947-1951 |
Assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, New York
University, New York, N.Y.
|
| 1951-1968 |
Assistant clinical professor and professor of psychiatry,
State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center
|
| 1966 |
Published
The Id and the Regulatory Principles of Mental
Functioning. New York: International Universities Press
|
| 1968 |
Clinical professor emeritus of psychiatry, State University of
New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y.
|
| 1969, Oct. 12 |
Died, New York, N.Y. |
| 1972 |
Posthumous publication of
Freud: Living and Dying. New York: International
Universities Press
|
The papers of Max Schur (1897-1969) span the years 1923-1974 and
include correspondence, subject files, and writings. They feature Schur's
career in medicine and teaching, with the focus on his early role as physician
to Sigmund Freud from 1928 to 1939 and on his activities after World War II as
a writer and lecturer on psychoanalytic topics. The papers are organized into
the following series:
Correspondence,
Subject File,
and
Writings
File.
The most notable aspect of the Schur Papers is the material he
retained and collected pertaining to Freud's medical treatment. Largely
original, the core items on this topic were received from another of Freud's
personal physicians, Hans Pichler, who forwarded to Schur the medical case
history he had begun in 1923. Among the documents are letters, x-rays,
prescriptive data, and other material reflecting the care and diagnoses of
Freud's ailments. Also present is Schur's account of Freud's long struggle with
cancer, first in the form of a retrospective effort by Schur to aid Ernest
Jones in the writing of his multivolume biography and then as part of an
analytical manuscript published posthumously under Schur's name as
Freud: Living and Dying (New York: International
Universities Press, 1972). Files from Schur's book-length study consist of
various notes and research data and are accompanied by voluminous drafts of the
publication in progress.
After Schur immigrated to the United States in 1939, he became
eminent in the area of psychosomatic medicine, especially for his work on
metapsychological insight. Reflected in the
Writings
File are his contributions in this field, his depictions of Freud as both
psychoanalyst and person, and his discussions of anxiety, instinct, and mental
processes. These are issues which also appear with some frequency in the
Correspondence series, including in a few letters of
Sigmund Freud as well as correspondence with other prominent writers and
individuals of the period. Among the main correspondents are Princess Marie
Bonaparte, Martin Buber, Hilda Doolittle, Anna Freud, Ernst L. Freud, Ernest
Jones, Thomas Mann, Lionel Trilling, and Arnold Zweig.
In the
Subject
File are materials relating to the United Restitution Organization, which
supported psychological victims of the Holocaust, and several folders treating
the reaction within the Freudian inner circle to the publication in 1967 by
William C. Bullitt of
Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study.
Correspondence and other files outline the role of Schur
and others, especially Anna Freud and Erik H. Erikson, in opposing Bullitt's
attribution of Freud as coauthor of the study.
This collection is arranged in three series:
| Container |
Series |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| BOX 1-2
|
|
|
Letters to and from Schur, with attached and related matter. |
|
Organized alphabetically by name of correspondent. |
|
| BOX 2-4
|
|
|
Correspondence, reports, memoranda, psychological case files,
manuscripts, financial matter, medical data concerning Sigmund Freud, including
case histories, x-rays, prescriptive data, and other clinical material, and
printed matter and miscellany.
|
|
Organized alphabetically by type of material, topic, or name of
organization.
|
|
| BOX 4-18
|
|
|
Handwritten and typewritten manuscripts in various stages of
preparation, including background matter, correspondence, printed material, and
other items.
|
|
Organized into two segments, a book file and a miscellaneous file
of articles, lectures, and notes, and alphabetically therein by title or
subject.
