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Preliminary Guide to the Karen Horney Papers

Manuscript group 1604

compiled by Diane E. Kaplan

October 2000
New Haven, Connecticut
Copyright ©2000, Yale University Library

Contents

  1. Overview of the Papers
  2. Biographical sketch
  3. Inventory
    • Original
    • Addition
      • 93-M-10
      • 95-M-120
      • 97-M-154
      • 2000-M-091
      • 2000-M-092
      • 2000-M-111

CREATOR Horney, Karen, 1885-1952.

TITLE Karen Horney papers, 1899-1999 (inclusive).

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION 6.50 linear ft.

SUMMARY The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, writings, and photographs documenting the life of Karen Horney. Also included are lecture notes, memoirs and recollections, and interview notes.

LANGUAGE NOTE The papers are in English and German.

PROVENANCE Gift of Renate Patterson, 1991, 1995, and 2000; Dr. Marianne H. von Eckardt, 1991; Bernard J. Paris, 1991-1992 and 1999; Dr. Jeffrey Rubin, Dean, American Institute for Psychoanalysis of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Institute and Center, 1991 and 1997, and Mimi Sheiner, 2000.

RESTRICTION ON ACCESS Box 3 is restricted. Researchers are required to use the preservation photocopies in Box 1 rather than the originals.

Box 3 of Accession 2000-M-091 is closed until 2009 November 10.

TERMS GOVERNING USE Some donors retain copyright. For further information consult the Manuscripts and Archives staff.

PREFERRED CITATION Karen Horney Papers. Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Manuscripts and Archives

Yale University Library

P.O. Box 208240

New Haven, CT 06520-8240

Accession 2000-M-091

Inventory, 1914-1993

Description   Box

Reviews of Self-Analysis, 1942

 

1

Handwritten notes on Madame Bovary [for course Horney taught at the New School for Social Research], n.d.

   

"Enslavement in Marriage", n.d.

   

"Notes on Fear", [193-]

   

"Sadistic Love" [notes and printed summary of lecture], 1943

   

"The Achievement of Freud", n.d.

   

"Understanding Personal Difficulties in a Period of Social Transition", 1938

   

Our Inner Conflicts

   

"The Need for Human Intimacy" [draft of Chapter 3], n.d.

   

"Consequences of Unsolved Conflicts--Resulting Fears" [draft of Chapter 9], n.d.

   

"The Misuse of Psychoanalysis", n.d.

   

"Restricted Applications of Psychoanalysis to Social Work", 1934

   

Biographical data, 1941-1946

   

List of translations of documents already in the Karen Horney Papers, n.d.

   

Kursstunde [German original], n.d.

   

Female Psychology Lectures III, IV, V, VI, VII, 1933

   

Weitre Fragen Der Weiblichen Psychologie [German original and first draft of translation], 1932

   

Abitur examination results [translation of German original previously given to Horney Papers], n.d.

 

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New Ways in Psychoanalysis [reviews], 1939

   

The Neurotic Personality of Our Time [reviews], 1937-1938

   

Remarks on Love [German original with translation], n.d.

   

Chicago paper dealing with material similar to that in lectures on female psychology, n.d.

   

Woman's Fear of Action, n.d.

   

Obituaries and memorial tributes, 1952

   

Harold Kelman's account of Karen Horney in response to a request by Joseph Natterson. [includes correspondence], 1964, 1990

   

Abstracts of talks, essays, lectures, 1942, n.d.

   

FBI files on Karen Horney [obtained through FOIA request in 1984-1988], 1941-1954

   

Grote, Louis [photographs and letter from his daughter], 1914, 1993, n.d.

   

Doctoral dissertation [in German, photocopy], 1915

   

Material by and about Horney from files of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis, 1946-1950, 1974, n.d.

   

Notes from interviews conducted by Bernard J. Paris, 1989

   

Patterson, Renate Horney [includes interview notes and copies of correspondence], 1972, 1989-1993

   

Eckardt, Marianne Horney [includes interview notes and copies of correspondence], 1976, 1989-1992

   

Jack Rubins interview notes [photocopies and transcriptions, also photocopies of correspondence and notes used as background material]

   

Jack Rubins interview notes [photocopies and transcriptions, also photocopies of correspondence and notes used as background material] (cont'd)

   

Key to the symbols, n.d.

 

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Unidentified people, n.d.

   

Brief interviews, 1973-1975, n.d.

   

Barbu, Valer, n.d.

   

Barshall, Leonard, n.d.

   

Bieber, Irving, n.d.

   

Blitsten, Dorothy, n.d.

   

Bonime, Walter, n.d.

   

Boss, Medard, 1974

   

Burnatschki, Kathleen, n.d.

   

Clemmens, Elizabeth, n.d.

   

Crane, Sawahara [Mrs. Cornelius], n.d.

   

Crowley, Ralph, n.d.

   

Daniels, George, n.d.

   

DeMartino, ________, n.d.

   

DeRosis, Louis, n.d.

   

Durham, Else, n.d.

   

Eckardt, Marianne, 1971-1973

   

Ephron, Harmon, 1972

   

Grinker, Roy, 1976

   

Harte, B. Joan, 1976

   

Honroth-Welte, Rita, n.d.

   

Jack Rubins interview notes [photocopies and transcriptions, also photocopies of correspondence and notes used as background material] (cont'd)

   

Hulbeck, Charles, 1972

 

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Isenberg, M., n.d.

   

Kardiner, Abraham, 1973

   

Kelman, Norman, n.d.

   

Kornreich, Karl, n.d.

