Klaus Horn

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Klaus Ernst Horn (* 1934 in Dresden ; † 1985 ) was a German social psychologist and psychoanalyst .

Political psychology

Klaus Horn founded the newer political psychology in 1969 with his essay of the same name and was the founder of the Political Psychology Working Group (DPWP). Due to his pronounced terms, which could hardly be surpassed in terms of clarity, his contributions were often very controversial. The Suhrkamp paperback Dressur oder Erbildung criticized the “punching rituals and their social function” and evoked appropriate reactions, especially due to the fact that its formulations were sometimes misunderstood as polemics.

Horn was for a long time head of the department for social psychology at the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt, to which he belonged for over twenty years, and professor for psychology at the University of Frankfurt . He developed, among other things, the “critical theory of the subject” as an approach to a psychoanalytically oriented social psychology.

His seemingly limitless commitment to “researching individual suffering and its social backgrounds and consequences” (Hans-Joachim Busch and Heinrich Deserno in the obituary) was not without consequences: Klaus Horn died completely unexpectedly at the age of 51 in the summer of 1985 - and quite a few of his colleagues understood his untimely death as a "life-historical cost" (obituary) of such a high level of work for science. Horn was temporarily a member of the board of trustees of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Memorial Foundation .

The Sigmund Freud Institute donated his estate to the Frankfurt City and University Library in 1999.

Fonts (selection)

  • Dressage or upbringing . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1967 (and other editions).
  • Psychoanalysis . Red printing block, Frankfurt am Main 1972.
  • as editor: group dynamics and the 'subjective factor'. Repressive desublimation or politicizing practice , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1972.
  • Fear . In: Martin Greiffenhagen / Sylvia Greiffenhagen / Rainer Prätorius (ed.): Concise dictionary on the political culture of the Federal Republic of Germany. A teaching and reference work . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1981, ISBN 3-531-21516-7 , pp. 37-40.
  • Illness, Conflict, and Social Control . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1983.
  • Health behavior and gain from illness . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1984.
  • Violence - aggression - war . Nomos-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1988.
  • Political psychology . In: Klaus Horn: Political Psychology. Writings on the critical theory of the subject . Vol. I. Ed. By Hans-Joachim Busch, Frankfurt am Main 1989, pp. 19-55.

obituary

  • Hans-Joachim Busch and Heinrich Deserno : On the death of Klaus Horn. In: Werkblatt - Journal for Psychoanalysis and Social Criticism , No. 4/5, 3–4 (1985) and Frankfurter Rundschau August 13, 1985 ( PDF ).
  • Bernd Nitzschke: The effort of understanding. The political psychologist Klaus Horn turns a blind eye to no horror. In: Die Zeit , No. 34, August 19, 1999.
  • T. Leithäuser: On the death of Klaus Horn. In: Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik 9 (1985), Heft 4, pp. 127–128.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Horn estate , ub.uni-frankfurt.de, accessed on May 21, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horn, Klaus Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist, psychoanalyst and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 1985