Otto Rank Association records, 1934-1993

Otto Rank Association records, 1934-1993

Summary Information

Abstract

The Records of the Otto Rank Association, founded by Virginia P. Robinson in 1965 and disolved in 1983.

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#0958
Bib ID:
4078427 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Otto Rank Association
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
24 linear feet (56 boxes)
Language(s):
English .
Access:
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This collection has no restrictions.

Description

Scope and Content

Correspondence, manuscripts, minutes, lists, and legal documents, financial records, publicity materials, and printed items. Among the correspondents are: Anna Freud, Ernst L. Freud, Erich Fromm, Ernest Jones, Rollo May, Karl Menninger, Henry Miller, and Anaïs Nin, a frequent lecturer at meetings. There are 117 letters from Nin discussing her lecture tours and the publication of her diaries.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in 4 series.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located on-site.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Otto Rank Association records; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Related Rank Collections at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library:

Otto Rank Papers

Saul Hofstein Papers

Virginia P. Robinson Papers

Jessie Taft Papers

E. James Lieberman Papers

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of the Association, 1984-1986.

Gift of Anita J. Faatz, 1990.

Gift of Gunther Stuhlmann, 1993.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Source of acquisition--The Otto Rank Association. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1984.

Papers: Source of acquisition--Faatz, Anita J. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--11/07/1990. Accession number--M-90-11-07.

ANAIS (Journal): Source of acquisition--Stuhlmann, Gunther. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1993. Accession number--M-1993.

Papers re. E. Salomon: Source of acquisition--Lieberman, E.J. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--05/08/1997. Accession number--M-97-05-08.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers Processed HR 09/--/1984.

Papers Processed HR 04/05/1991.

ANAIS (Journal) Added to collection HR 04/13/1993.

Papers re. E. Salomon Processed HR 01/05/2000.

Revision Description

2013-10-11 Ead version published by Patrick Lawlor

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical sketch

The Otto Rank Association was planned by J. Jessie Taft and founded by Virginia P. Robinson in 1965 to foster and develop interest in the writings of Otto Rank, the psychoanaylyst, to promote further exploration of his concepts and their meaning for art, literature, psychology, psychotherapy, and the history of culture through publication, translation, discussion, and research; and to establish an information center regarding these and related writings. Otto Rank was an early associate and later opponent of Sigmund Freud. The Association was disolved in 1983.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Articles
Audits
Bylaws (administrative records)
Certificates
Charters
Financial records
Inventories
Leases
Ledgers (account books)
Lists (document genres)
Newsletters
Notes (documents)
Personnel records
Photographic prints
Reports
Reviews (documents)
Tax returns
Wills
minutes (administrative records)
Name
Freud, Anna, 1895-1982
Freud, Ernst L., 1892-1970
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980
Jones, Ernest, 1879-1958
May, Rollo
Menninger, Karl A (Karl Augustus), 1893-1990
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980
Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977
Rank, Otto, 1884-1939
Robinson, Virginia P (Virginia Pollard), 1883-1977
Taft, Jessie, 1882-1960
Subject
Mental health
Mental health counseling
Psychiatry
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysts
Psychology, Pathological
Psychotherapists
Psychotherapy
Social workers
Sociologists

Series I: Cataloged Correspondence and Manuscripts


Box 1

Freud, Anna


Box 1

Freud, Ernst L.


Box 1

Fromm, Erich


Box 1

Jones, Ernest


Box 1

May, Rollo


Box 1

Menninger, Karl Augustus


Box 1

Miller, Henry


Box 1

Nin, Anals

Series II: Uncataloged Correspondence, Manuscripts & Printed Materials


Box 2

Correspondence: A


Box 2

Correspondence: B


Box 2

Correspondence: Pearce Bailey, M.D.


Box 2

Correspondence: Ernest Becker


Box 2

Correspondence: Abigail Brownell


Box 2

Correspondence: C


Box 2

Correspondence: D


Box 2

Correspondence: E


Box 2

Correspondence: Ophelia Egypt


Box 2

Correspondence: Rudloph Ekstein


Box 2

Correspondence: F


Box 2

Correspondence: Philip Freund


Box 2

Correspondence: G


Box 3

Correspondence: Martin Grotjohn., (3 folders)


Box 3

Manuscripts: Martin Grotjohn., (2 folders


Box 3

Drawings: Martin Grotjohn., (1 folder)


Box 3

Correspondence: H


Box 3

Correspondence: J


Box 3

Correspondence: K


Box 4

Correspondence: E. James Lieberman


Box 4

Correspondence: L


Box 4

Correspondence: M


Box 4

Correspondence: N


Box 4

Manuscripts & Printed: Anaïs Nin, 1965-73, (13 folders


Box 5

Correspondence: O


Box 5

Correspondence: P


Box 5

Correspondence: R


Box 5

Correspondence: G


Box 5

Correspondence: Rank, Beata "Tola" Mincer


Box 5

Correspondence: Rank, Estelle Buel


Box 5

Correspondence: Rank, Helene


Box 5

Correspondence: Callman, Rawley


Box 5

Correspondence: Robinson, Virginia P.


