Ernst Bernhard

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Memorial plaque in Meierottostr. 7 in Berlin

Ernst Bernhard (born September 18, 1896 in Berlin , † June 29, 1965 in Rome ) was a German psychoanalyst .

Life

Coming from a Jewish family, Bernhard first studied medicine and became a pediatrician; later he turned to analytical psychology .

From 1935 he was a stateless person and worked in Zurich with Carl Gustav Jung . According to the Nuremberg Race Laws , like Freud, Bernhard wanted to emigrate to England, but was rejected because of his esoteric interests such as palmistry and astrology . Instead, he settled in Rome with his wife. There he became part of a group around the Freud student Edoardo Weiss.

In 1940 Bernhard was arrested and imprisoned in a concentration camp in Calabria , from which he was released the following year thanks to the intervention of Giuseppe Tucci . Bernhard returned to Rome and lived in hiding during the Nazi occupation. After the end of the war he resumed his work as a psychoanalyst and treated a. a. Federico Fellini , Natalia Ginzburg , Giorgio Manganelli , Cristina Campo , Roberto Bazlen , Luciano Emmer , Vittorio De Seta and Adriano Olivetti .

His students included Aldo Carotenuto, Mario Trevi , Bianca Garufi, Gianfranco Draghi, Carlo L. Iandelli, Silvana Radogna, Claudio Modigliani, Paolo Aite, Marcello Pignatelli, Michele Pignatelli, Mariella Loriga, Francesco Montanari, Gianfranco Tedeschi, Mario Montefonzo, Silvia , Mario Moreno, Enzo Lezzi, Enrico Rasio, Francesco Minozzi and Hélène Erba-Tissot.

Individual evidence

  1. Luciana Marinangeli: I Ching di Ernst Bernhard , La Lepre, Rome, 2015, p. 134.
  2. Enrica Garzilli: L'esploratore del Duce. Le avventure di Giuseppe Tucci e la politica italiana in Oriente da Mussolini a Andreotti: Con il carteggio di Giulio Andreotti , Milan, Memori / Asiatica Association, 2012, vol. 1, p. 373
  3. Ernst Bernhard: Mitobiografia , Milan, Adeplhi, 1969