Béla Grunberger

Béla Grunberger (born February 22, 1903 in Nagyvárad , Austria-Hungary , † February 25, 2005 in Paris ) was a French psychoanalyst of Hungarian origin.

Life

Béla Grunberger was born to Jewish parents in Nagyvárad in Transylvania in 1903 . He spent his youth in Hungary , Germany and Switzerland . In 1940 he went to France to join the French army in the fight against Nazi Germany . The army rejected him for unknown reasons, but he stayed in France from then on. While a large part of his family was murdered in Auschwitz , he survived the time of German occupation and the Vichy regime in France. During his underground life he was partially supported by members of the Resistance . He himself smuggled weapons for the Resistance.

In 1946 Grunberger became a doctor of medicine in Paris. After a training analysis with Sacha Nacht , he became a full member of the Société Psychoanalytique de Paris (Paris Psychoanalytical Association) in 1953 . In this he remained active and led various training seminars. Grunberger often traveled to post-war Germany and took part in the reorganization of psychoanalysis there. In 1960 he was involved in founding the Institute and Training Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychosomatic Medicine (from 1964 Frankfurt Psychoanalytical Institute ) in Frankfurt. The psychoanalyst and psychiatrist René Major did his training analysis with Grunberger.

In the 1940s and 1950s, Grunberger was a member of the Parti communiste français (French Communist Party), where he also met his future wife and colleague Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel . However, after the Red Army violently suppressed the Hungarian uprising in 1956, he and Chasseguet-Smirguel broke with the Communist Party. In the wake of the May riots in Paris in 1968 , both wrote - under the pseudonym "André Stéphane" - L'Univers contestationnaire ou les nouveaux chrétiens (Paris 1969), a critical examination of the student movement and Stalinism .

Grunberger died at the age of 102 on the night of February 25th to 26th, 2005 in Paris.

plant

In his work, Béla Grunberger primarily dealt with the subject of narcissism . He assumed that there was an original narcissism that was already located in intrauterine life. Grunberger assumed that a narcissistic feeling of omnipotence and elation prevailed in the unborn child, because it did not know that it was already dependent on objects. After the birth, this illusion is increasingly attacked by reality, which arouses the child's desire to return to the original, narcissistic state. While the malignant narcissist, according to Grunberger, clings to the illusion of a narcissistic primal state, narcissism is integrated into normal development and placed in the service of the ego .

Fonts

• Sigmund Freud et Béla Grunberger (dir.), Les Rêves: la voie royale de l'inconscient, Paris, Tchou, 1997 ( ISBN 2710705931 )
• Daniel Widlöcher and Béla Grunberger (dir.), Les Névroses: l'homme et ses conflits, Paris, Tchou, coll. "Les Grandes découvertes de la psychanalyse", 1997 ( ISBN 2710705966 )
• Béla Grunberger et Janine Chasseguet-Smirguel, L'univers contestationnaire, Paris, In Press, 2004 (réimpr. 2002) ( ISBN 284835044X )
• Béla Grunberger and Janine Chasseguet-Smirguel, Freud ou Reich. Psychanalysis et illusion, Tchou, 1976
• Béla Grunberger, Le narcissisme: essais de psychanalyse, Paris, Rivages & Payot, 2003 ( ISBN 2228897728 )
• Béla Grunberger et Pierre Dessuant, Narcissisme, christianisme, antisémitisme: étude psychanalytique, Arles France, Actes Sud, 1997 ( ISBN 9782742712618 )

Published in German

• From narcissism to object . From the Franz. By Peter Canzler. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1976. ISBN 978-3-518-07280-6
  • New edition under the same title: Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2001, ISBN 978-3-89806-057-8
• Freud or Reich? Psychoanalysis and Illusion . With Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel . From the Franz. By Gerhard Ahrens. Ullstein, Frankfurt / M., Berlin, Vienna 1979. ISBN 978-3-548-03583-3
• Narcissus and Anubis. Psychoanalysis beyond the drive theory . Collection of articles (2 vol.). From the Franz. By Eva Moldenhauer . Publishing house Internat. Psychoanalysis, Munich / Vienna 1988
• Narcissism, Christianity, anti-Semitism. A psychoanalytic investigation . With Pierre Dessuant. From the Franz. By Max Looser. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2000. ISBN 978-3-608-91832-8

Web links

• Pierre Dessuant: Béla Grunberger - biography on the website of the Société Psychoanalytique de Paris (French)