Photograph of Fritz Wittels between Wilhelm Stekel and Carl Gustav Jung

Fritz Wittels, born Siegfried Wittels[1] (November 14, 1880 in Vienna – October 16, 1950 in New York City), was an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst.[2]

Wittels was the biographer of Sigmund Freud and the first psychoanalyst of e. e. cummings.[3]

Works

References

  1. ^ "[M]y 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...." Fritz Wittels (1995). Edward Timms (ed.). Freud and the Child Woman: The Memoirs of Fritz Wittels. Yale University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-300-06485-8. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
  2. ^ Elke Mühleitner, Wittels, Fritz (Siegfried) (1880-1950), International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
  3. ^ 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

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