Felix de Mendelssohn

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Felix de Mendelssohn ( November 14, 1944 in London - October 7, 2016 in Vienna ) lived and worked as a psychoanalyst and group analyst in Vienna and Berlin .

Life

Coming from the Mendelssohn family from Jever , he was the son of the publicist Peter de Mendelssohn and his wife Hilde Spiel . Felix de Mendelssohn was a nephew of Felix von Mendelssohn, who also worked as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst . The focus of his work was his practice as a teaching, individual and group psychoanalyst as well as teaching at four institutions. At the Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna (SFU) he worked as head and lecturer for psychoanalysis and department head of psychotherapeutic schools. Felix de Mendelssohn also taught in Lviv , Kiev , Tel Aviv and Tokyo . He regularly led small and large analytical groups in Germany, Austria and the United States , published in German and English on the subjects of psychoanalytic cultural criticism , the technique of group analysis, and the political and social dimensions of group therapy . Until 2009 he headed the group psychoanalysis section of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy .

De Mendelssohn's family fled Vienna to England during the Nazi regime . Against this personal background he wrote in the book Flucht in die Freiheit (2006) about the consequences of emigration from a psychoanalytic point of view. He was married to the American philosopher Susan Neiman . He died on October 7, 2016 after a brief serious illness in Vienna and was buried in the Grinzing cemetery .

Act

Mendelssohn held the following teaching positions:

Publications

Books

  • The Psychoanalytic Subject: Writings on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis . Sigmund Freud Privatuniversitätsverlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902626233 .
  • The countermovement of angels: Psychoanalytical writings on art and society , Sigmund Freud Privatuniversitätsverlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902626240 .
  • The man who owed his life to a dream , Ecowin Verlag, Salzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-711000644 .
  • About decay , hochroth, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-902871-27-5 .

Contributions

  • “Heirs of Annihilation - Austrian Psychoanalysis and the Descendants of Survivors” in “1986 - The Year That Changed Austria” by Barbara Tóth and Hubertus Czernin (editors), ISBN 978-3-7076-0088-9
  • "Psychoanalysis as Enlightenment" in "The Great Taboo - Austria's Dealing with Its Past" by Anton Pelinka and Erika Weinzierl (eds.), 1987, 42–59 ISBN 3-7046-1094-1
  • "Shame, envy and compassion in the container of the institution: On the application of group analysis in social work" in "Unconscious in organizations - On the psychoanalysis of social systems" by Irmgard Eisenbach-Stangl and Michael Ertl (eds.), ISBN 3-85076-427 -3
  • “'Gangs, Crowds and Audiences' - About the representation of groups in dreams” in “The quiet voice of psychoanalysis is persistent” by Brigitte Grossmann-Garger (Ed.), ISBN 3-932133-89-7
  • “'Censorship' or 'caesura'? blockades and breaks in the inner world ” in “ Bonds, Breaks, Transitions ” by Gerda Mehta (Ed.), ISBN 3-85439-275-3
  • "The Jewish tradition in Freud's work" in "The fear of sexual desire - gender tensions in groups" , Mattes Verlag Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-930978-92-2
  • “Sex, money and politics. About the public, the secret and the private in the group analytical process ” in: Fear and Wut - Perpetrators and victims in groups, Mattes Verlag Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-930978-88-5
  • Anti-Semitism and its research from a psychoanalytic point of view. In: texte, 2/1996. 69-92
  • The Aesthetics of the Political in Group Analytic Process - The Wider Scope of Group Analysis, Foulkes Lecture, London 2000
  • Building a bridge to heaven ... Comments on the construction, destruction and reconstruction of the Tower of Babel, in: Freie Assoziation (Daedalus-Verlag), issue 1, 3rd year (2000)
  • Tyrannophobia - group leadership and the crisis of democracy. in: Freie Association (Daedalus-Verlag) issue 3, 5th year (2002)
  • Anger, hatred and anger in groups and masses , in: Imagination , Vol. 3 (2005)
  • How much gender identity do people need? , in: Yearbook for Group Analysis , Vol. 13 (2007)
  • The discomfort in cultural theory (from Sigmund Freud to René Girard) from the perspective of group analysis. in: Österr. Yearbook for Group Analysis , Vol. 3 (2009)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mendelssohn's short curriculum vitae (DOC; 30 kB) ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and curriculum vitae (PDF; 60 kB) ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sfu.ac.at @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sfu.ac.at
  2. ↑ Special Interest Sections: Group Analysis Section. International Association for Group Psychotherapy, archived from the original on November 21, 2008 ; accessed on October 9, 2016 .
  3. ^ Vita at the International Working Group for Group Analysis
personal data
SURNAME Mendelssohn, Felix de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian psycho and training analyst
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH London , UK
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 2016
Place of death Vienna