Frances G. Wickes papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 4300
Subjects: C.G. Jung-Institut (Zürich, Switzerland); Psychology; New York Psychology Group; African Americans; Jungian psychology; Religion; African American churches; Child psychology; Analytical Psychology Club of New York; Psychoanalysis; Dreams
Description: Correspondence, manuscripts of books, poems, dream journals, and miscellaneous writings by Wickes and others, lectures, speeches, case studies, notebooks, subject files, family papers, printed material, drawings, and other papers pertaining primarily to Wickes's work as a Jungian psychologist and author.  Subjects include psychoanalysis, child psychology, dreams, and the unconscious.  Includes materials relating to her work with C. G. Jung, studies at the C.G. Jung-Institut in Zürich, Switzerland, and connections with the Analytical Psychology Club of New York and the New York Psychology Group.  Drafts of her works include The Inner World of Choice (1963) and an unpublished novel, Susan: the Bridge Called Heritage.  Also includes a firsthand description by Eudora Welty of a "Pageant of the Birds" ritual witnessed in an African-American church in Jackson, Miss., and a series of children's case studies obtained through Harriet E. Marks.

Includes correspondence and/or writings of Gerhard Adler, Gay Charteris, Sir Martin Charteris, Chung-Yuan Chang, George Dangerfield, Chauncey Shafter Goodrich, Martha Graham, George Hogle, Robert Edmond Jones, C. G. Jung, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Henry Alexander Murray, Muriel Rukeyser, Eudora Welty, and Thomas Wickes.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Frances G. Wickes, Muriel Rukeyser, and others, 1966-1999.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Author and psychologist.  Born Frances Gillespy.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010257