Ernest Jones collection - The British Psychoanalytical Society Archive

Zona de identificação

Código de referência

GB BPASA P04

Título

Ernest Jones collection

Data(s)

1899-1993 (Produção)

Nível de descrição

Arquivo

Dimensão e suporte

54 boxes + 2 microfilms

Zona do contexto

Nome do produtor

Jones | Alfred Ernest

(1879-01-01--1958-02-11)

História biográfica

Ernest Jones was born in Gowerton in Wales on 1 Jan 1879. He began his degree in medicine at the University of Cardiff but completed it at University College London in 1900.

Jones discovered the work of Sigmund Freud in 1906 and soon began to practice psychoanalysis. He first met Freud at the first International Psychoanalytical Congress held in Salzburg in 1908. In the same year, Jones emigrated to become Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and whilst in North America, he organised the inaugural meeting of the American Psychoanalytical Association in 1911.

After a brief analysis with Ferenczi, Jones returned to London in 1913 and set about forming the London Psychoanalytical Society, only four of whose original fifteen members were psychoanalysts. The Society was dissolved after the end of the First World War.

In 1919, Jones managed to re-establish contact with the psychoanalytic community in Europe and founded the British Psychoanalytic Society, of which he remained president until 1944. He was twice president of the International Psychoanalytical Association (1920-1924 and 1932-1939) and took charge of the resettlement of analysts fleeing Nazi persecution.

In 1947, he began writing his three-volume biography of Freud, which he completed in 1957. He died on 11 Feb 1958. He married twice, first to the Welsh singer and musician Morfydd Llwynn Owen in 1917 (she died in 1918) and in 1919 to Katherine Jökl, an Austrian.

Entidade detentora

British Psychoanalytical Society Archive

Zona do conteúdo e estrutura

Âmbito e conteúdo

Ernest Jones' writings and lectures, including papers concerning his three-volume biography of Sigmund Freud, plus professional papers, correspondence, press cuttings and personal material.

The majority of the material in this collection concerns Jones' three-volume biography of Sigmund Freud and his extensive correspondence with psychoanalytic colleagues in Europe, the USA and elsewhere. Also included are other writings and lectures, plus recordings and scripts of radio broadcasts; professional papers, especially concerning the International Psychoanalytical Association; press cutting albums; photographs of Jones, Sigmund Freud and other colleagues; and personal and posthumous material.

Incorporações

No further accruals are expected.

Sistema de arranjo

The material is arranged into seven series:
P04-A - Writings, lectures and broadcasts
P04-B - Professional papers and notebooks
P04-C – Correspondence
P04-D - Papers by other authors
P04-E - Press cutting albums
P04-F – Photographs
P04-G - Personal and posthumous papers

Zona de condições de acesso e utilização

Condições de acesso

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Condiçoes de reprodução

Copies of material from our archive collections may be supplied for research and private study in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Written permission must be obtained from the chair of the archive committee and the archivist to reproduce or publish any material held in our archive.

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearance from the copyright holder.

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Idioma do material

dinamarquês
inglês
francês
alemão
italiano

Sistema de escrita do material

latim

Notas ao idioma e script

Características físicas e requisitos técnicos

Instrumentos de descrição

The collection catalogue is published online.

Zona de documentação associada

Existência e localização de originais

Existência e localização de cópias

Unidades de descrição relacionadas

Records related to Ernest Jones' work within the British Psychoanalytical Society can be found amongst the records of the Society (ref. S). Also, the archives' press cuttings collection contains published reviews of Jones' writings (including many reviews of his Freud biography) as well as further cuttings on the early history of psychoanalysis (ref. PC).

Additional material related to the emigration of European analysts before and during the Second World War can be found in the Society's records, in the John Rickman collection (ref. P03) and in the records of the Ernest Jones Rehabilitation Fund (ref. P33).

The following papers related to Jones are held elsewhere:
The Clendening History of Medicine Library at the University of Kansas holds notebooks and papers (1895-1898, 20 items)
The Library of Congress in Washington DC holds over 20 collections of psychoanalysts' papers which contain correspondence with Jones
The McMaster University Library in Ontario holds correspondence with Bertrand Russell (1924-1957)
The British Library Manuscript Collections hold letters from Jones to Havelock Ellis (1910-1927, ref. Add MS 70539).

Descrições relacionadas

Nota de publicação

The following books are amongst many which have drawn upon this collection:
Ernest Jones (1953-1957). 'Sigmund Freud: Life and Work', Volumes I-III. London: Hogarth Press.
Ernest Jones (1959). Free Associations. Memories of a Psychoanalyst. New York: Basic Books, Inc.
Vincent Brome (1983). 'Freud's Alter Ego'. New York: Norton.
R Andrew Paskauskas (ed) (1993). 'The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones 1908-1939'. Cambridge, MA & London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Riccardo Steiner (2000). 'It is a New Kind Of Diaspora'. Explorations in the Sociopolitical and Cultural Context of Psychoanalysis. London: Karnac Books.
Brenda Maddox (2006). 'Freud's Wizard'. London: John Murray.