Hedda Herwig

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Hedda Juliane Herwig (born April 21, 1944 in Kassel ; † November 21, 2015 in Munich ) was a German political scientist and political philosopher with a research focus on social psychology as well as political theory and the history of ideas .

Biographical data

Hedda Herwig grew up as the daughter of an actor under the auspices of an anthroposophical upbringing. In 1962 she met the later political scientist and university professor Claus-Ekkehard Bärsch , with whom she studied together at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Since then, both have enjoyed a friendly relationship.

In 1969 she did her doctorate with the political philosopher Eric Voegelin . Between 1975 and 1978 she was an assistant for medical psychology at the University of Göttingen , where she worked as a lecturer from 1978 to 1981.

From 1981 she taught as a professor at RWTH Aachen University (until 1987). Between 1988 and spring 1999 she worked as a professor of political science at the University of Duisburg , where she lived in Düsseldorf and Munich during this time .

Researches

In the last few years of her teaching activity at Duisburg University, Herwig, in addition to general social-psychological and political-scientific questions, dealt with the problems of morality and power relations , aesthetic and symbolic politics , modern forms of political violence (strategies of "veiling" and "appropriation") of psychoanalysis (especially of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan ), ethnological studies (eg. as the Pygmies ), developmental issues, with gender studies , the Eros concept of Plato and a total with the theme "psyche and society" apart.

Herwig has mainly published in the field of psychoanalysis and politics .

She was given early retirement in 2000 due to illness, turned away from academic science and most recently worked as a “consulting astrologer ”.

Fonts

  • 1969 therapy of mankind . Studies on psychoanalysis by Freud and Jung, Munich, DNB
  • 1970 Psycho-History: Guide . In: Robert Jay Lifton : Die Immortlichkeit des Revolutionärs, Munich, ISBN 3-471-61551-2 .
  • 1977 self-determination as a political practice . In: Udo Bermbach (Hrsg.): Political science and political practice . Conference of the German Association for Political Sciences in Bonn, autumn 1977. Political quarterly journal , special issue 9, 19th vol. (1978), VS Verlag, Opladen 1978, pp. 32–44, ISBN 3-531-11458-1 . Google Books
  • 1979 The Munster Anabaptism. Prototype characteristics and causes of a political redemption movement. In: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 31 (1979)
  • 1980 Forms of the concept of emancipation . On the criticism of the indefinite self-realization, Munich, ISBN 3-7705-1922-1 .
  • 1982 Medical Psychology . In: Hermann Pohlmeier (Ed.): Medical Psychology and Clinic , Stuttgart, ISBN 3-87844-000-6 .
  • 1984 Psychology of Gnosis: CG Jung . In: Jacob Taubes : Theory of Religion and Political Theology. Volume 2: Gnosis and Politics. Munich
  • 1990 The judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court on § 218 as an expression of prevailing sexual morality . In: Anja Bagel-Bohlau / Michael Salewski (eds.): Sexualmoral und Zeitgeist in the 19th and 20th centuries , Opladen, ISBN 3-8100-0869-9 .
  • 1992 "Violence is soft and veiled ..." . Exploitation strategies in our society, Reinbek near Hamburg, ISBN 3-498-02913-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice - Hedda Herwig. In: sueddeutsche.de. December 12, 2015, accessed December 13, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Herwig, Hedda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herwig, Hedda Juliane (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Kassel , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 2015
Place of death Munich , Bavaria , Germany