   

Kubie, Lawrence, 1972-1973

   

Lancaster, Elizabeth, 1972

   

Lederer-Eckardt, Gertrude, 1972-1973

   

Levy, Marie, 1972

   

Lewin, George, 1975

   

Lorand, S., 1972

   

Lowenfeld, Henry, 1973

   

Lussheimer, Paul, n.d.

   

Marcus, Ellie, 1974

   

Marmor, Judd, 1971, 1977

   

Martin, Alexander, n.d.

   

Marx, Eugene, n.d.

   

Mead, Margaret, n.d.

   

Moulton, Ruth, n.d.

   

Muller-Braunschweig, Hans, 1972, 1974

   

Oberndorf, C., n.d.

   

Patterson, Renate Mintz, 1972

   

Jack Rubins interview notes [photocopies and transcriptions, also photocopies of correspondence and notes used as background material] (cont'd)

   

Pisetski, J., 1972

 

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Pizitz, Frances, 1973

   

Portnoy, Isidore, 1975

   

Remarque, Paulette Goddard, 1973

   

Rose, S., n.d.

   

Schachtel, Ernst, 1973, 1977

   

Seidermann, Herta, n.d.

   

Shapiro, Lester, n.d.

   

Speigel, Rose, n.d.

   

Spritzer, Esther P., 1977

   

Sugarman, Katie Kelman, n.d.

   

Swarinski, Brigitte, n.d.

   

Tannenbaum, Rose Landers, n.d.

   

Thompson, Clara, 1971-1973

   

Tillich, Hannah, 1973

   

Von Eckardt, Ursula, n.d.

   

Weigert, Edith, 1972-1973

   

Weiss, Gertrude, 1973

   

Wenkart, Simon, n.d.

   

Westcott, Barbara, 1975

   

Wolf, Alex, n.d.

   

Zucker, Gary, n.d.

   

Jack Rubins interview notes [photocopies and transcriptions, also photocopies of correspondence and notes used as background material] (cont'd)

   

Zuger, Bernard, 1973

 

1

Audio recordings

   

Bernard Paris's interviews with Wanda Willig, Walter Bonime, Norman Kelman, Abe Pinsky, Sara Sheiner [5 cassettes], 1989

 

2

"Human Nature Can Change," with Harold Kelman, Fredrich Weiss, Paul Tillich, and Karen Horney [1 cassette of Town Meeting radio program], n.d.

   

Analytic technique [Horney's last lecture course, copies of original wire recordings on 10 cassettes], 1952

   

Restricted, Open 2009 November 10

Description   Box

Letters from Karen Horney to her daughter Brigitte Horney

   

Photocopies of originals in an archives in Germany

 

3

Translations [The number in the upper left indicates Bernard Paris's educated guess as to the letter's place in the chronological sequence; the numbers on the bottom right indicate the sequence in which the letters came to him.]

   

Diaries # 6: Ego Notebook [translation]

   

Notebook on Children [translation]

   

Unpublished portions of diaries 3, 4, 5 (Adolescent Diaries) [translation]

   

Accession 2000-M-092

Inventory, 1946-1952

Description   Box

Notebooks of Horney's courses at the American Institute of Psychoanalysis [created by Sara Sheiner]

   

Technique, 1946-1947

 

1

Interval meetings, 1947-1948

   

Dream seminar, 1948

   

Therapy, 1952

   

Accession 2000-M-111

Contents   Box

Lazarus, What's Next? A Memoir, by Renate Horney [anecdotes about Karen Horney by her daughter], 1999

 

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Accession 97-M-154

This addition consists of Karen Horney's lecture notes for the course Psychoanalytic Techniques, which she offered at the American Institute for Psychoanalysis in New York City. Horney gave the lectures in succeeding years from 1950-1952.

Folder titles are transcribed from the labels Horney wrote on the front of the original folders. Illegible words and undeciphered abbreviations are indicated by an underlined blank space. The folders are arranged by year and then by the Roman numerals Horney assigned. Folders without Roman numerals are organized at the end of the year. Undated folders are arranged at the end of the accession. Those with Roman numerals are arranged first followed by those without. Some notes may have been used for more than one lecture.

Contents   Box

1950

 

1

I. Aims of Psychoanalytic Therapy

   

I. Dreams

   

III. Specific psychoanalytic means of understanding

   

IV. Specific...Understanding (II)

   

VI. [no title]

   

VIII. Personal Equation

   

Retarding forces--Defenses--Blockages

   

1951

   

II. Dreams--final presentation

   

XV. Dealing with Conflict

   

Dealing with Conflict

   

1952

   

I. Aims

   

II. Diagnostic value--Preliminary Interviews

   

III. Interviews

   

1952 (cont'd)

   

IV. Prognostic Value

 

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V. Patient's attitude toward psychoanalysis--incentives and reservations

   

VI. Practical arrangements

   

VII. Essentials of psychoanalytic ________

   

1952-1953

   

I. Quality of Analyst's Attention

   

II. free association--specific psychoanalytic means

   

III-IV. Understanding the Patient

   

IV. Nature of blockages, Difficulties and Defenses

   

V. Difficulties and Defenses—________ Psychoanalytic Relationship

   

VIII. Interpreting Meaning and Crisis

   

n.d.

   

II. Self-Psychoanalysis of Analyst

   

II. Understanding the Patient

   

III. Preliminary Interviews, The Diagnostic Value

   

IV. History, Therapeutic Value

   

V. Therapeutic Value

   

VII and II. [no titles]

   

X. Form of block

   

XI. Psychoanalytic relationship

   

XIII. Interpretation and Timing

   

XV. Transference

   

n.d. (cont'd)

   

XXV. Termination

 

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Detailed sequence of some sessions, Big sweeping movements

   

Quality of Analyst's understanding

   

What Is Neurosis?

   

Monogame Forderung Problematik

   

Last updated: 06/18/2002