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Dear editor,
I would be very happy if you could publish this letter.
I am studying psychology at the University of Salzburg/Austria. To finish my studies I am working on a dissertation about the Austrian psychoanalyst Otto Fenichel. He had to emigrate from the Nazis in 1938 and went to Los Angeles. There he died in 1947.
The difficulty for me is that a lot of information—especially for the biography of Otto Fenichel—is hard to find because of the destruction of documents and archives, done by the Nazis.
There is no estate of this important psychoanalytic theorist existing; what he left behind is dispersed between his relatives, friends, co-workers and pupils.
I am sure that their is a lot of unpublished information especially in the hands of analysts from the USA, for example letters or some private reminiscences. For the owner of these documents they might look insignificant, but for my work they could be an important stone in the mosaic. It would be a pity if this kind of information never gets published. So I ask the reader of this letter who feels pleased, to contact me.
Thank you