Franz Beda Riklin

Annunciation (1915/1916)

Rheinau (1920)

Franz Beda Riklin (born April 22, 1878 in St. Gallen ; died December 4, 1938 in Küsnacht ) was a Swiss psychiatrist and painter .

Life

Franz Riklin came from a strictly Catholic family. He studied medicine in Geneva , with Gustav Aschaffenburg in Heidelberg , there also experimental psychology with Emil Kraepelin , and in Zurich . From 1902 to 1904 he was an assistant in the Burgholzli Clinic in Zurich, where he received his doctorate under Eugen Bleuler . He conducted association studies and introduced CG Jung to this research area. He published the results in 1905 together with Jung as Experimental Studies on the Associations of Healthy People . During Riklin's military service in 1903, Jung occupied the designated assistant doctor position at Burghölzli, so that Riklin had to leave research and move to the Rheinau Clinic . There he also received the office of cantonal inspector for insane care .

In 1906 Riklin married Sophia Fiechter, a granddaughter of the Basel doctor Karl Gustav Jung and thus a cousin of Carl Gustav Jung. Fiechter was Protestant, however, so that Riklin's family disowned him because of this mesalliance. They had four children, the son Franz Niklaus Riklin (1909–1969) later worked for Jung and edited his writings. The Riklin-Fiechter couple built a house in Küsnacht in 1909 .

Riklin was interested in the work of Sigmund Freud and took part in the first congress of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association in Salzburg in 1908, where he also gave a lecture. In 1909 he opened the first psychoanalytically oriented medical practice in Zurich.

Riklin was appointed secretary of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) when it was founded in 1910 and was thus also the editor of the IPA's correspondence sheet. After the rift between Jung and Freud in 1913, Riklin also withdrew from working with Freud and in 1914 resigned from the IPA. He also distanced himself increasingly from Jung.

In March 1912 Riklin met the painter Augusto Giacometti in Florence , the two became friends and Giacometti gave him painting lessons. In 1913, Giacometti made the mosaic Saint Francis of Assisi in Riklin's house in Küsnacht. During the First World War, Riklin was drafted as a military doctor. After the war he and Giacometti became members of the artist group “Das Neue Leben” and in 1919 they took part in an exhibition of the group at the Kunsthaus Zürich alongside Hans Arp , Francis Picabia and Sophie Taeuber . Riklin's picture The Annunciation from 1915/1916 came into the holdings of the Kunsthaus Zürich. Riklin seriously pursued painting alongside his medical work and was accepted into the professional association «Society of Swiss Painters, Sculptors and Architects» (GSMBA). Giacometti won him over between 1923 and 1925 for the execution of his frescoes in Amtshaus I in Zurich, a painting technique that was new territory for both of them.

Fonts (selection)

• Elevation of epileptic amnesia through hypnosis. In: Journal for Psychology and Neurology , Vol. I, 1902. Barth, Leipzig 1903. Diss. University of Zurich, 1903.
• with CG Jung: Diagnostic Association Studies. I. Contribution. Experimental studies on associations of healthy people. In: Journal für Psychologie und Neurologie, Vol. III., Pp. 55-83, 145-164, 193-214, 283-308, and Vol. IV., Pp. 24-67.
• Wish fulfillment and symbolism in fairy tales. Publishing house bookseller Hugo Heller , Leipzig / Vienna 1908.
• Impressions from England. Rascher, Zurich 1918.

literature

• Hans Rudolf Wilhelm: The psychiatrist and painter Franz Beda Riklin: a forensics. In: Schweizer Monatshefte , 81 (2001), pp. 19–22. doi: 10.5169 / seals-166499
• Hans Rudolf Wilhelm: Sigmund Freud's creeds: an epochal letter to the psychiatrist Franz Beda Riklin. Pressler, Hürtgenwald 2008, ISBN 978-3-87646-112-0 .
• Riklin, Franz , in: Élisabeth Roudinesco ; Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms. Translation from French. Springer, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , p. 857.

Web links

Commons : Franz Beda Riklin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Franz Beda Riklin in the catalog of the German National Library (unadjusted inventory with writings by his son)
• Literature by and about Franz Beda Riklin in the bibliographic database WorldCat (unadjusted stock with writings of his son)
• Riklin, Franz Beda. In: Sikart (status: 2019), accessed on October 27, 2019.
• Review notes on Hans Rudolf Wilhelm: Sigmund Freud's creeds at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Correspondence sheet of the International Psychoanalytic Association
2. ↑ Augusto Giacometti in artinwords
3. ^ Hans F. Schweers: Paintings in museums: Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Catalog of the exhibited and depot works. 3: Part 1, artists and their works. R-Z. Saur, Munich 2008, p. 1252.