Helen deutsch psychoanalyst otto

  • Psychoanalysis · University of Vienna · Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.
  • In , Helene Deutsch became the first psychoanalyst to write a book about female psychology, called Psychoanalysis of the Sexual Functions of Women in.
  • Helene Deutsch was one of the most prominent female leaders in psychoanalysis.

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    Helene Deutsch

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    Training Location(s):

    PhD, University of Vienna ()

    Primary Affiliation(s):

    Vienna University's Psychiatric Clinic ()

    Vienna Psychoanalytic Society ()

    Vienna Psychoanalytic Training Institute ()

    Massachusetts General Hospital ()

    Boston Psychoanalytic gemenskap ()

    Career Focus:

    Psychoanalysis; penis envy; Oedipus complex; kvinna masochism; hona superego; kvinna psychology; women&#;s sexuality.

    Biography

    Helene Deutsch was one of the most prominent female leaders in psychoanalysis. She was the first woman to lead Sigmund Freud’s Vienna Psychoanalytic kultur and she contributed significantly to theory on the psychology of women that expanded the purview of Freud’s male-dominant ideas about women.

    Deutsch was born on October 9, , in Przemysla, Pola

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    Helene Deutsch

    American psychoanalyst (–)

    For the writer and critic, see Helen Deutsch.

    Helene Deutsch (née&#;Rosenbach; 9 October – 29 March ) was a Polish-American psychoanalyst and colleague of Sigmund Freud. She founded the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. In , she immigrated to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she maintained a practice. Deutsch was one of the first psychoanalysts to specialize in women. She was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

    Early life and education

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    Helene Deutsch was born in Przemyśl, then in the Polish Partition of Austrian Galicia, to Jewish parents, Wilhelm and Regina Rosenbach, on 9 October [3] She was the youngest of four children, with sisters, Malvina, and Gizela and a brother, Emil.[4] Although Deutsch's father had a German education, Helene (Rosenbach) attended private Polish-language schools. In the late eighteenth century, Poland had been partitioned by Russia, Prussia, and Austria; Hele

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    “As If” Personalities and the Courage to Love

    This essay is part of an e-flux Notes series called “The Contemporary Clinic,” where psychoanalysts from around the world are asked to comment on the kinds of symptoms and therapeutic challenges that present themselves in their practices. What are the pathologies of today’s clinic? How are these intertwined with politics, economy, and culture? And how is psychoanalysis reacting to the new circumstances?

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    Of the partner, love can only accomplish what I called with a kind of poetry, to make myself understood, courage, towards this fatal destiny.
    —Jacques Lacan

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    A fifty-year-old analysand of mine more than once conjured up a scene from Ingmar Bergman’s film Scenes from a Marriage, which had greatly impressed her. The protagonist is a female counselor of couples. In comes a more than mature lady, married for decades and with grown-up children: she wants a divorce. Why? “Because I never loved my husband.” She

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