Fritz Wittels Explained

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

• Sigmund Freud; der Mann, die Lehre, die Schule. Leipzig: Tal, 1924. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul as Sigmund Freud, His Personality, His Teaching, & His School, London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1924
• Die Vernichtung der Not. Translated by Cedar and Eden Paul as An end to poverty, London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1925
• The Jeweller of Bagdad. Doran, illustrated by Violet Brunton, 1927
• Critique of love. New York: The Macaulay Company, 1929
• Die Befreiung des Kindes, 1927. Translated by Cedar and Eden Paul as Set the Children Free!, London: G. Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1932
• 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
• (ed. by Edward Timms) Freud and the child woman: the memoirs of Fritz Wittels, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995

Notes and 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...." Book: Fritz Wittels. Edward Timms. Freud and the Child Woman: The Memoirs of Fritz Wittels. 9 June 2012. 1995. Yale University Press. 978-0-300-06485-8. 9.
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