Fritz Wittels, born Siegfried Wittels["My parents, who were full of the Wagnerian enthusiasm of those days, named me Siegfried. I was always ashamed of that name, which was too glorious to be used on weekdays, so they called me Fritz...." ] (November 14, 1880, in Vienna – October 16, 1950, in New York City), was an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst.[Elke Mühleitner, Wittels, Fritz (Siegfried) (1880-1950), International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis]
Wittels was the biographer of Sigmund Freud and the first psychoanalyst of E. E. Cummings.[David V. Forrest, review of Edward Timms, ed., Freud and the Child Woman: The Memoirs of Fritz Wittels, in American Journal of Psychiatry 155:707, May 1998]
Works
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Sigmund Freud; der Mann, die Lehre, die Schule. Leipzig: Tal, 1924. Translated by Eden Paul and Cedar Paul as Sigmund Freud, His Personality, His Teaching, & His School, London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1924
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Die Vernichtung der Not. Translated by Cedar and Eden Paul as An end to poverty, London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1925
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The Jeweller of Bagdad. Doran, illustrated by Violet Brunton, 1927
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Critique of love. New York: The Macaulay Company, 1929
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Die Befreiung des Kindes, 1927. Translated by Cedar and Eden Paul as Set the Children Free!, London: G. Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1932
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Translated by Louise Brink as Freud and his time: the influence of the master psychologist on the emotional problems in our lives, New York: Liveright, 1931
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(ed. by Edward Timms) Freud and the child woman: the memoirs of Fritz Wittels, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995
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