Chapter 1: Letters of 1948–1951

Farewell Party for the Rapaports

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farewell Party for the Rapaports, Aug. 1948. Back row: Maryline Barnard, Bob Holt, Elvira Rapaport, Louisa Holt. Front row: Lee Wexler, David Rapaport, Marty Mayman, Milt Wexler. (click to enlarge)

 

Topics Discussed:

  • • “Stimulus Barrier”
  • • Authoritarian personality
  • • Ego autonomy and hierarchical structure
  • • Application of psychoanalysis to the TAT
  • • Underlying mechanistic vs. organismic assumptions
  • • Kant vs. Whitehead

Getting Started: The First Letters, 1948

Rapaport to Holt, June 23, 1950

Rapaport to Holt, June 29, 1950

Holt to Rapaport, July 3, 1950

Rapaport to Holt, July 6, 1950

Rapaport to Holt, July 29, 1950

Holt to Rapaport, July 31, 1950

Rapaport to Holt, August 8, 1950

Summary of minor letters from June 1950 to May 1951

Holt to Rapaport, May 18, 1951

Holt to Rapaport, June 14, 1951

Holt to Rapaport, July 17, 1951

Rapaport to Holt, July 23, 1951

Summary of minor letters from July to December 1951

For Further Information:

Persons Mentioned

References