Ludwig Jekels

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Ludwig Jekels in the Vienna Psychoanalytical Outpatient Clinic in 1922 (seated, 3rd from left).
Photo: Ludwig Gutmann

Ludwig Jekels , also Jekeles (born August 15, 1867 in Lemberg , Austria-Hungary ; died April 13, 1954 in New York City ) was an Austrian-American psychoanalyst .

Life

Since Ludwig Jekeles' father died early, his uncle, a lawyer, took over the guardianship. Jekeles attended an upper secondary school in Lemberg and studied medicine in Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1892. At the university clinic , he specialized in psychiatry and neurology over the next five years . In 1897 he founded a private sanatorium for the treatment of nervous diseases in Bistrai . In 1903 he changed his last name to Jekels. After his wife's suicide , he went to Vienna in 1905 for psychiatric treatment from Sigmund Freud . In May / June 1906 Jekels treated the actress, theater director and writer Gabriela Zapolska with a therapy that parallels Freud's unsuccessful therapy on Emma Eckstein . Whenever Zapolska later commented on her lack of trust in doctors, she stressed that she hated Jekels the most.

In the summer of 1910, 15-year-old Anna Freud v. a. because of her psychological problems in Jekel's overcrowded sanatorium in Bisrai. Her father thanked Jekels profusely for the positive result. Jekels made no secret of the fact that he couldn't stand his other patients when talking to Anna and her aunt Minna Bernays. Two years later he closed his sanatorium. Jekels was still friends with Freud later and was accepted by him into his Tarock circle after the death of Oskar Rie (1863–1931) . Jekels was an example of the fact that Freud did not reject all of his students, but could remain loyal to them. Jekels was funny, resourceful, and a good speaker.

In 1908 he attended the first international meeting of psychoanalysts in Salzburg and in 1909 he joined the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association , of which he became a member in 1910. Jekels campaigned for the spread of psychoanalysis in Poland and presented it at a medical congress in Warsaw in 1912 . He translated psychoanalytic writings into Polish. Jekels published in 1914 with the investigation The turning point in the life of Napoleon I , the first psycho-historical work .

Jekels was a staunch socialist and later joined the communist movement in Austria. In 1934 he had to emigrate to Sweden, where he unsuccessfully wanted to support the Finnish-Swedish Society for Psychoanalysis in establishing it, and returned in 1937. After the annexation of Austria in 1938 he emigrated to Australia and from there to the USA. where he opened a practice in New York City . He became an honorary member of the New York Psychoanalytical Society in 1941 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Teorya Freuda o histeryi i jego metoda psychoanalizy . In: Medycyna i Kronika Lekarska, 1909, pp. 1268-1272
  • Leczenie psychonewroz za pomoca metody psychoanalitysnej Freuda, tudziez kazuistyka . In: Medycyna i Kronika Lekarska, 1909
  • Some remarks on the theory of instincts , in: Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse , 1913, 1, pp. 439–443.
  • The turning point in the life of Napoleon I , in: Imago , 1914, 3, 313–381.
  • Shakespeare's "Macbeth" , in: Imago, 1917/1918. Pp. 170-195
  • Psychoanalytic therapy , in: Svenska Läkartidningen , 1936, pp. 1797–1802, pp. 1821–1831.
  • Selected papers, including two papers written in collaboration with Edmund Bergler . New York: International Universities Press, 1952

literature

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Jekels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lena Magnone, Polskie przestrzenie psychoanalizy - Zapolska w Bystrej (Polish spaces of psychoanalysis - Zapolska in Bystra), in: Przegląd Humanistyczny 2011, No.2, pp. 49-62, abstract at: https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=174105
  2. ^ Dembińska / Rutkowski, Dr Jekels' health resort, s. o., p. 4th
  3. ↑ Brigitte Spreitzer, Introduction to: Anna Freud, Gedichte - Prosa - Translations, Vienna 2014. http://boehlau-verlag.com/download/163487/978-3-205-79497-4_Leseprobe.pdf
  4. ^ Dembińska / Rutkowski, Dr Jekels' health resort, s. see page 10 or page 11.
  5. ^ A b c Hermann Nunberg and Ernst Federn (eds.): Protocols of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association , Volume II, 1908–1910, Fischer Frankfurt 1967, p. XVIII.
personal data
SURNAME Jekels, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jekeles, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1954
Place of death New York City