Ernst Blum (psychoanalyst)

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Ernst Blum (born November 15, 1892 in Bruchsal , † January 30, 1981 in Bern ; resident in Zurich ) was a German - Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst .

Live and act

Ernst Blum came from a wealthy Jewish merchant family from Bruchsal. He spent his childhood in Bruchsal, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart until the family emigrated to Zurich around 1900 . At the Realgymnasium , which he attended from the age of 13, he passed the Matura . Blum studied medicine at the University of Zurich from the winter semester 1911/12 to the winter semester 1917/18 , with an interruption in the summer semester 1914, which he spent at the University of Montpellier . In 1917 he passed the state examination , after which he worked for the neurophysiologist Constantin von Monakow . In 1919 he received his doctorate under Walter Rudolf Hess . He then went to Eugen Bleuler to train in psychiatry .

At the end of his studies he met Elsa Alide Sapas, who had come to Switzerland from Estonia to study and who was also training in neurophysiology and psychiatry. In 1922 they moved to Vienna , where Blum was analyzed by Sigmund Freud and his fiancée by Otto Rank and they were accepted into the Wednesday Society. When they returned to Switzerland, they took up residence in Bern and married in 1923. They had three daughters together. Blum worked at various clinics in the Bern area. In 1940 his wife and daughters were arrested while visiting Estonia and deported to Siberia . The daughters were able to return after three years, and his wife died in the gulag . In 1941 Ernst Blum received his habilitation for psychiatry and neurology at the University of Bern . He worked as a senior physician at the Psychiatric Polyclinic and taught at the University of Bern until 1957. With his father's fortune, he built a small private sanatorium. As he got older, he withdrew and practiced in his private practice. In 1981 Ernst Blum died in an old people's home in Bern.

Blum was a representative of the analysis of existence . In his scientific work he dealt with the border areas of philosophy, literary studies and psychoanalysis. In particular, he dealt with phenomenology .

Fonts (selection)

  • The cross-sectional relationships between trunk and branches in the arterial system. In: Pflüger's archive for the entire physiology of humans and animals . Vol. 175 (1919), pp. 1-19, doi: 10.1007 / BF01722139 ( digitized ; dissertation, University of Zurich, 1919).
  • On the psychology of studies and exams. In: International Journal of Psychoanalysis . Vol. 12 (1926), H. 3, pp. 400-413 ( digitized version ).
  • Conscience of recovery and social security. In: Swiss magazine for hygiene and archive for welfare . Vol. (1931), Issue 7/8, pp. 733-750.
  • About stupidity. In: You . Vol. 4 (1944), H. 9, pp. 21-24, doi: 10.5169 / seals-305206 .
  • The life crisis of the mature and aging person and how to overcome it. In: Problems of the turning point in life (= life problems of the present. Vol. 3). Gerber, Schwarzenburg 1947.
  • Basics of the psychotherapeutic situation. In: Psyche . Vol. 6 (1952/53), pp. 536-556.
  • Freudian psychoanalysis. In: Erich Stern (ed.): Psychotherapy in the present: directions, tasks, problems, applications (= handbook of clinical psychology. Vol. 2). Rascher, Zurich 1958, pp. 17–67.
  • Freud and the conscience. In: The conscience. (= Studies from the CG Jung Institute, Zurich. Vol. 7). Rascher, Zurich / Stuttgart 1958, pp. 167-184.

literature

  • Ernst Blum on his 70th birthday on November 15, 1962. In: Der Psychologe. Vol. 14 (1962), H. 11, p. 401.
  • Manfred Pohlen, Arthur Trenkel (ed.): Psychotherapy as dialogue. For Ernst Blum's 80th birthday. Hans Huber, Bern / Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-456-30566-4 (with bibliography by Ernst Blum).
  • Manfred Pohlen: Freud's analysis. Ernst Blum's meeting minutes. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2006, ISBN 978-3-498-05303-1 ( reading sample; PDF; 145 kB ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 13th edition (1980). Vol. 1, p. 313.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Manfred Pohlen: Freud's analysis. Ernst Blum's meeting minutes. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2006, ISBN 978-3-498-05303-1 , pp. 24-29 ( reading sample; PDF; 145 kB ).
  3. ↑ a b c d Blum, Ernst. In: The lecturers of the Bern University of Applied Sciences 1528–1984. University of Bern, Bern 1984, entry 4.4.108 ( PDF , accessed April 8, 2018).
  4. ↑ a b c d Blum, Ernst , Matriculation Edition of the University of Zurich, accessed on April 8, 2018.
  5. ↑ Entry of the dissertation , NEBIS library catalog , accessed on April 8, 2018.
  6. ^ Entry on document on the deportation of Elsa Alide Blum and her three daughters in the Estonian National Archives, Archive Portal Europe , accessed on April 8, 2018.
  7. ↑ The Analyst and His Century. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 20, 2006, accessed April 8, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Blum, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruchsal
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1981
Place of death Bern