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by Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
Translation © by Elaine Fine (b. 1959)

Lieber Herr Doktor
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Lieber Herr Doktor,

Manuskript angekommen, nicht beschimpfen, klug und keck wie immer.
Dem 'Narren' steht sein Gewand sehr gut.  Er wird viele Freude machen, 
viele ärgern. Ferenczi hat sich ausgebeten, ihn zu begrüßen.  Großer 
Neid ob Ihrer Waldfahrt, aber keine andere Zeit des Jahres? 

Herzliche Wünsche
  
Ihr Freud  

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Georg Groddeck, Sigmund Freud. Briefwechsel, Wiesbaden/Munich: Limes Verlag, 1985, page 51. This is the text on the back of a postcard from Vienna (Wien) dated 09.01.1921 , from Sigmund Freud to Georg Groddeck.


Text Authorship:

  • by Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), no title, written 1921 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

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  • Also set in English, a translation by Elaine Fine (b. 1959) , "Der Seelensucher", copyright © ; composed by Elaine Fine.
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Researcher for this page: Melanie Trumbull

This text was added to the website: 2020-04-16
Line count: 7
Word count: 48

Der Seelensucher
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch) 
Dear Doctor
 [ ... ]

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A letter from Sigmund Freud to Georg Groddeck (1866-1934) dated January 9, 1921.

1 refers to a psychoanalytic novel titled Der Seelensucher by Georg Groddeck. Groddeck is often called the founder of psychosomatic medicine. Freud credited him with naming the "id".
2 Sandor Ferenczi reviewed the novel in Imago, July 1921. Freud was an editor for this magazine.

Text Authorship:

  • by Elaine Fine (b. 1959), "Der Seelensucher", copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), no title, written 1921
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Elaine Fine (b. 1959), "Der Seelensucher", 2011 [voice and piano], dedicated to Seymour Barab, on his 90th birthday [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

This text was added to the website: 2014-08-20
Line count: 7
Word count: 54

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