Hermann Argelander

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Hermann Argelander (born February 14, 1920 in Bromberg , Poland ; died June 4, 2004 in Eschborn ) was a German internist and psychoanalyst .

Life

Argelander studied medicine in Berlin and graduated in 1945 with a doctorate. From 1945 to 1959 he worked in Berlin-Schöneberg in the Auguste Viktoria Hospital in internal medicine , where he completed a specialist training as an internist. In 1951 he also began training in psychoanalysis at the Berlin Institute for Psychoanalysis. Since 1957 he was a member of the German Psychoanalytic Association (branch of the International Psychoanalytic Association), later he was made an honorary member. From 1960 to 1977 he helped to set up the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt am Main and managed its outpatient department. From 1977 to 1987 he was Alexander Mitscherlich's successor in the chair for psychoanalysis at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In addition, he worked as a training analyst , supervisor and leader of Balint groups and trained numerous psychoanalysts. His lectures on Sigmund Freud from this period were published in 2011.

On his 75th birthday, the magazine for psychoanalytic theory and practice dedicated a special issue to him. On his 80th birthday the editors ' volume was published: On “scenic understanding” in psychoanalysis: Hermann Argelander on his 80th birthday. This is his influence on his students and colleagues, such as B. Heinrich Deserno , Rolf Klüwer , Peter Kutter documented. In addition to a few monographs, Argelander wrote numerous articles and played a key role in the discourse of psychoanalysis. Between 1963 and 1985 he published a total of 27 articles in the journal Psyche , and more can be found in the Yearbook of Psychoanalysis .

Quote

“The empathetic understanding of the psychoanalytic psychotherapist has a double function. On the one hand, there is the patient's experience of being familiar with himself and becoming increasingly trusted in the analyst; on the other hand, the patient's unconscious personality structure, which is alien to him himself. The experience of the familiar other slides on the rails of colloquial communication, that of the strange other is only made accessible through a hermetic work process sui generis , which does not take the communicative material at face value. "

Work and reception

The best known is Argelander's book The First Interview in Psychotherapy , which appeared unchanged for the first time in 1970 and last in 2014 in its 10th edition. The idea and concept of scenic evidence comes from him .

The scenic understanding developed together with Alfred Lorenzer formed the center of his psychoanalytic thinking and acting. The central idea of ​​Argelander that in a first contact and in therapy not only the factual information is important, but also what develops and becomes evident in the scene between patient and therapist, was taken up not only in the field of depth psychological psychotherapy, but also in the field of supervision and advice. Mario Muck, one of his students, describes in his eulogy for his 80th birthday how much Argelander himself had cultivated the skill of scenic understanding, which was jokingly referred to as “Argelandern”: “The 'Argelander' is the special ability to "see" hidden references to a scene and to make them evident and unavoidable with a short sentence. "

He also coined the term psycho-logic as an unusual form of perception and thinking that appears in the context of psychotherapy beyond rational logic. This term was u. a. taken up in morphological psychology and its applications and in artistic therapies. With the case study Der Flieger he took part in the discourse on a new understanding of narcissism that Michael Balint , Joseph Sandler and Heinz Kohut had started , thereby contributing to the self-psychology that arose in the 1970s . Other focal points were supervision and counseling, group analysis and the importance of the connectors in the depth psychological analysis of texts.

Monographs

  • The first interview in psychotherapy. Wissenschaftlicher Buchverlag, Darmstadt, 1st edition 1970, unchanged 10th edition 2014
  • Group processes: ways of applying psychoanalysis in treatment, teaching, etc. Research. Rowohlt near Hamburg, 1. 1972, 2nd ed.
  • Der Flieger - A Character Analysis Case Study. Suhrkamp. Frankfurt am Main, 1972
  • The cognitive organization of psychic events: An attempt to systematize the cognitive organization in psychoanalysis. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1979
  • The psychoanalytic counseling dialogue. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen. 1982
  • The text and its links: studies on the psychoanalytic method. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1991

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Argelander. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. degruyter.com, accessed on May 13, 2020 (founded by Joseph Kürschner , constantly updated, restricted online edition).
  2. ↑ Hermann Argelander: The aviator. A character analytical study. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main, 1972, p. 112
  3. ↑ DPV honorary members
  4. ↑ Sybille Drews (Ed.): For> scenic understanding <in psychoanalysis. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main, 2000, p. 7
  5. ↑ On the history of the former psychoanalytic institute of the University of Frankfurt . Retrieved May 13, 2020
  6. ↑ Sibylle Drews (Ed.): Enlightenment about psychoanalysis: 40 years of the Sigmund Freud Foundation for the Promotion of Psychoanalysis eV / The Frankfurt Sigmund Freud Lectures by Hermann Argelander. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main, 2011
  7. ^ Special issue on Hermann Argelander's 75th birthday. Journal for psychoanalytic theory and practice, Jg. X, H. 1, 1995
  8. ↑ Sibylle Drews (Ed.): On “scenic understanding” in psychoanalysis: Hermann Argelander on his 80th birthday. Brandes and Apel, Frankfurt am Main, 2000
  9. ↑ Articles by Argelander in the journal Psyche
  10. ↑ Argelander quoted in: Sybille Drews (Ed.): For> scenic understanding <in psychoanalysis. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main, 2000, p. 7
  11. ↑ Hermann Argelander: The psychoanalytic dialogue. Psyche 20, 1968, p. 337
  12. ↑ Hermann Argelander: The scenic function of the ego and its parts in the formation of symptoms and character . In: Psyche 24, 1970, pp. 325-345
  13. ↑ Ellen Reinke: ›Scenic Evidenz‹ and ›Scenic Understanding‹ To convey the work of Hermann Argelander and Alfred Lorenzer. Yearbook of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 66, 2013, pp. 13–48
  14. ^ Matthias Schmeichel: The entry into supervision 1996
  15. ↑ Marion Muck in: Sibylle Drews (ed.): On “scenic understanding” in psychoanalysis: Hermann Argelander on his 80th birthday. Brandes and Apel, Frankfurt am Main, 2000, p. 15
  16. ^ Hermann Argelander: The first interview in psychotherapy , pp. 55–65
  17. ↑ Rosemarie Tüpker , Armin Schulte: Tonwelten: Music between art and everyday life. On the psycho-logic of musical events. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen, 2006
  18. ↑ Hermann Argelander: The aviator. A character analytical study. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main, 1972, pp. 12-30
personal data
SURNAME Argelander, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromberg , Poland
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 2004
Place of death Eschborn