Box 5

Correspondence: Rogers, Carl


Box 5

Correspondence: Ruzo, Ellya


Box 6

Correspondence: S - Sil


Box 6

Correspondence: Sl - Sz


Box 6

Correspondence: Spencer, Sharon


Box 6

Correspondence: Sward


Box 6

Correspondence: T


Box 6

Correspondence: V


Box 6

Correspondence: W


Box 6

Correspondence: Waddington, Miriam


Box 6

Correspondence: Wells, Ruth


Box 6

Correspondence: Z

Series III: Subject Files


Box 7

Board of Directors


Box 7

Brovnell, Abigail F. - Will


Box 7

By Laws


Box 7

By Laws - Statement of Purpose


Box 7

Charter & Certificate


Box 7

Committees: Book Cabinet


Box 7

Committees: Budget


Box 7

Committees: Finance


Box 7

Committees: Nominating


Box 7

Dissolution: Correspondence


Box 7

Dissolution: Documents


Box 8

Financial: Auditor's Reports, 1966-19-82


Box 9

Financial: Bank Records


Box 9

Financial: Fund Raising


Box 9

Financial: Income & Expense Ledgers


Box 10

Financial: Royalty Statements & Copyright Information-A -U


Box 10

Financial: Tax Exemption Records


Box 10

Financial: Tax Returns, 1979-1981


Box 10

Financial: Taxes


Box 10

Founding Correspondence


Freud, Sigmund--Rundbriefe:


Box 11

Balint, Michael


Box 11

Grotjahn Manuscript


Box 11

Grotjahn Project


Box 11

Group A Complete


Box 11

Group A Old Copy


Box 11

Group B


Box 11

Group C


Box 11

1920


Box 11A

1921(?)


Box 11A

1921


Box 11A

1922; 1923; 1924; 1924-25


Box 12

Salomon, Eva


Box 12

Taft & Robinson


Box 12

Sale of Freud letters


Box 12

Fromm, Erich


Box 12

Incorporation Documents


Box 12

Insurance


Journal:


Box 12

Article Ideas


Box 12

Correspondence


Box 12

I.S.S.N.


Box 12

Promotion


Box 12

Reprint Requests


Box 12

Requests for Review Copies


Box 12

Requests to Cite


Box 13

Soliciting Papers & Comments


Box 13

Subscription Correspondence


Box 13

Lease


Box 13

Lewisohn, Ludwig: Re. his correspondence with Otto Rank


Box 13

Library Inventory


Box 14

Meetings, Board, 1965-1982


Box 15

Meetings, Board, 1965-1982


Box 16

Meetings, Board, 1965-1982


Box 16

Meetings, Membership, 1966-1968


Box 16

Meetings, Membership, 1969-1970


Box 16

Meetings, Membership: Programs, 1966-1982


Box 17

Membership Card File


Box 18

Membership Ledgers


Box 18

Membership Statistics


Box 18

Membership Survey


Box 18

The New Yorker article--Correspondence


Box 18

Newsletter, 1966-1981


Box 18

Personnel: Payroll


Box 18

Personnel: Insurance & Taxes


Box 19

Procedures


Box 19

Procedures: Forms


Box 19

Proxy Letters


Box 19

The Psychological Center, Paris


Box 20

Publishing Activities: A-U


Rank, Otto:


Box 21

Class Seminars & O.R.A. Research


Box 21

Collection at Columbia University Articles


Box 21

Collection at Columbia University Correspondence


Box 21

Collection at Columbia University Inventory


Box 21

Collection at Columbia University Requests for Photocopying


Box 21

Grinstein Index on Rank


Box 21

Life Chronology


Box 21

List of Works compiled by O.R.A.


Box 21

Misc. Articles about Rank


Box 21

Misc. References


Box 21

O.R.A.. Promotion


Box 21

O.R.A. Research Correspondence


Box 21

University of Vienna Degree


Rank, Otto: Works:


Box 22

Die Analyse des Analytikers - Reviews


Box 22

Art and Artist - Translation of Der Kiinstler


Box 22

Beyond Psychology


Box 22

Der Doppelganger - Correspondence


Box 22

Genetic Psychology


Box 22

Imago; zeitschrift...1912 - Photocopy of title page


Box 22

Inzest-Motiv - Correspondence


Box 22

Letters with Dr. George Wilbur


Box 22

Die Lohengrinsage - Positive photostat


Box 22

Die Nacktheit in Sage und Dichtung - Photocopy


Box 22

Nudity in Myth and Poetry


Box 22

The Psychological Approach to Personal Problems


Box 22

Das "Schauspiel" in "Hamlet" - Photocopy


Box 22

Der Sinn der Griselda-Fabel - Photocopy


Box 22

Totemismus im Marchen - Photocopy


Box 22

Truth and Reality - Promotion


Robinson, Virginia:


Box 23

The Committee - Introduction


Box 23

Jessie Taft - Reviews


Box 23

Notes on the O.R. Collection at Columbia


Box 23

Memorial Book by O.R.A.