|
| Container |
Contents |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| BOX 1-2
|
Correspondence,
1936-1969
|
|
Letters to and from Schur, with attached and related matter. |
|
Organized alphabetically by name of correspondent. |
|
| BOX 1
|
Balint, Michael,
1968-1969
|
|
| BOX 1
|
Binswanger, Ludwig,
1961
|
|
| BOX 1
|
Bonaparte, Princess Marie,
1940, 1951-1962
|
|
| BOX 1
|
Buber, Martin,
1962
|
|
| BOX 1
|
Burlingham, Dorothy T.,
1956-1968
|
|
| BOX 1
|
Doolittle, Hilda,
1957
|
|
| BOX 1
|
Freud, Anna,
1939-1969
|
|
(3
folders)
|
|
| BOX 1
|
Freud, Ernst L. and Lucie Brasch,
1958-1969
|
|
| BOX 1
|
Freud, Harry,
1966
|
|
| BOX 1
|
Freud, W. Ernest,
1963-1969
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Hampstead Child-Therapy Clinic,
London, England,
1965-1966
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Hollitscher, Mathilde Freud,
1967-1969
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Jones, Ernest and Katherine,
1953-1961
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Mann, Thomas,
1936-1939
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Newman, Lottie M.,
1968-1969
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Pichler, Hans,
1938-1939, 1950
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Prince Peter of Denmark and
Greece and Princess Eugenie of Greece,
1962-1967
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Ranchetti, Michele,
1968
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Rapaport, David,
1957-1960
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Stone, Irving,
1967-1969
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Strachey, James,
1966-1967
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Travell, Janet,
1961-1964
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Trilling, Lionel,
1957
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Zweig, Arnold,
1963
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Miscellaneous,
1954-1969
|
|
(2
folders)
|
|
| BOX 2-4
|
Subject File,
1923-1969
|
|
Correspondence, reports, memoranda, psychological case files,
manuscripts, financial matter, medical data concerning Sigmund Freud, including
case histories, x-rays, prescriptive data, and other clinical material, and
printed matter and miscellany.
|
|
Organized alphabetically by type of material, topic, or name of
organization.
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Bullitt, William C., regarding
collaboration with Sigmund Freud on
Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological
Study |
|
| BOX 2
|
Correspondence |
|
| BOX 2
|
Between Edward L. Bernays and
Burnes E. Moore,
1967
|
|
| BOX 2
|
With |
|
| BOX 2
|
Bullitt, William C.,
1964-1965
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Erikson, Erik H. (also Anna
Freud, Ernst L. Freud, and others),
1964-1968
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Rutgers University Press,
1964-1966
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Memoranda for the record,
1966
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Reviews,
1966-1967
|
|
| BOX 2
|
Curriculum vitae,
1968-1969
|
|
| BOX 3
|
Festschrift for Schur,
1967-1969
|
|
| BOX 3
|
Foundation and grant data,
1962-1969
|
|
(2
folders)
|
|
| BOX 3
|
Freud, Sigmund, medical case
history
|
|
| BOX 3
|
Documentary file (items by Hans
Pichler, George G. Exner, and others)
|
|
| BOX 3
|
Set I, originals,
1924-1949
|
|
(2
folders)
|
|
| BOX 3
|
Set II, photocopies,
1924-1949
|
|
(2
folders)
|
|
| BOX 3
|
Manuscript by Schur,
"An Introduction to the `Medical History' of Sigmund Freud,"
1954
|
|
| BOX 3
|
Pichler, Hans |
|
| BOX 3
|
Manuscript,
"Krankengeschichte Sigmund Freud,"
1923-1949
|
|
(2
folders)
|
|
| BOX 3
|
Notes on Freud's carcinoma,
translated by Lajos Levy
|
|
(2
folders)
|
|
| BOX 3
|
Shackle, J. W., reports,
1938
|
|
| BOX 3
|
X-rays,
1925-1928
|
|
| BOX 3
|
Photographs of Schur |
|
| BOX 4
|
United Restitution Organization,
case files,
1961-1968
|
|
(3 folders)
|
|
| BOX 4-18
|
Writings File,
1949-1974
|
|
Handwritten and typewritten manuscripts in various stages of
preparation, including background matter, correspondence, printed material, and
other items.
|
|
Organized into two segments, a book file and a miscellaneous file
of articles, lectures, and notes, and alphabetically therein by title or
subject.
