Fritz Wittels

Fritz Wittels, born Siegfried Wittels (November 14, 1880 in Vienna – October 16, 1950 in New York City), was an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst.

Wittels was the friend and biographer of Sigmund Freud, and the first psychoanalyst of E. E. Cummings.

Works

• Sigmund Freud; der Mann, die Lehre, die Schule. Leipzig: Tal, 1924. Translated by Cedar and Eden 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.
• 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

External links

• Works by or about Fritz Wittels in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

• "[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..."
• Elke Mühleitner, Wittels, Fritz (Siegfried) (1880-1950), International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
• 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