Bernd Nitzschke

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Bernd Nitzschke (born June 2, 1944 in Dresden ) is a German psychoanalyst , historian of psychoanalysis and science journalist .

Life

Bernd Nitzschke studied psychology , philosophy , sociology and political science at the Universities of Erlangen , Munich and Marburg . In addition to his psychotherapeutic practice, he works as a science journalist - mainly in the field of the history of psychoanalysis.

Nitzschke received his diploma in psychology in 1976 and received his doctorate three years later in Bremen with a thesis on Freud and Schopenhauer. During and after his studies he worked as a science journalist for Die Zeit and as a lecturer for the Rowohlt and Kindler publishing houses . 1977–78 he was editor of the journal Psychologie heute , 1979–87 research assistant at the “Clinical Institute for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy” at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

Nitzschke is co-founder of the periodical Luzifer-Amor - magazine for the history of psychoanalysis, which has been published since 1988, and is a member of the editorial team of Werkblatt - magazine for psychoanalysis and social criticism . He is also co-editor of the journal Psychoanalyse - Texte zur Sozialforschung .

Since 1988 he has been working as a psychoanalyst (DGPT) in his own practice in Düsseldorf . He is a training analyst, supervisor and lecturer at the "Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Düsseldorf eV" and was (until the institute was closed in 2013) supervisor and lecturer at the Institute for Psychotherapeutic Research, Method Development and Further Education at the University of Cologne .

His main research interests are: masculinity and sexuality, history of psychoanalysis, biography research, literature and psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic treatment theory, the life and work of Wilhelm Reich , anti-Semitism .

Works

As an author:

  • The destruction of sensuality. Kindler, Munich 1974; New edition: Matthes & Seitz, Munich 1981.
  • The real inner world. Comments on psychological reality in Freud and Schopenhauer. Kindler, Munich 1978.
  • Fears of men, wishes of men. Matthes & Seitz, Munich 1980.
  • Goethe is dead, long live culture. Foreword in: Paul Julius Möbius : About the pathological in Goethe. Matthes & Seitz, Munich 1982.
  • From the coldness of thought and the warmth of the body. Reflections on feelings. Matthes & Seitz, Munich 1984.
  • Your own body and that of another. Fragments of a psychoanalytic theory of feelings and relationships. Bankruptcy book, Tübingen 1985.
  • Sexuality and masculinity. Between desire for symbiosis and violence. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1988.
  • Freud and Academic Psychology. Contributions to a historical controversy. Psychologie VerlagsUnion, Weinheim 1989.
  • Love as a duel ... and other attempts to risk your head and heart. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1991.
  • Us and death. Essays on Sigmund Freud's life and work. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996.
  • Departure to Inner Africa. Essays on Sigmund Freud and the roots of psychoanalysis. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998.
  • The I as an experiment. Essays on Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis in the 20th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000.

As editor:

  • On foot through your head - hiking in the mountains of thought. Selected writings of Herbert Silberer . Mixing up his life and work. Edition Diskord, Tübingen 1988.
  • with Karl Fallend: The "Fall" Wilhelm Reich. Contributions to the relationship between psychoanalysis and politics. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1997. New edition: Psychosozial, Gießen 2002.
  • with Werner Felber , Albrecht Götz von Olenhusen and Gottfried Maria Heuer: Psychoanalysis and Expressionism. 7th International Otto Gross Congress Dresden. LiteraturWwissenschaft.de, Marburg 2010.
  • The psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud. Concepts and Terms. VS, Wiesbaden 2011.
  • with Roland Kaufhold : Jewish identities in Germany after the Holocaust (= psychoanalysis. Texts on social research. 16th year, no. 1). 2012.
  • with Bertram von der Stein: Psychoanalysis in Turkey - Celal Odağ on his 85th birthday (= psychoanalysis. Texts on social research. 21st year, no.1 ). 2017.

literature

  • Zvi Lothane : Book review. Sigmund Freud's resistant legacy ... Bernd Nitzschke on his 70th birthday , in: International Forum of Psychoanalysis. German Themes in Psychoanalysis , Vol 27, No. 1, Routledge 2018, pp. 70–72.

Honor

  • June 6, 2014: “Sigmund Freud's resistant legacy,” Symposium on the 70th birthday of Bernd Nitzschke

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sigmund Freud's resistant legacy: Symposium 70th birthday of Bernd Nitschke , accessed on January 16, 2019

See also

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personal data
SURNAME Nitzschke, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychoanalyst, historian of psychoanalysis and science journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden