Franz Keller (psychologist)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Franz Keller (born May 19, 1913 ; † September 12, 1991 ) was a Swiss Marxist psychologist , marriage counselor and publicist .

Life

Keller grew up in Solothurn . He studied psychology , philosophy and literary history at the universities of Zurich , Bern , Munich , Vienna and Paris . In 1938 he received his doctorate in Bern with the thesis Vanity and Wahn: Vanity as a weakness of character and as delusions of grandeur and paranoia . The works of Leonhard Ragaz and Carl Gustav Jung influenced him. From 1938 he worked as a psychologist and graphologist in Ascona and Zurich .

Keller was a member of the SP , the Switzerland – Soviet Union , the Switzerland – GDR and the Swiss peace movement . He was also a member of the Presidium (its section) of the World Peace Council . Together with Theo Pinkus , he edited the independent socialist magazine Zeitdienst . He also wrote for the profile and the forward . In the 1960s and / or 1970s he published a "Psychological Seminar" as an "exclusive series" in the city of Bern's magazine Lebensberater .

In the 1950s he stayed several times for long periods in the GDR . In the 1960s, Keller was secretary of the Bern-Mittelland regional committee of the movement against nuclear armament in Switzerland . From 1966, Keller was a speaker at Junkere 37 . He was also a member of the Swiss Association for Unpunished Abortion and, together with Regula Beck and Martin Herrmann, was responsible for the Bern section. In 1983, Keller campaigned against the closure of the Bern office of the Soviet news agency Novosti by Federal Councilor Rudolf Friedrich . He spent a lot of time in his "Fermate" chalet in Feutersoey near Gstaad . Until the end of his life he tried to combine Christianity and Marxism.

He was married and had a daughter, Verena Keller, born in 1945 . Franz Keller is buried in a "common grave in the Bremgarten cemetery in Bern".

Quote

«There is a sermon in the Bible that at no point contradicts mature reason: the Sermon on the Mount ! If, in the spirit of Constantin von Monakow and Pierre Janet , the doctor thinks through to the end of the commitment to preservation of life, it is imperative that he arrives at an ideal of life such as Jesus gave us. If the soul-savvy researches the sources of the most lasting happiness with the methods of CG Jung , Oskar Pfister and Carlo Sganzini , he will find them in the Beatitudes. And if the thinker asks about the essence of God in accordance with the radical epistemological criticism of Robert Roetschi or Fritz Medicus , he will be gripped by the truth: Blessed are the pure of heart, for they will see God! "

- In: On mental equilibrium: reflections on mental hygiene and religion. A. Francke, Bern 1945, p. 8.

Publications (selection)

Monographs
  • Psychological slow motion: the recent past through a psychologist's magnifying glass. Solothurn: Buchdruckerei Vogt – Schild AG, 1941 OCLC 637240542
  • How do you find yourself? Possibilities of marriage initiation. Riggenbach, Basel 1942 ?. OCLC 601084245
  • On mental balance: reflections on mental hygiene and religion. A. Francke, Bern 1945. OCLC 257868013
  • Get free from inhibitions. Riggenbach, Basel 1954. OCLC 36110635
  • The modern marriage. A timely answer to the sexual question. (1st part: "The sick marriage and its healing"; 2nd part: "The healthy marriage") Humata Verlag, (Münzgraben 4 in) Bern 1954. OCLC 14665918
  • The fate of western culture. Manuscript, 70 pages, Swiss Social Archives Ar. 128.5
Article / book chapter
  • The duties of the psychiatrist: lecture. In: Sunday paper of the Solothurner Zeitung . 15/1943.
  • The right choice of spouse: An examination of the sympathy theories of Kretschmer , Szondi and Jung . In: Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Professor Dr. phil. Heinrich Hanselmann . Rotapfel, Erlenbach / Zurich 1945, pp. 39–47. OCLC 603859875
  • The Kramer case . In: NZZ of August 17, 1951, sheet 6 (compare time service of June 16, 1951)
  • The seven layers of the person. In: Ordo Humanus , publishing house of the international community for psychology and publishing house youth service, 4/1974.
  • Municipalities: models for the future? The judgment of new forms of sexuality and community life in socialism. In: National newspaper on the weekend. June 8, 1974.
  • Changes in Psychotherapy in the 20th Century. In: Ordo Humanus , No. 104, 2/1975, pp. 41–53, Lucerne / Erstfeld: Verlag der Internationale Gemeinschaft für Psychologie und Verlag Jugenddienst (separate print) OCLC 313085020
  • Psychoanalysis of the Fall. In: Henri von Schumacher , Franz Keller. Incarnation or Fall! (Separately printed from the) magazine Ordo Humanus , Verlag der Internationale Gemeinschaft für Psychologie und Verlag Jugenddienst, Luzern / Beromünster, No. 106, 3/1975 OCLC 82512938
  • On the neuroses of Freud and Jung : problems and problem projections of the great psychologists. With a comment by August E. Hohler . In: nz on the weekend. The weekly political and cultural edition of the National-Zeitung . No. 254, August 16, 1975, pages 1 and 5.
  • Enlightenment and Romanticism in Depth Psychology. In: Ordo Humanus , No. 112, 2/1976, Luzern / Beromünster: Publishing house of the international community for psychology and publishing house youth service. OCLC 428142022
  • Utopia Island - a nowhere? In: Basler Magazin (weekend supplement of the Basler Zeitung ) No. 52 of December 29, 1979, pages 6-7.
Contributions to the discussion
  • With Theo Pinkus : Are the big newspapers enough for us? Invitation to Junkere 37 , 176th evening of March 29, 1968.
  • Progressive or pubescent? On the psychology of revolutionary youth. Invitation to Junkere 37 , 184th evening of May 17, 1968.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lukas Dettwiler (creator of the inventory). Short biography of Franz Keller in the “Nonconformism Archive Fredi Lerch .” Swiss Literature Archive , 2011.
  2. ^ "Peace movement criticizes 'absurd mastermind theory'." In: Basler Zeitung No. 103 of May 4, 1983, p. 13 (with photo)
  3. ↑ Keller adds there that he tried to insert “a vitalistic theory of affects” into his thought structure, which is supposed to tie in with “the conceptions of Spinoza , Darwin and Cannon ” and give the expression of feelings a deeper meaning.
  4. ↑ Review by Fernando Pedroni in Genus , Volume 11, No. 1/4 (1955), pp. 278–279. ( OCLC 4896904732 )
  5. ↑ See also the Staatsschutzfiche der Junkere 37 in the Swiss Federal Archives .
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1913
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1991