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BROOKLYN COLLEGE ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
The Papers of Harry Slochower
Accession Number 88-007
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The Papers of Harry Slochower are contained in 34 boxes, totaling 17
cubic feet.
On view in the collection are numerous published articles, published reviews,
typescripts for articles, and books. The books and periodicals were
written not only by Professor Slochower but by other individuals like Maxim
Gorky, Andre Malreaux, Thomas Mann, Eugene O'Neill, George Santayana, Spinoza,
and Leo Tolstoy. In addition, there are also some works in the German
language by authors such as Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe and Wilhelm Windelband.
There is material on the Association for Applied Psychoanalysis, an organization
that Professor Harry Slochower was president of for a number of years,
and the correspondence, minutes, and newsletters regarding AAP. There
are numerous articles, miscellaneous papers, and newsclippings from
American Imago, a psychoanalytic quarterly, of which Professor Slochower was
editor in chief from 1964 until his death.
One series is devoted entirely to correspondence, incoming as well as outgoing,
to and from a wide assortment of individuals. There are letters from
psychoanalysts to novelists. There is also material on Professor
Slochower's notes regarding lectures and seminars.
Harry Slochower saved many grade books as well.
Another series in this collection contains correspondence and notes on the investigations
into Professor Slochower's supposed affiliations with the Communist Party,
and, in connection with these allegations, his appearance at the Rapp-Coudert
Committee, and questions regarding his "subversive activities." There
is material on Professor Slochowers's appearances, at different time periods,
in court with regard to this controversy. There is mention made of
his being subpoenaed, and the Supreme Court proceedings covering Professor
Slochower's possible Communist Party membership. Relative to this,
there is material and correspondence on Professor Slochower's dismissal,
and eventual congratulations on his reinstatement at Brooklyn College.
There are hearing transcripts, opinion polls, newsclippings, notes on informants,
and even a telegram Professor Slochower received from his students.
Finally, readers can find some personal data here as well. Viewers are privy
to Harry Slochower's diaries going back to 1915, as well as date books,
checks, photographs, school notebooks, and a song that was dedicated to
him in 1935.
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