Harry Slochower

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Harry Slochower (also Zloczower ) (* approx. September 1, 1900 (in accordance with the Jewish calendar, the exact date is not known) in the ( Bukowina ); † May 11, 1991 in Brooklyn ( New York )) was a German scholar and Psychoanalyst .

biography

Slochower's family moved to the United States in 1913. He grew up in New York (Bronx) and studied philosophy and German at the College of the City of New York. In 1928 he received his doctorate with a study on Richard Dehmel . He was also studying in Munich, Berlin and Heidelberg.

Since 1924 Slochower taught German and English (for immigrants) at various schools in New York. From 1928 to 1952 Slochower taught German literature, comparative literature and philosophy at Brooklyn College in New York. Further stations in his academic career followed; from 1964 to 1989 he taught at the New School for Social Research in New York.

Since the 1940s, he faced political suspicion for alleged membership in the Communist Party. He was dismissed, but reinstated his teaching post in 1956 following a decision by the Supreme Court (and with compensation being paid). After a short time he gave up the professorship and has since worked as a psychoanalyst.

Scientific work

Slochower emerged primarily with psychoanalytic literary interpretations. His works include Three Ways of Modern Man (1937), Thomas Mann's Joseph Story: An Interpretation (1938) and No Voice is Wholly Lost (1945). He has also contributed to various philosophical, literary and psychoanalytic journals. Slochower was president of the Association for Applied Psychoanalysis and, from 1964 until his death, editor-in-chief of American Imago magazine .

Works

  • Richard Dehmel . The man and the thinker. A story of his mind as reflected in his time, Dresden: Reissner, 1928.
  • Three Ways of Modern Man , 1937.
  • Thomas Mann's Joseph Story: An Interpretation , 1938.
  • No voice is wholly lost. Writers and thinkers in war and peace , New York: Creative Age Press 1945.
  • Literature and philosophy between two world wars. The problem of alienation in a war culture, New York, Citadel, 1964.
  • Mythopoesis , Wayne State University Press, 1970.
  • What It Means To Be Jewish , in: Judaism. A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought 23 (1974), 462-464.
  • On the ego function of suicide in literature , in: Psyche 1981, 35 (12), 1077–1102.

literature

  • Myth, Creativity, Psychoanalysis . Essays in Honor of Harry Slochower, ed. By Maynard Solomon, with the assistance of Sophie Wilkins and Donald M. Kaplan, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1978.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Supreme Court of the United States Syllabus: Slochower v. Board of Higher Education of New York City (decided April 9, 1956) .

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personal data
SURNAME Slochower, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zloczower, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American specialist in German studies and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH around September 1, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucovina
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1991
Place of death Brooklyn , New York City