|
|
| BOX 4
|
Books |
|
| BOX 4
|
The Id and the Regulatory Principles of Mental
Functioning,
1962-1966
|
|
(4
folders)
|
|
| BOX 5
|
Freud: Living and Dying |
|
| BOX 5
|
Deletions |
|
| BOX 5
|
Retyped |
|
| BOX 5
|
Introduction, chapters
1-12
|
|
(6 folders)
|
|
| BOX 6
|
Chapters 13-27
|
|
(2
folders)
|
|
| BOX 6
|
Miscellaneous |
|
(7
folders)
|
| BOX 7
|
(2
folders)
|
|
| BOX 7
|
First copy |
|
| BOX 7
|
Chapters 1-6 |
|
(4
folders)
|
|
| BOX 8
|
Chapters 7-27 |
|
(5
folders)
|
|
| BOX 8
|
Footnotes |
|
(2
folders)
|
|
| BOX 9
|
Inserts |
|
(2
folders)
|
|
| BOX 9
|
Notebooks |
|
(4
folders)
|
| BOX 10
|
(4
folders)
|
|
| BOX 10
|
Odd pages |
|
| BOX 10
|
Old version |
|
(3
folders)
|
| BOX 11
|
(3
folders)
|
|
| BOX 11
|
Quotations used from Ernest
Jones and Ludwig Binswanger
|
|
| BOX 11
|
Re-edited
material
|
|
| BOX 11
|
Research material
|
|
(2
folders)
|
|
| BOX 11
|
Reviews,
1973-1974
|
|
| BOX 11
|
Second copy |
|
| BOX 11
|
Table of contents,
introduction, and chapter 1
|
|
(2
folders)
|
|
| BOX 12
|
Chapters 2-14 |
|
(12
folders)
|
|
| BOX 13
|
Chapters 15-27 |
|
(4
folders)
|
|
| BOX 13
|
Third copy |
|
(6
folders)
|
|
| BOX 14
|
Miscellaneous |
|
(2
folders)
|
|
| BOX 14
|
Miscellaneous articles, lectures,
and notes
|
|
| BOX 14
|
"Affects and Cognition,"
1968-1969
|
|
| BOX 14
|
"An Introduction to the
`Medical History' of Sigmund Freud"
See Container 3, Manuscript by
Schur |
|
| BOX 14
|
Anxiety papers,
1956
|
|
| BOX 14
|
Bellevue Hospital, New York,
N.Y., lectures on psychosomatic medicine in dermatology and syphilis
|
|
(2
folders)
|
|
| BOX 14
|
"Comments on the Regulatory
Principles of Mental Functioning"
|
|
| BOX 14
|
"Comments on `Unconscious
Affects' and `the Signal Concept,'"
1967
|
|
| BOX 15
|
"The Concept of Development and
Evolution in Psychoanalysis,"
1966
|
|
| BOX 15
|
"Discussion of Sign Phenomena
and Their Relationship to Unconscious Meaning,"
1968
|
|
| BOX 15
|
Drives, Affects, Behavior, vol. II, introduction
to "The Ego in Anxiety,"
1963-1967
|
|
| BOX 15
|
Freud anniversary lecture,
1964
|
|
| BOX 15
|
Correspondence,
1963-1967
|
|
| BOX 15
|
First draft |
|
| BOX 15
|
Handwritten notes |
|
| BOX 15
|
Introduction |
|
| BOX 15
|
Medical Tribune article,
1964
|
|
| BOX 15
|
Second draft |
|
| BOX 15
|
Third draft |
|
| BOX 15
|
Glossary of Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts,
contribution to,
1967
|
|
| BOX 15
|
"The Guilt of the Survivor,"
1968-1969
|
|
(3 folders)
|
| BOX 16
|
(2
folders)
|
|
| BOX 16
|
"Metaphysical Aspects of
Phobias in Adults,"
1963-1968
|
|
(5
folders)
|
|
| BOX 16
|
"Phylogenesis and Ontogenesis
of Affect- and Structure-Formation and the Phenomenon of Repetition
Compulsion,"
1959
|
|
| BOX 16
|
"A Principle of Evolutionary
Biology for Psychoanalysis," coauthored by Lucille B. Ritvo,
1966-1969
|
|
| BOX 17
|
"Psychiatric Sequelae of
Massive Traumatization,"
1964
|
|
| BOX 17
|
"Psychoanalysis and Internal
Medicine,"
1949
|
|
| BOX 17
|
Psychosomatic medicine,
lectures on
|
|
| BOX 17
|
Rosner, Henry, three clinical
papers edited by
|
|
| BOX 17
|
Schneirla, T. C., festschrift
for,
1964-1969
|
|
| BOX 17
|
"Some Additional `Day Residues'
of `The Specimen Dream of Psychoanalysis,'"
1966
|
|
(2
folders)
|
|
| BOX 17
|
"Some Modifications of Freud's
Theory of Anxiety,"
1956
|
|
| BOX 17
|
Unidentified |
|
| BOX 17
|
Biographies,
1964-1969
|
|
| BOX 17
|
Handwritten notes |
|
| BOX 17
|
Papers and lectures,
1959-1969
|
|
(3 folders)
|
| BOX 18
|
(1
folder)
|
|
| BOX 18
|
Reviews and responses to
Schur's writings
|
|
| BOX 18
|
Rosner, Henry,
1968
|
|
(2
folders)
|
|
| BOX 18
|
Miscellaneous,
1966-1968
|
|
The
Library of Congress >> Especially
for Researchers >> Research
Centers
Top
of Page