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Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud

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Auction Date:2011 Oct 12 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS in German, signed “Freud,” one page, 5.75 x 4, March 24, 1936. Brief letter to Arthur Foxe thanking Dr. Foxe for sending his book “Crime and Sexual Develop[ment].” Freud has also hand-addressed the other side of the postcard to Foxe at Great Meadow Prison. Scattered creases and soiling, a few stray ink marks and light show-through from address panel, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by a booklet entitled ‘Sigmund Freud, 1856–1939, Contributions to Contemporary Science and Practice,’ with Foxe’s ownership stamp to the top of front cover.

Foxe was a psychiatrist at the aforementioned New York prison when he authored Crime and Sexual Development: Movement and Fixation of the Libido in Criminotic Individuals. In his book he surveyed—from a psychoanalytic point of view— the major forms of crime, with references to Freud’s teachings. Freud, of course, is credited with the development of psychoanalytic theory, the view that everyone has natural urges and criminal tendencies that, in most people, are curbed during early developmental stages. Freud’s signature is always rare and desirable, with those qualities enhanced by his handwritten reference, in English, to Crime and Sexual Development.