Freud, Jung and Hall the King-Maker

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In 1909, Freud and Jung sailed to the USA to lecture at Clark University, at the invitation of G Stanley Hall, the founder of the American Psychology Association. These lectures attracted many famous intellectual figures of the time, including William James. During the trip, Freud, Jung, and James all stayed at Hall's house. This book provides a remarkably intimate inside look at these personalities, their ideas and their interaction, and their broader influence on the times. Sources not hitherto available have been utilized, e.g., Freud's travel diary, on deposit in the restricted portion of the Library of Congress. Similar sources have been utilized for the contributions of Jung, Hall, and James. By examining the impact of Freud on James, an unrecognized romantic friendship during the last fifteen years of James's life has been disclosed.

»From the vantage point of a dramatic moment in U.S. cultural history, this book examines the role of psychoanalysis, in particular, and the behavioral sciences, in general, in present-day psychological democracy. The intellectual pioneers Sigmund Freud, C. G. Jung, G. Stanley Hall and William James came together at one unique time in 1909 and engendered a dimate that still endures.

The work is a product of fifty years of research that began when the author was in his first teaching post at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. This was the scene in 1909, twenty-five years earlier, of the only visit of Freud to this country. He came with C. G. Jung, both invited by Clark's President G. Stanley Hall who was planning the 20th anniversary celebration of his University. Twenty-seven other leading world scientists were also invited to lecture. William James, the father of American psychology, came from Harvard "to see what Freud was like" and to stay with Freud and Jung at Hall's house. Thus the scions of psychoanalysis and of American psyehology interacted on this special occasion.

Sources not hitherto available have been utilized, e.g., Freud's Travel Diary, on deposit in the restricted portion of the Freud archives of the Library of Congress. Similar sources have been utilized for the contributions of Jung, Hall and James. Through the approach of idiodynamics, unknown facts about the participants have also been discovered. By examining the impact of Freud on James, an unrecognized romantic friendship during the last fifteen years of James's life has been disclosed.

Part One is written in a readable style for the general reader and is supplemented by a separate Commentary for the interested scholar. Part Two comprises the complete correspondence of Freud and Hall, made available here for the first time. Part Three presents a new translation of Freud's five lectures at Clark on the origin and development of psychoanalysis. These lectures are still the best introduction (or summary) to Freud's influential theories. The translation has been faithfully executed to reflect Freud's brilliant literary style.«

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The Expedition to America (1909)

1. Cast in Context
2. The Invitations
   a) The Setting for the Invitations
   b) Freud's Invitations
   c) Jung's Invitation
   d) Other Invitations
3. Lunch in Bremen and the Ocean Voyage
   a) Meeting in Bremen
   b) Fateful Lunch
   c) The Crossing
   d) Arrival in New York
4. A Walk in Central Park
   a) Jung's Aryan Dream
   b) Freud's Jewish Nightmare
   c) Common Denominator
   d) Synchronicity in Vienna
5. At the Home of the Host
   a) William James Arrives
   b) Hall, James and Psychical Research
   c) Mrs. Piper, the Medium: Hall versus James
   d) Hall and Experimental Psychology
   e) Concluding Appraisals of Psychical Research
   f) The Role of Sexuality
6. The Scope of the Lectures
   a) The Behavioral Scientists
7. Freud Introduces Psychoanalysis
   a) Freud's Lectures as Published
   b) Freud's Lectures as Delivered
8. Jung Supports Freud: The Case of Agathli
   a) Word-Association Studies
   b) The Case of Anna (Agathli)
   c) Sabina Spielrein and Agathli
   d) Agathli in Later Editions
9. James's Day at the Clark Conference
   a) James's Walk with Freud
   b) William James's Dreams
10. A Reinterpretation of Dreams
    a) William James and Pauline Goldmark
    b) "Tragical Marriage"
11. Aftermath (First Part)
    a) Honors and Publications
    b) Interlude at Putnam's Camp
    c) The APA Symposium
    d) The Impetus to Organize Professionally
12. Aftermath (Second Part)
    a) The Freud/Jung Estrangement
    b) Hall the King-Maker
    c) Freud and America
13. Synoptic Chronicle of Events

The Freud/Hall Letters

• Introductory Note on Provenance and Translation
• The Letters, Numbers 1-31

Freud´s Clark Lectures

• Introductory Note on Editions and Translations
• List of Lectures by Topic
• "On Psychoanalysis"—Five Lectures
• Notes and References for the Lectures