Edmund Bergler

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Edmund Bergler in the Vienna Psychoanalytical Outpatient Clinic in 1922 (standing, 1st from the right).
Photo: Ludwig Gutmann

Edmund Bergler (born July 20, 1899 in Kolomea , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; died February 6, 1962 in Brooklyn ) was an Austrian-American psychoanalyst .

Life

Edmund Bergler was the son of the pharmacist Alexander Bergler and Ernestine Schapira, who moved to Vienna with him in 1913. In 1917 he became a soldier in the First World War and after the end of the war studied medicine at the University of Vienna . After 1926 he specialized as an internist and practiced from 1927. He attended the Vienna Psychoanalytical Institute and did a training analysis with Wilhelm Reich and Helene Deutsch . He worked in the "Socialist Society for Sexual Counseling and Sexual Research " founded by Marie Frischauf and Reich in Vienna in 1928 . From 1933 to 1935 he was a senior physician in the clinic of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association . In 1929 he married the Viennese photographer Marianne Leitner-Blumberger (1897–1980).

After the annexation of Austria , Bergler and his wife had to emigrate from the German Reich in November 1938. They reached the American east coast via France. Bergler managed to settle down as a psychiatrist in New York City and became a US citizen in 1943. In the next few years he published a large number of writings in English, in the end 27 books, 24 of them in English, were counted, plus 300 magazine articles. The archive of the Edmund and Marianne Bergler Foundation manages a further 20 book manuscripts. The books, some of which were written for a mass audience, also achieved new editions, and Bergler's contributions were also printed in Coronet , Cosmopolitan and Charm magazines . In 1958 Harper's Bazaar asked Are you Money Neurotic? . For the professional world, Bergler researched and published the basic concepts of Freudian psychoanalysis, super-ego , masochism and oral phase , as well as the sexual coldness of women, the impotence of men, homosexuality and also humor. The main works are The Basic Neurosis (1949) and The Superego (1952).

Bergler became a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and had been a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society since 1942 , but had no friends there because of his stubbornness. Bergler has taught at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital , Cooper Union, and the University of Cincinnati .

In the opinion of the very few Bergler adepts, Bergler was the only one of Sigmund Freud's students who stayed on the trail of Freud's work and did not open his own school. Despite the multitude of his writings, Bergler is now considered forgotten.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Eduard Hitschmann : The sexual coldness of women: their nature and their treatment . Vienna: Verl. D. "Ars Medici", 1934
  • Talleyrand, Napoleon, Stendhal, Grabbe: psychoanalytical-biographical essays . Vienna: Internat. Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1935
  • On the psychology of the gambler , in: Imago , 22, 1936
  • The man's psychological impotence . Bern: Huber, 1937
  • Unhappy marriage and divorce . Introduction of AA Brill . New York: International Universities Press, 1946
  • The Psychopathology of Bargain Hunters , in: Journal of Clinical Pathology, 8, 1947, pp 623-627, translated by Eva Borneman: The Psychopathology of opportunity hunter , in: Ernest Borneman : psychoanalysis of money: a critical examination of psychoanalytic monetary theories . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1977, pp. 336-341.
  • The Battle of the Conscience . Washington, DC: Washington Institute of Medicine, 1948
  • Divorce Won't Help . New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948
  • Conflict in Marriage . New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949
  • The Basic Neurosis . New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949
  • The Writer and Psychoanalysis . Garden City: Doubleday and Co., 1949
  • Money and Emotional Conflicts . Doubleday and Co., 1951
  • Neurotic counterfeit sex . New York: Grune & Stratton, 1951
  • The Superego . New York: Grune & Stratton, 1952
  • Fashion and the Unconscious . New York: Robert Brunner, 1953
  • Kinsey's Myth of Female Sexuality: The Medical Facts. New York: Grune and Stratton, 1954
  • The Revolt of the Middle-Aged Man . New York: AA Wyn, 1954
    • The fifty-year-old revolt . From d. American. transfer by Alice Meyer. Zurich: Europa Verl., 1955
  • Homosexuality: Disease or Way of Life? New York: Hill and Wang, 1956
  • Laughter and the Sense of Humor . New York: Intercontinental Medical Book Corp., 1956
  • Psychology of Gambling . New York: Hill & Wang, 1957
  • Counterfeit Sex: Homosexuality, Impotence and Frigidity . New York: Grune and Stratton, 1958
  • Principles of Self-Damage . New York: The Philosophical Library, 1959
  • One Thousand Homosexuals: Conspiracy of Silence, or Curing and Deglamorizing Homosexuals? . Paterson, New Jersey: Pageant Books, 1959
  • Tensions can be reduced to nuisances . New York: Collier Books, 1960
  • Curable and Incurable Neurotics . New York: Liveright Pub. Co., 1961
  • with Joost Meerloo : Justice and Injustice . New York: Grune and Stratton, 1963
  • Parents Not Guilty . New York: Liveright Pub. Co., 1964

posthumously

  • Selected papers of Edmund Bergler, MD, 1933-1961. New York: Grune and Stratton, 1969
  • The Talent for Stupidity: The Psychology of the Bungler, the Incompetent, and the Ineffectual . 1998 ISBN 978-0-8236-6345-3

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Joseph Reppen: Edmund Bergler and Psychic Masochism ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / internationalpsychoanalysis.net
  2. ^ The Edmund Bergler Society of Toronto ( Memento August 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Bergler, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolomyja , Galicia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1962
Place of death Brooklyn