Detlev von Uslar

Detlev von Uslar (* 17th March 1926 in Hamburg ) is a German philosopher and psychologist and emeritus professor of psychology and philosophical foundations of psychology at the University of Zurich .

Life

Detlev von Uslar spent his childhood in Hamburg and from 1932 in Schwerin in Mecklenburg , where he attended the Fridericianum from 1935 to 1943 . After military service and Soviet imprisonment, he studied philosophy with Nicolai Hartmann and theology with Friedrich Gogarten in Göttingen from 1946 to 1950 , then until 1953 in Freiburg im Breisgau philosophy with Martin Heidegger and Wilhelm Szilasi as well as psychology with Robert Heiß and Hans Bender . In 1953 he received his doctorate in philosophy on the subject of "The essence of encounter". In the same year he married Else Möss, with whom he had three daughters. In 1960 he made a diploma in psychology.

From 1962 to 1966 he earned his living as a traffic psychological expert at the medical-psychological institute for traffic and industry in Freiburg im Breisgau. At the same time he researched the psychology of dreams, about which he published his first book in 1964. In 1967 he was appointed to the University of Zurich, where he was professor for psychology and the philosophical foundations of psychology until 1994. At the same time he was head of the department for anthropological psychology. He has guided large numbers of students through the course. He also held regular lectures at the University of Applied Psychology and the CG Jung Institute and was an advisory member of various supervisory bodies. In 1987 he was appointed by Dr. Margrit Egnér Foundation honored. Since his retirement, von Uslar has continued to give lectures at the University of Zurich.

Focus in research and teaching

In his research and teaching activities, Detlev von Uslar dealt with numerous topics, with dream and dream interpretation , encounter and relationship, body and organism, history of philosophical psychology, psychology of art and architecture , psychology of expression , depth psychology , psychology of the situation, role of interpretation in psychology and graphology .

“What distinguishes Detlev from Uslar's wide-ranging work is its universality. He sees the human being as a bodily being to which language, religion, art, wakefulness and dream, consciousness and the unconscious belong. This diversity establishes a way of thinking that primarily seeks to connect, especially between the psychotherapeutic schools of Sigmund Freud and CG Jung, but also the analysis of existence by Ludwig Binswanger and Medard Boss. "

- Tages-Anzeiger , Zurich, March 17, 2006

Works

• The dream as world: investigations into the ontology and phenomenology of the dream. Neske, Pfullingen 1964, 3rd edition, Hirzel, Stuttgart 1990, 263 pp.
• The reality of the psychic: corporeality, temporality. Neske, Pfullingen, 1969, 105 pp.
• Psychology and the world. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1972, 139 pp.
• Psychology of religion. Classen, Zurich 1978, 104 pp.
• Being and interpretation. Basic questions of psychology. Vol. 1 , Hirzel, Stuttgart 1987, 191 pp.
• Being and interpretation. The image of man in psychology. Vol. 2 , Hirzel, Stuttgart 1989, 191 pp.
• Being and interpretation. Human being and being. Vol. 3 , Hirzel, Stuttgart 1991, 182 pp.
• Being and interpretation. Dream, encounter, interpretation. Vol. 4 , Hirzel, Stuttgart 1994, 214 pp.
• What is soul Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1999, 230 pp.
• Diary of the Unconscious: Adventure in the Realm of Dreams. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2003, 260 pp. + CD-ROM, series of 6000 dreams, 260 pp.
• Dream and encounter: the transference game in the history of relationships. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2004, 254 pp.
• Body, world, soul: highlights in the history of philosophical psychology, from the beginnings to the present. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2005, 257 pp.
• Developmental psychology as reflected in the drawing of children and young people. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2006, 206 pp.
• Existence and life story. Man and his world in the mirror of psychology. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2007, 271 pp.
• The built world. Psychology of architecture. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2008, 271 pp.
• Dream as an event: psychology of dream contents and dream symbols. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2010, 291 pp.
• Snapshots: moments in life, time events, contemporaries. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2012, 223 pp.
• The weaving dance: dreams and days. An exchange of letters. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2014, 279 pp.

literature

• Advice, diagnostics and therapy in anthropological psychology. Festschrift for Detlev von Uslar's 60th birthday. Edited by Urs Imoberdorf and Urs Reichlin, Hirzel, Stuttgart 1986, 208 pp.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tages-Anzeiger , March 17, 2006