Hanns Sachs

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Hanns Sachs, around 1920

Hanns Sachs (born January 10, 1881 in Vienna , † January 10, 1947 in Boston ) was an Austrian psychoanalyst , lawyer and former employee of Sigmund Freud .

Life

Hanns Sachs was born as the son of the Jewish lawyer Samuel Sachs, who had moved to Vienna with his family from the Sudetenland. In 1899, Hanns Sachs passed the Matura examination at the Maximilians-Gymnasium in Vienna. He then studied law at the University of Vienna . There he received his doctorate in 1904 and established himself as a lawyer in Vienna. After reading Sigmund Freud's “Interpretation of Dreams”, he regularly attended Freud's lectures and in 1909 became a member of the Wednesday Society. In February 1911 he gave his first lecture here on the subject of “On the applicability of psychoanalysis to works of poetry”. At the 3rd International Congress of Psychoanalysts in Weimar in 1911, Hanns Sachs gave a lecture on the relationship between psychoanalysis and the humanities. From 1912 he was editor of the magazine " Imago - magazine for the application of psychoanalysis on the humanities" together with Otto Rank . In 1913 he became a member of the "Secret Committee", which consisted of himself, Karl Abraham , Sándor Ferenczi , Ernest Jones and Otto Rank . From 1920 to 1932 he lived and worked in Berlin, where he became the first training analyst, a. a. by Karen Horney and Frieda Reichmann , at all. In 1925 he and Karl Abraham were scientific advisors for Georg Wilhelm Pabst's silent film " Secrets of a Soul ".

Memorial plaque for Hanns Sachs in Mommsenstrasse 7 in Berlin, from the series With Freud in Berlin

Sachs recognized the dangers of National Socialism early on and emigrated to the USA, to Boston in 1932. From 1939 he published the magazine " American Imago " there.

Appreciation

In his writings, Sachs made significant contributions to the development of a psychoanalytic literary theory. Reiner Wild, who is preparing an edition of the literary studies and literary theoretical works of Hanns Sachs at the Chair of Modern German Studies at the University of Mannheim, writes: “In these works, whose center is the study“ Common Day Dreams ”published in 1924, he developed a psychoanalytic literary theory that the social character of the work of art - as a common, d. H. collective daydream - going out. "

In September 1989 the first Hanns Sachs Symposium took place in the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.

Works

  • The importance of psychoanalysis for the humanities. (with Otto Rank ). 1913.
  • Ars amandi psychoanalytica, or, Psychoanalytic rules of love. Reuss & Pollak, Berlin 1920.
  • Common daydreams. International psychoanalytical publishing house, Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1924.
  • Bubi Caligula: life story of Caligula. Bard, Berlin 1930. Reprint of the edition , Verlag Internationale Psychoanalyse, Weinheim 1991, with an afterword by Hans-Martin Lohmann .
  • The delay of the machine age. Imago Vol. XX Issue 1, Vienna 1934.
  • To the knowledge of human nature: A psychoanalytic guide for dealing with yourself and others. International Psychoanalytischer Verlag, Vienna 1936.
  • The creative unconscious: Studies in the psychoanalysis of art. Sci-Arts Publishers, Cambridge (Massachusetts) 1942.
  • Freud: Master and Friend. Imago, London 1945.
    • Translation: Freud: master and friend. Imago, London 1950.
  • Masks of love and life: The philosophical basis of psychoanalysis. Edited by Abraham Aaron Roback . Sci-Arts Publishers, Cambridge (Massachusetts) 1948.
    • Translation: Like Beings from an Alien Star: The Philosophical Background of Psychoanalysis. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2005, ISBN 3-89806-416-6 .
  • Psychoanalysis and Poetry. In: Bernd Urban (Hrsg.): Psychoanalysis and literary studies. Texts on the history of their relationships. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1973, ISBN 3-484-19023-X , p. 93 ff.

literature

  • Max Eitingon : Dr. Hanns Sachs 50 years , In: International Journal for Psychoanalysis (IZP), (17), 1931, p. 158f.
  • Fritz Moellenhoff: Hanns Sachs, 1881–1947: the creative unconscious. In: Franz Alexander , Samuel Eisenstein, Martin Grotjahn (eds.): Psychoanalytic pioneers. Basic Books, New York / London 1966.
  • Uwe Henrik Peters : Psychiatry in exile: the emigration of dynamic psychiatry from Germany 1933–1939 , Kupka, Düsseldorf 1992, ISBN 3-926567-04-X .
  • Elke Mühlleitner (with the assistance of Johannes Reichmayr ): Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysis. The members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association 1902–1938, Edition Diskord Tübingen 1992, pp. 279–281.
  • Reiner Wild:  Sachs, Hanns. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 332 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Hanns Sachs  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Elke Mühlleitner (with the collaboration of Johannes Reichmayr ): Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysis. The members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association 1902–1938, Edition Diskord Tübingen 1992, p. 279.
  2. ↑ Peters, Psychiatrie im Exil , p. 97
  3. ↑ Secrets of a Soul (1926) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Sachs, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian psychoanalyst, employee of Sigmund Freud
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1947
Place of death Boston