Edgar Herzog

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Edgar Friedrich Herzog (* December 24, 1891 in Berlin ; † April 3, 1973 in Munich) was a German psychotherapist and individual psychologist .

Life

Herzog received his doctorate in 1922 at the University of Leipzig with the dissertation " Benjamin Disraeli , Earl of Beaconsfield, as an imperialist". He then worked as a teacher and educator at the Dresden State School until he had to retire from the civil service career in 1934 because of his opposition to National Socialism. In 1943 he married the psychotherapist Johanna Dürck . By Gustav Schmaltz Duke was introduced to Jungian psychology.

At the 7th Congress for Psychotherapy, which took place in Bad Nauheim in March 1935 and was chaired by the International General Medical Society for Psychotherapy under Carl Gustav Jung and the German General Medical Society for Psychotherapy, Herzog named the "reintegration of the mentally ill into the national community" as its goal to powerful cooperation, that is, the healthy person in the healthy people ". In addition, during the Nazi era , Herzog worked at the German Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy and, together with Fritz Künkel, represented the individual psychologists . He regularly wrote articles for the u. a. Eduard Spranger and Wilhelm Flitner published educational magazine " Die Erziehungs ".

After the Second World War, Herzog worked as a training manager at the Munich Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy. He and his wife brought Karlfried Graf Dürckheim , who had been repatriated in the FRG after his release, together with his girlfriend Maria Hippius back into psychotherapeutic circles. Edgar Herzog later also gave lectures at the Carl Gustav Jung Institute in Küsnacht .

Together with his wife Johanna Herzog-Dürck, he developed the scientific basis for personal psychotherapy, the hallmark of which is to grasp the conflicts between people and the basic conditions of their existence in neurotic diseases.

He found greater resonance with his work “Psyche und Tod. Changes in the image of death in myth and in the dreams of today's people ”, published in English under the title“ Psyche and Death: Death-Demons in Folklore, Myths, and Modern Dreams ”, which was based on lectures and lectures in Munich at the CG Jung Institute.

Publications (selection)

  • Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, as an imperialist , dissertation, University of Leipzig, 1922
  • Educational difficulties at school age , Triltsch, Würzburg, 1940
  • Personality problems of the teacher in education , Kaiser, Munich, 1952
  • Psyche and death. Changes in the image of death in the myth and dreams of today's people , Rascher, Zurich, 1960
  • Psyche and Death: Death-Demons in Folklore, Myths, and Modern Dreams , Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1966

literature

  • Almuth Bruder-Bezzel: History of Individual Psychology , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen, 1999
  • Barbara Probst: On the reception of psychoanalysis in the educational journal "Die Erziehungs" - a historical study of psychoanalysis in academic pedagogy in the German-speaking area from 1925 to 1943 ; Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlfried Graf Dürckheim, His Contribution to Spirituality ( Memento from August 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), by Günter W. Remmert
personal data
SURNAME Duke, Edgar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herzog, Edgar Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychotherapist and individual psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH after 1965