Josine Mueller

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Josine Müller (née Ebsen; born October 10, 1884 in Hamburg ; died December 30, 1930 while on a voyage to the Canary Islands ) was a German doctor and psychoanalyst .

Life

Josine Ebsen grew up as a child of the Hamburg merchant Hermann Ebsen. Her mother died shortly after she was born. In Hamburg she first attended a secondary school for girls , then the secondary school, where she graduated from high school in 1906. In 1906 she began, together with her friend Karen Horney , as one of the first women in Germany to study medicine at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In 1912 she did her doctorate with Wilhelm His at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin with a paper on the course of fat resp. Ester cleavage in the blood.

At first she worked as a doctor in the children's department of the Hohenlychen sanatorium . She developed an interest in psychoanalysis and began training analysis with Karl Abraham in 1912 . From 1913 to 1919 she worked as an assistant doctor at the Berlin Friedrichshain Hospital . From 1915 to 1916 she completed a neurological - psychiatric specialist training at the Berolinum sanatorium in Lankwitz .

She shared her interest in psychoanalysis with Carl Müller-Braunschweig , whom she married in 1913. The marriage ended in divorce in 1925.

From 1921 she was a member of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Association and specialized in the analytical treatment of children at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute . From 1923 to 1926 she carried out a second analysis of her own with Hanns Sachs . From 1926 she worked as a neurologist in a private practice in Berlin-Wilmersdorf .

Work and reception

Josine Müller participated in the criticism of psychoanalysis from a feminist perspective and dealt among other things. a. with issues of female sexuality. In her essay, published in 1931, she was able to use her observations of children to show that girls have an intuitive knowledge of female anatomy . Along with Karen Horney , to whom she referred, she was one of the first psychoanalysts to contradict Freud's conception of a “primary masculinity” through which the feminine appears and is experienced as inferior ( penis envy ). With her observations and their interpretations, she made one of the first contributions to a new understanding of gender in psychoanalysis, in which the two genders appear as equal, complementary poles. Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel briefly summarizes Müller's ideas on female sexuality, along with other perspectives, in the introduction to her collection of essays La sexualité féminine: recherches psychanalytiques nouvelles , published in 1964 .

Josine Müller planned a larger work entitled The Infantile Femininity in Narcissism , which could not be continued due to her early death. She died of pneumonia while on a boat trip to the Canary Islands.

Fonts

  • Josine Ebsen: About the course of fat resp. Ester cleavage in the blood. Blanke, Berlin 1912 (dissertation, University of Berlin, 1912).
  • Josine Müller: Early atheism and poor character development. In: International Journal of Psychoanalysis . Vol. 11 (1925), H. 4, p. 487 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Josine Müller: A Contribution to the Question of Libido Development in Girls in the Genital Phase (1925). In: International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Vol. 17 (1931), pp. 256-262 ( digitized version ). English version in: Russel Grigg, Dominique Hecq and Craig Smith (eds.): Female Sexuality. The Early Psychoanalytic Controversies. Karnac, London 2015 (first published in 1999), pp. 122–129 ( limited preview in Google book search).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A contribution to the question of the libido development of girls in the genital phase (1925). In: International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Vol. 17 (1931), pp. 256-262 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ German: Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel (Ed.): Psychoanalysis of female sexuality. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1974 (French first edition: Payot, Paris 1964).
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Josine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ebsen, Josine (maiden name); Müller-Ebsen, Josine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1930
Place of death Boat trip to the Canary Islands