Goldy Parin-Matthèy

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Elisabeth Charlotte "Goldy" Parin-Matthèy (born May 30, 1911 in Graz , Austria-Hungary ; died April 25, 1997 in Zurich ) was a Swiss psychoanalyst and anarchist .

Life

Charlotte Matthèy was born in Graz in 1911 as the daughter of August and Franziska Matthéy-Guenet, née Dunkl, into a wealthy Swiss family of Huguenot descent. Her father was a painter. The family owned a lithography factory - the renowned Matthéy lithographic company. With the sale of the factory in the early 1920s, the family lost all of their assets.

Goldy Matthèy attended elementary school in Graz, the girls' high school and then the ceramics class at the Graz School of Applied Arts . She later trained as a medical laboratory and X-ray assistant at the Graz University Eye Clinic .

In her youth, she had contact with anti-fascists, socialists, communists and anarchists in Graz artist and intellectual circles, including Wolfgang Benndorf , Herbert Eichholzer and Thomas Ring . Her best friend at that time was the future artist Maria Biljan-Bilger , whom she met at the arts and crafts school and who married her cousin Ferdinand Bilger in 1933. In 1933 she went to Vienna and worked there until 1934 in a home for young people who were difficult to educate, run by the Austrian pedagogue and psychoanalyst August Aichhorn . She then went back to the job she had learned at Graz University Hospital.

In 1937 she joined the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War with Ferdinand Bilger and other anti-fascists and worked under the cover name "Liselot" as a laboratory assistant at the X-ray Institute in Albacete . In 1938, the brigadists relocated the central laboratory and hospital to Vic in northern Spain . In 1939 she left Spain with the last employees of the Centrale Sanitaire Internationale for France. There she was interned for about two months in the St. Zacharie women's camp near Marseille .

In April 1939 Goldy Matthèy came to Zurich and ran a hematology laboratory there with interruptions until 1952 . She also met her future husband here, the young medical student Paul Parin . From September 1944 to October 1945 she worked with Paul Parin - meanwhile as a surgeon - and five other doctors as volunteers in Yugoslavia to provide humanitarian aid in Tito's partisan army in the fight against the Wehrmacht and the Italian army. Their mission was organized by the Swiss medical and medical aid agency Centrale Sanitaire Suisse , which is now called medico international schweiz , which was founded during the Spanish Civil War . After the end of the war, in 1946, together with Fritz Morgenthaler and other employees, she again took part in the establishment of a polyclinic in Prijedor in Bosnia , organized by the Centrale Sanitaire Suisse as part of the Swiss donation .

Goldy Matthèy completed a psychoanalytic training in Zurich by 1952 and then opened a psychoanalytic practice together with Paul Parin and Fritz Morgenthaler. In 1955 she married Paul Parin. In 1958 she founded the Psychoanalytical Seminar in Zurich with her husband, Morgenthaler and Jacques Berna . However, it only participated informally in the training company, since it rejected the school-regulated forms of learning and training.

From 1954 to 1971 she undertook several research trips to West Africa together with Fritz and Ruth Morgenthaler and Paul Parin. There they examined the soul life of the Dogon and Anyi (Agni) using the psychoanalytic conversation technique . With the studies that emerged there, The Whites Think Too Much of 1963 and Fear Your Neighbor Like You from 1971, she and her colleagues founded the German-speaking tradition of ethno-psychoanalysis .

From 1952 to 1997 Goldy Parin-Matthèy was a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association and the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis.

Act

Goldy Parin-Matthèy understood her psychoanalytic work as a "continuation of the guerrilla with other means". For them, psychoanalysis possessed a subversive and socially critical force, which should aim to strengthen a person's autonomous powers and achieve greater independence from socializing factors.

“I've always been a moral anarchist: everyone is solely responsible for themselves. I believe that the most important thing that an analyst in training has to acquire and experience is that he is solely responsible. "

- Goldy Parin-Matthèy

Writings and works

  • The child prodigy and his failure . Swiss Journal for Psychology and its Applications 21 (3), 1962, pp. 247–267
  • Not like the mother. About the role of women and femininity. In Parin and Parin-Matthèy 1986, pp. 165-174
  • Be old. In Karola Brede u. a. (Ed.): Liberation for resistance. Essays on feminism, psychoanalysis and politics. Margarete Mitscherlich on her 70th birthday. Frankfurt / M. 1987, pp. 179-182
  • The whites think too much. Psychoanalytic investigations among the Dogon in West Africa. ; with Paul Parin and Fritz Morgenthaler. Atlantis, Zurich 1963; NA EVA, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 978-3-434-50602-7
  • Fear your neighbor as yourself. Psychoanalysis and society based on the Agni model in West Africa. ; with Paul Parin and Fritz Morgenthaler. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1971; NA Giessen 2006, ISBN 3-89806-462-X
  • Subject in contradiction ; with Paul Parin. Syndicate, Frankfurt am Main 1986; Psychosocial, Giessen 2000, ISBN 3-89806-033-0

Movie

literature

  • Johannes Reichmayr: Parin-Matthèy, Goldy. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 549–554.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sale of the CHROMO-LITHOGRAPHICAL KUNSTANSTALT, ETIKETTENFABRIK AND STONE PRINTING AUGUST MATTHEY to Alfred Wall [1]
  2. ↑ On the importance of fear and the unconscious in the field research process , diploma thesis by Christiana Breinl. Pp. 22-33; (pdf; 737 kB); accessed: September 24, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Parin-Matthèy, Goldy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parin-Matthèy, Elisabeth Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychoanalyst and anarchist
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1997
Place of death Zurich