Taft, J. Jessie:


Box 23

Correspondence re. Otto Rank


Box 23

Correspondence re. Otto Rank - Jack Jones


Box 23

Correspondence re. Otto Rank - Lovell Langstroth


Box 23

Correspondence re. Otto Rank - Pennsylvania School of Social Work


Box 23

Otto Rank - Correspondence


Box 23

Otto Rank - Notes


Box 23

Otto Rank - Reviews of book


Box 24

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 25

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 26

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 27

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 28

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 29

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 30

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 31

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 32

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 33

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 34

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 35

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 36

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 37

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 38

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 39

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 40

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 41

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 42

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 43

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 44

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 45

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 46

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 47

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 48

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 49

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 50

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked


Box 51

Printed materials & the seal of The Otto Rank Association. Periodicals & books with references to Otto Rank marked

Series IV: 1990-2022 Additions


Arranged Corerspondence:


Box 52

Diane Fernandez re. Anais Nin


Box 52

Eugene T. Gendlin


Box 52

Frank P. Gendusi


Box 52

Jacket blurbs


Box 52

Fay B. Karpf


Box 52

Miscellaneous


Box 52

Publishers


Box 52

Responses, 1967-1968


Box 52

Ruth Elizabeth Smalley


Box 52

Gunther Stuhlman


Arranged Manuscripts, Subject Files, & Printed Materials:


Box 52

AMS Press, Inc.


Box 52

Announcements


Box 52

Article by Pearce Bailey


Box 52

Articles by V.P.R, from the JORA


Box 52

Brochures - drafts


Box 52

Chapter on Rank by V.P.R.


Box 52

Copyright


Box 52

Crosby, Phoebe: Account of therapy with Rank


Box 53

Ending of the O.R.A.


Box 53

Faatz, Anita - Lecture notes at Washington School of Psychiatry


Box 53

Finances


Box 53

Fromm, Erich


Box 53

Fund appeal letter


Box 53

Hechler, Jacob re. publishing


Box 53

History of school


Box 53

Invitation, 1967 & replies


Box 53

Letter to membership, Feb. 1982


Box 53

Miscllaneous


Box 54

The New Yorker article


Box 54

Nin, Anais - mailing list


Box 54

W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. - orders


Box 54

Occasional Letter


Box 54

Occasional Letter - 1977 responses


Box 54

Orders


Box 54

Promotional material


Box 54

Quotations - Rank


Box 54

Rank-Freud letters


Box 54

Seidenman, Ethel Wannemacher: interview - therapy with Rank


Box 54

Shereshefsky, Pauline M. - account of Rank analysys, etc.


Box 54

Silverman, Sam


Box 54

Traumdeutung by Freud


Box 54

Will Therapy - review


2000 Addition:


Box 54

Salomon, Eva - Misc. materials


2022 Addition: Otto Rank Association of North Carolina Records

Sarah DeLancey brought these items to Mars Hill University's Southern Appalachian Archives on September 9, 2021. They were the possession of Nancy Hall, a lifelong social worker and at some point a professor of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Here is an article about Ms. Hall: https://iournalnow.com/news/local/no-time-fo-stop-retiree-stays- very-busy-looking-after-the-interests-of-the-elderly/article 6b3c000c-04fd-5164-8fe7-a2ba32afeO8c.html.


Notebooks, etc.:


Box 55

"Otto Rank Association of North Carolina, Inc.; Articles of Incorporation; Tax Exempt Status; Correspondence; Certificates", 1982-1985


Box 55

"N.C. Branch Otto Rank Association", 1972


Box 55

"North Carolina Branch Otto Rank Association", 1973


Box 55

"The Otto Rank Association, North Carolina Branch", 1974


Box 55

"North Carolina Branch Otto Rank Association", 1975


Box 55

"North Carolina Branch Otto Rank Association", 1976


Box 55

"North Carolina Branch The Otto Rank Association", 1977


Box 55

"North Carolina Branch The Otto Rank Association", 1978


Box 55

"North Carolina Branch The Otto Rank Association", 1979


Box 55

"North Carolina Branch The Otto Rank Association", 1980


Box 55

"North Carolina Branch The Otto Rank Association", 1981


Box 55

"Otto Rank Association of North Carolina, Inc.", 1982


Box 55

"Otto Rank Association of North Carolina, Inc.", 1983


Box 55

"North Carolina Branch, Otto Rank Association", 1984


Box 55

"Otto Rank Association of North Carolina, Inc.", 1985/1986


Box 55

"The Otto Rank Association of North Carolina, Inc., The Otto Rank Study Fund", 1983-1986


Box 55

Loose papers related to the Otto Rank Association of North Carolina


Box 55

Loose documents from the Otto Rank Association, Doylestown, PA., 1967-1980


Box 55

Notebook labeled, "Otto Rank Association, Doylestown, PA.", 1967-1972


Box 55

Envelope labeled, "Otto Rank Association Member Addresses and Flyers"