Alice Bálint

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Alice Bálint (born Alice Székely June 16, 1898 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; died August 29, 1939 in Manchester , England ) was a Hungarian psychoanalyst.

Life

Alice Székely was the eldest of three children of Zsigmond Székely and the future psychoanalyst Vilma Prosznitz, aka Vilma Kovács . She had a brother, her sister Olga Székely-Kovács, married Dormándi (1900–1971), became an artist. After the divorce, the three children grew up with their father until 1910 and were then adopted by their mother's second husband, the architect Frigyes Kovács.

Alice Székely-Kovács studied mathematics and ethnology at the University of Budapest and was a student of the ethno-psychoanalyst Géza Róheim . In 1921 she married the doctor Michael Balint (1896–1970), they had their son János, aka John A. Balint, born in 1922. In view of the White Terror in Hungary, they moved to Berlin, where both studied at the Psychoanalytical Institute (BPI) and both completed a training analysis with Hanns Sachs . Alice Balint became an associate member of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Association in 1923 . They returned in 1924, and she completed her training in 1926 with Sándor Ferenczi . In 1926 she became a member, later a training analyst, of the Magyar Pszichoanalitikus Egyesület (Hungarian Psychoanalytic Society) and worked as a child analyst.

The anti-Semitism in the Horthy regime induced her to emigrate to England with her husband and child in 1939. Both were accepted into the British Psychoanalytical Society that same year . She died of a cerebral haemorrhage in Manchester three months after arriving .

A collection of her essays appeared posthumously in 1941 under the title Anya és gyermek [Mother and Child]. A complete edition of her writings was published in French translation in 1997/98.

Alice Balint was mainly concerned with pedagogical questions and a theory of education. Her book Psychoanalysis in the Early Years , which is provided with numerous examples, was published in Budapest in 1931 and in a German edition in 1966.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Mexican War Hieroglyph atl-tlachinoli , in: Imago , 9, 1923, pp. 401-436
  • The family father , in: Imago , 12, 1926, pp. 292-304
  • A gyermekszoba pszichológiája , Budapest 1931
    • Psychoanalysis of the early years of life . Munich: E. Reinhardt, 1966
  • The psychoanalysis of the children's room , in: Zeitschrift für psychoanalytische Pädagogik , 6, 1932, pp. 49–130
  • About a special form of infantile fear (fear of being dropped) , in: Zeitschrift für psychoanalytische Pädagogik , 7, 1933, pp. 414-417
  • A szereter fejlödése és a valóságérzék . In: Sigmund Freud et al .: Lélekelemzési tanulmányok . Budapest 1933, pp. 30-40
  • The meaning of the fairy tale for the mental life of the child , in: Zeitschrift für psychoanalytische Pädagogik , 9, 1935, pp. 113-116
  • Failure and granting in education. The transfer , in: Zeitschrift für psychoanalytische Pädagogik , 10, 1936, pp. 75–83
  • Handling of the transfer on the basis of the Ferenczische experiments , in: Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse , 22, 1936, pp. 47-58
  • The foundations of our educational system , in: Zeitschrift für psychoanalytische Pädagogik , 11, 1937, pp. 98-101
  • Love for mother and mother love . IZP 24, 1939, pp. 33-48
  • Anya és gyermek . Budapest, 1941
  • Oeuvres complètes d'Alice Balint , vol. 1: Ethnologue, éducatrice, théoricienne. Le Coq-Héron No. 147, 1997; Vol. 2: Psychology de la chambre d'enfants. Le Coq-Héron No. 153, 1998
  • with Michael Balint: On transference and counter-transference , in: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis , 20, 1939, 223-230 (also: Transmission and counter-transference , in: M. Balint (Ed.): Die Urformen der Liebe und die Technik of psychoanalysis . Stuttgart, 1966, pp. 246-254)
  • with Wera Schmidt , Melanie Klein , Anna Freud and Nelly Wolffheim : anti-authoritarian education and child analysis . Pirated printing. Hamburg 1970

literature

  • Judith Dupont: L'exil avant l'exil. Michael et Alice Balint , in: Topique No. 80, 2002/3, pp. 95-101
  • Paul Harmat: Freud, Ferenczi and the Hungarian Psychoanalysis . Tübingen: Edition Diskord, 1988, ISBN 3-89295-530-1
  • Willy Hoffer: Alice Balint , in: IZP 25 (1), 1940, p. 102f.
  • Judit Mészáros: Ferenczi and Beyond. Exile of the Budapest School and Solidarity in the Psychoanalytic Movement During the Nazi Years . London, 2014
  • Michelle Moreau-Ricaud: Vilma Kovács , in: Topique, 71, 2000, pp. 57-68
  • Livia Nemes: The Fate of Hungarian Psychology in the Era of Fascism . In: K. Brecht u. a. (Ed.): Here life goes in a very strange way more ... . Hamburg 1985, pp. 82-85
  • Johannes Reichmayr u. a .: Psychoanalysis and Ethnology. Biographical lexicon of psychoanalytic ethnology, ethnopsychoanalysis and intercultural psychoanalytic therapy . Giessen 2003
  • Elisabeth Roudinesco , Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis . Vienna, 1997
  • Júlia Szilágyi: Alice Balint , in: PADD, July 29, 2015
  • Zsuzsanna Vajda: A pszichoanalízis budapesti iskolája és a nevelés . Budapest, 1995
  • Peter Vogelsänger: Alice and Michael Bálint in Berlin (1921–1924) , in: Luzifer-Amor 23 (45), 2010, pp. 169–178

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ entry to Dormandis daughter Judith Dupont in psychoanalytikerinnen.de
  2. ↑ In Memoriam: John A. Balint, MD , at Georgetown University, December 2016
personal data
SURNAME Bálint, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Székely, Alice (maiden name); Alice Székely-Kovács
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1939
Place of death Manchester