Annie Reich

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Annie Reich in the Vienna Psychoanalytical Outpatient Clinic in 1922 (seated, 1st from right).
Photo: Ludwig Gutmann
Memorial plaque for Annie and Wilhelm Reich in Schlangenbader Strasse 87 in Berlin, from the series Mit Freud in Berlin

Annie Reich (also: Annie Reich-Rubinstein, born April 9, 1902 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died January 5, 1971 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania ) was an Austrian-American psychoanalyst .

Life

Annie was the daughter of the wealthy Jewish businessman Alfred Pink, her mother Theresa, b. Singer was a trained teacher and active as a suffragette . Annie Pink attended the girls' high school in Josefstadt in Vienna and, like her brothers, was involved in the socialist youth movement in Vienna, where she met Berta Bornstein , Siegfried Bernfeld and Otto Fenichel . From 1921 she studied medicine in Vienna (doctorate in 1926) and attended events of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association . An analysis that had been started by Wilhelm Reich was discontinued because both married in 1922 (from which two daughters emerged, Eva (1924–2008) and Lore (* 1928)). She continued her analysis first with Hermann Nunberg , later as a training analysis with Anna Freud and Frances Deri . In 1928 she became a full member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association.

In 1928 Marie Frischauf and Wilhelm Reich founded the “Socialist Society for Sexual Counseling and Sexual Research ” in Vienna . Along with Anny Angel , Edith Buxbaum and others, Annie Reich took over the management of one of the six free sex advice centers for workers. From the experience gained there, the writing Is abortion harmful? what aroused outrage in the bigoted bourgeoisie and led to police searches of the authors.

In 1930 Annie Reich went to Berlin with her husband and children, where she worked as an associate. Member of the German Psychoanalytic Society was accepted. Here she was politically active in the group of Marxist analysts around Otto Fenichel and was also briefly imprisoned. Together with Edith Jacobson and Edit Gyömrői , she later belonged to a group of 8 to 10 psychoanalysts who, between 1934 and 1945 , kept in contact with each other through top secret circulars that Fenichel edited and sent, despite their separation due to exile.

In 1933 Annie Reich and Wilhelm Reich separated. He emigrated to Copenhagen, she and her two daughters to Prague . There she got to know the former high-ranking secret agent of the Comintern in the psychoanalytical group that Otto Fenichel led from 1935 , who was also known to the initiated only as "Comrade Thomas". With him - who was born as Jakob Reich (1886–1955) in Lemberg, used several pseudonyms and last called himself Thomas Rubinstein - and the daughters Annie Reich went to the USA in 1938. While the former "Comrade Thomas", especially after Trotsky's assassination in 1940 by Stalin's agents, lived in secrecy and worked on a story of the Russian Revolution , Annie Reich had an analytical practice in New York City and a position at Mount Sinai Hospital . From 1960 to 1962 she was President of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.

The daughter Eva Reich became a doctor, the daughter Lore Reich Rubin also became a psychoanalyst.

Fonts (selection)

literature

  • Elke Mühlleitner: Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysis. The members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association 1902–1938 . Tübingen: Edition Diskord, 1992, ISBN 3-89295-557-3
  • Elisabeth Roudinesco , Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms , Vienna [u. a.]: Springer, 2004, p. 853 ISBN 3-211-83748-5
  • Uwe Henrik Peters : Psychiatry in exile: the emigration of dynamic psychiatry from Germany 1933–1939 , Kupka, Düsseldorf 1992, ISBN 3-926567-04-X .
  • Otto Fenichel: 119 circulars (1934–1945) , Frankfurt / M .: Stroemfeld 1998 ISBN 3-87877-567-9 .
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 .
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss : Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 2 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 949
  • Myron Sharaf: Wilhelm Reich - The holy wrath of the living. The biography , Berlin: Simon and Leutner 1994 (Orig. 1983)
  • Karl Fallend: Rich, Annie. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 608f.

Web links

Commons : Annie Reich  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfred Pink emigrated from Austria and died in the USA around 1944
  2. ^ Fritz Pink fell in World War I, Ludwig Pink (* 1898) emigrated to Australia
  3. ↑ Karl Declining: Wilhelm Reich in Vienna. Geyer Edition, Vienna / Salzburg 1988, pp. 115–127
  4. ↑ These circulars were long lost after 1945 and only preserved as partial collections in private estates. A complete print edition was only possible in 1998: Fenichel, Otto: 119 Rundbriefe (1934-1945). Ed. V. Elke Mühlleitner and Johannes Reichmayr. 2 volumes, together 2137 pages and a CD-ROM, Frankfurt / M. - Basel: Stroemfeld-Verlag 1998; see. see the info page .
  5. ↑ See: Markus Wehner / Aleksandr Vatlin : "Comrade Thomas" and the secret activities of the Comintern in Germany 1919–1925. In: IWK , vol. 29, issue 1, March 1993, pp. 1-19; also in: Alexander Watlin: The Comintern 1919–1929: historical studies , Mainz: Decaton 1993. New edition: Alexander Vatlin: The Comintern. Foundation, program, actors. Berlin: Dietz 2009, pp. 247-271
personal data
SURNAME Rich, Annie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reich-Rubinstein, Annie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1971
Place of death Pittsburgh