Marie Langer

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Marie Langer (1979)

Marie Langer b. Glas ( August 31, 1910 in Vienna - December 22, 1987 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine psychoanalyst and doctor of Austrian descent who was socially and politically active throughout her life.

Life

Coming from the assimilated Jewish upper class, Marie Glas attended the Black Forest School from 1922 , where she was confronted with Marxist and feminist ideas. A few months before graduating from high school, she married Herbert Manovill in 1929 , from whom she divorced in 1932. In 1933 she became a member of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ), which was banned six weeks later. During her medical studies she completed an analysis with Richard Sterba . In 1935 she completed her studies, trained as an anesthetist , worked in the women's department of the Psychiatric University Clinic with Heinz Hartmann and joined the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association (WPV). Thus she was forced to live in double underground, since she had to keep her membership in both the KPÖ and the WPV in the other association secret.

In 1936 she got involved with her future husband Max Langer (1902-1965) in the Spanish Civil War and worked in the medical service of the International Brigades . 1939 marriage and emigration to Uruguay , 1942 relocation to Argentina , where she worked as an analyst. Marie Langer was instrumental in founding the Asociación Psicoanalítíca Argentina (APA), but came into conflict with this organization two decades later - because of her union activities and her commitment to left-wing psychoanalysis. In 1971, her lecture Psychoanalysis and / or Social Revolution caused a scandal at the IPA Congress in Vienna and provoked the currents of psychoanalytic orthodoxy that conformed to the spirit of the spirit. Your presentation was not printed , as usual, in the IPA's International Journal - officially for lack of space . Marie Langer then resigned from the IPA and APA.

As a result, the tirelessly fighter joined the plataforma-argentina , a psychoanalytic association that advocated socially and politically active psychoanalysis. In 1972, Marie Langer was elected President of the Federación Argentina de Psiquiatras (FAP), she founded the Coordinadora Trabajadores de Salud Mental (CTSM), an initiative that wanted to break down the hierarchies in the hospital, and was appointed to a chair as an assistant professor in 1974. However, Marie Langer had to leave Argentina that same year because her name was on the death lists of the Alianza Anticomunista Argentina (AAA). She went to Mexico , later to Nicaragua , where she helped set up a psychosocial service, organized the world's first congress on Marxism and Psychoanalysis in Havana in 1986 and died of lung cancer in Buenos Aires in 1987 .

Fonts

  • Maternidad y Sexo. Estudio psicoanalitico y psicosomatico. Buenos Aires 1951 (frequent new editions in several Latin American countries)
    • German edition: Motherhood and Sexus. Body and psyche of women. Freiburg 1988
  • Fantasias eternas a la luz del psicoanálisis. Buenos Aires 1957
  • Psicoterapia del grupo, su enfoque psicoanalítico. Buenos Aires 1957
  • Sterility and envy. IJP 39, 1958, 139-143
  • Ideología e idealización. Rev psicoanál 16 (4), 1959
  • The "figure" of a group of sterile women. Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine 5, 1959, pp. 53-62.
  • Psychoanalysis - in whose service? Neues Forum , 28, (Sept./Oct.) 1971, pp. 39-42.
  • Vicisitudes del movimiento psicoanalitico argentino. In Franco Basaglia (ed.): Razón, locura y sociedat. Mexico 1978
  • About Using Psychoanalysis in Building a New Society. Journal 8, 1983, 3-10
  • Loyalty and ambivalence in connection with the experience of building up in Nicaragua. In: Journal 10, 1984, 69-74
  • Psychoanalysis in the service of the people (project salud mantal Nicaragua). Salzburg 1984
  • Report on the Balint groups in Nicaragua. PsA-Info 24, 1985, pp. 31-37.
  • From Vienna to Managua. Paths of a Psychoanalyst. Freiburg 1986
  • The Fried Child and Other Myths. Freiburg 1987
  • The power of unconscious fantasies. Evita Perón , Elizabeth I and other myths. Giessen 2003
  • Psychoanalysis and / or social revolution. Lecture in Vienna 1971. In: Life in contradiction. Marie Langer, texts, letters, encounters. Edited by Raimund Bahr, St. Wolfgang 2007
  • (with L. Grinberg and E. Rodrigué) Psychoanalytic group therapy. Practice and theoretical basics. Stuttgart 1960
  • (with Jaime del Palacio and Enrique Guinsberg) Memoria, historia y diálogo psicoanalítico. Mexico 1981

reception

In 2003 the film Marie Langer was made. The novel of memories by Corinna Wichmann and Lester Y. Cano Alvarez .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marie Langer. (No longer available online.) In: khm.de. December 11, 2004, archived from the original on May 5, 2010 ; accessed on May 26, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.khm.de
personal data
SURNAME Langer, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glas, Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1987
Place of death Buenos Aires