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Kris, Ernst (1900-1957)
Biographical Note:
Ernst
Kris was born on April 26, 1900 in Vienna, Austria. In 1918 he went to
the University of Vienna to study art
history, archaeology, and psychology. Four years later, he completed
his
PhD in Art History and was appointed assistant curator of the
Department for Sculpture and Applied Art at the Vienna
Kunsthistorisches Museum. In 1927, Ernst married Marianne Rie,
a psychoanalyst, whose father Oscar Rie was a pediatrician
of the Freud children. In
1927 he became a member of Vienna
Psychoanalytic Society. Between 1930 and 1938, Ernst Kris published
papers on applied
psychoanalysis, taught at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute, analyzed
patients, and continued working as an assistant curator on the Museum
collection. When Hitler occupied Austria, the Krises and their two
children had to escape to England. From 1939 to 1940 he worked in the
BBC analyzing Nazi radio broadcasts, and
later was transferred to Canada and the United States. In 1941
he and
Hans Speier led the Research Project on Totalitarian Communication. By
the 1943, Ernst Kris was teaching at the New York Psychoanalytic
Institute and the College of the City of New York. He founded three
research groups, including the Child Center
at Yale University Medical School, which he started with his wife
Marianne. He was also one of the founders of The Psychoanalytic Study of the
Child
journal and served on the editorial board of the Journal of American
Psychoanalytic Association. Ernst Kris died on February 27, 1957, at
the age of fifty
six.
Summary: the collection comprises 9 boxes of pamphlets
arranged alphabetically by author. Most of the publications are
in German. BPSI Archives also holds an interview with Dr.
Marianne Kris recorded in 1979 (see Audiovisual
Materials, audio cassette 403), the
typescripts of The
significance of Freud’s earliest discoveries for the history
of psychoanalysis (1949) by
Ernst Kris (see Scientific Meetings),
and the photographs depicting Dr. Ernst Kris (see Bibring Photograph Collection).
Finding
Aid for
this collection is available
here (viewing it requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Related BPSI Collections
Audiovisual
Materials
Bibring
Photograph Collection
BPSI
History Collections: Scientific Meetings
Related
Archives
Papers of Ernst Kris at Library of Congress
(requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Hans Speier's Papers at University at Albany
(contains articles co-authored with Ernst Kris)
Related Sites
Ernst Kris (from Dictionary of Art
Historians)
Ernst Kris: an annotated bibliography by
Joan M. Wolk
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