The New Atlantis Foundation Dimitrije Mitrinovic Archive Catalogue

NAF 2. Records of the Teachings, Lectures, and Speeches of Dimitrije Mitrinović.

Section description

Reference code

GB 0532 NAF 2.

Title

Records of the Teachings, Lectures and Speeches of Dimitrije Mitrinović.

Dates

1919 -c1995

Level of description

Section

Extent

2.38 linear metres; 0.2499 cubic metres; 17 boxes

Scope and content

Typescript, manuscript and word-processed copies of speeches and lectures given in English and Serbo-Croat, including many delivered to the Adler Society, the New Europe Group, New Britain Group and the members of the less public "Personal Alliance". Also includes notes taken by members of Mitrinović's circle during his talks, as well as indexes, lists, summaries and commentaries created by members of the New Atlantis Foundation to aid study of the lectures.

Language of material

English; Serbo-Croat

Note

See also NAF 1/5, Published Writings by Dimitrije Mitrinović and Related Papers, and NAF 3, Papers of Members of Dimitrije Mitrinović's Circle, which contains further notes taken by his students.

NAF 2/1 Lectures by Dimitrije Mitrinović.

Date: 1919 -[?1990s]

Extent: 9 files

Scope and content: Typescript and manuscript copies of speeches and lectures given to the Adler Society, the New Europe Group and others. Includes translated material and a summary of themes.

Language of material: English; Serbo-Croat

NAF 2/1/1 File. Lectures by Dimitrije Mitrinović 1925 -1929.

Date: 1925 -[?1990s]

Extent: 6 sub-sections

Scope and content: Typescripts and manuscripts of lectures given between 1927 and 1929, with a later "Summary of Main Themes in Lectures 1929 -1933", "Main Themes in Mitrinović's Lectures to the Adler Society" and a list of lectures and statements from The Adler Society, covering 1926-1929 created by the New Atlantis Foundation. Subjects include Adlerian Individual psychology, "Dialectics and Christian Truths", God, the soul, Freud, Jung, Groddeck, Marx, Nietzsche, and the organic conception of society.

NAF 2/1/2 Lectures by Dimitrije Mitrinović 1929 - 1931.

Date: 1929 - [1990s]

Extent: 4 sub-sections

Scope and content: Typescripts and manuscripts of lectures given between 1929 and 1931 as well a list of lectures covering May 1929 - December 1931, bound with treasury tags. Subjects include Individual psychology, women, gnosis, Künkel, gender politics, communal life, "Organicity" [Organic world order], philosophy, neurosis, Adler, Bergson, dreams, insanity, crime, suicide, Allan Upward, vedanta philosophy, Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Brahminism, Christianity, the Ego, the Tantric system, Europe, Hegel, and compulsions. The texts were taken from Mitrinović's own notes as well as notes taken during his lectures by Rose Graham and others.

NAF 2/1/3 File. "D.M. [Dimitrije Mitrinović ] Lectures 1932 - 1938 and undated."

Date: 1932 -?1940, [?1970s]

Extent: 7 sub-sections.

Scope and content: Typescript of lectures given between 1932 - ?1940, alongside typescript and manuscript lists of lectures and keywords within them compiled by members of the New Atlantis Foundation. Subjects include "Conflict of Races", Individual psychology and Adler, militarism and morality, psychoanalysis, Europe and European Federation, "World Synthesis", disarmament, Hinduism, King Alexander of Yugoslavia, Guild Socialism, Purusha, Indian art and Zen Buddhism. The file includes talks given to the New Britain group and extracts from a lecture by Dr. F. Kunkel. The texts appear to have been taken from Mitrinović's own notes, as well as notes taken during his lectures by Cecil Eastgate and others.

NAF 2/1/4 File. "115 Lectures, 1941" by Dimitrije Mitrinović.

Date: 1941, [?1970s]

Extent: 117 items

Scope and content: Typescript of lectures given in 1941, accompanied by a later manuscript list of lectures and keywords within them compiled by members of the New Atlantis Foundation. Subjects include "Axiology", "Anthropo-Psychology", international relations and the Second World War, New Atlantis and Mitrinović's vision for humanity, Consciousness, psychology, and aesthetics. The texts appear to have been taken from Mitrinović's own notes, as well as being written up from notes taken during his lectures by Violet MacDermot, Lilian Slade and others.

NAF 2/1/5 File. "115 Lectures, Handwritten Notes", Recorded during Lectures given by Dimitrije Mitrinović.

Date: 1941

Extent: 37 subfolders

Scope and content: Manuscript notes taken by Valerie Cooper, Violet MacDermot, Winifred Gordon Fraser, Lilian Slade, and Eileen Ryan. Many lectures were recorded by more than one group member, and some note who was present. Subjects include "Axiology", "Anthropo-Psychology", international relations and the Second World War, New Atlantis and Mitrinović's vision for humanity, Consciousness, psychology, and Aesthetics. Annotations record whether the lecture notes were subsequently typed.

Notes: See NAF 2/1/1 - NAF 2/1/4 for typed versions.

NAF 2/1/6 "Illyria Surge!", Speech by Dimitrije Mitrinović.

Date: 1919, [?1970s]

Extent: 6 items

Scope and content: Manuscript of speech delivered by Mitrinović at a dinner held in honour of Dr. Niko Županić, London 1919, entitled "Illyria Surge! U počast jednog naučnika-tvorca". Typescript English translation by David Shillan, "Illyria, Surge! In honour of a scientist (scholar) - creator" (3 versions) and typed transcriptions in the original Serbo-Croat (one annotated by Mitrinović).

Language of material: Serbo-Croat (Cyrillic and Roman script); English.

NAF 2/1/7 Lecture, 'Freud Versus Adler' by Dimitrije Mitrinović.

Date: [?1980s]

Extent: 1 document

Scope and content: Photocopy of a word-processed version of a reporter's transcript of a lecture on psychology given by Mitrinović on 18th November 1928 to the Adler Society.

Notes: Lecture was published in Purpose, quarterly magazine, 1929.

NAF 2/1/8 Speech "Vidovdan Jugoslavije 1929" by Dimitrije Mitrinović.

Date: 1929, 1974

Extent: 3 items

Scope and content: Manuscript in Mitrinović's hand with typescript transcription and manuscript summary by David Shillan. The speech concerns St Vitus Day, 28th June, and the creation of a united Yugoslavia.

Language of material: Serbo-Croat; English.

NAF 2/1/9 File. "Lectures DM [Dimitrije Mitrinović], Groddeck, Jaworski, Sir John Pratt”.

Date: c1930s - 1951

Extent: 11 items

Scope and content: Typescript copies of speeches by Sir John Pratt on "The Crisis in the Far East"; Dr. Hélan Jaworski on "The New Biological Plan"; Georg Groddeck on"Music and the Unconscious Mind"; Dimitrije Mitrinović on Social Neurosis and "The Unconscious in the forms of Government". Also a translation of a poem, 'Conciliation' by Mitrinović.

Notes: Includes duplicate copies.