Max Kahane (medic)

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Max Kahane (born June 13, 1866 in Jassy , Principality of Romania ; † January 11, 1923 in Vienna ) was a Romanian - Austrian doctor , psychoanalyst and founding member of the Psychological Wednesday Society in Vienna.

Life

Max Kahane was born into a family of the Mosaic faith. The father was a private civil servant . Kahane attended the Leopoldstädter Communal-Realgymnasium in Vienna and passed the Matura there in 1883. He then studied medicine at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in medicine in 1889. He then became an aspirant of the Vienna General Hospital . In 1895 Kahane became a committee member of the "Vienna Medical Club". He demonstrated numerous medical cases at this club in the 1890s. In 1895 and 1896, Kahane attended Sigmund Freud's lectures at the University of Vienna. Kahane became a friend of Sigmund Freud. In 1902, Freud sent a postcard to Kahane to invite him to the discussion that later became the Wednesday Psychological Society . Kahane was one of the founding members of this group , along with Wilhelm Stekel , Alfred Adler and Rudolf Reitler .

The figure of little Cohn was the subject of one of the first meetings of the Wednesday Psychological Society (renamed “ Wiener Psychoanalytische Vereinigung ” from 1908 ) in Sigmund Freud's apartment , at which Wilhelm Stekel , Max Kahane, Rudolf Reitler , Alfred Adler and so far not identified writers participated.

Until 1907 Max Kahane took part in the Wednesday evenings. But then there was a break with Freud and Kahane stayed away from the evenings. The break between friends Freud and Kahane had come about because Kahane couldn't cope with the often angry way in which Freud dealt with his friends. Max Kahane attended the first international meeting of psychoanalysts in 1908 in Salzburg. Despite his presence, he was officially no longer listed on the attendance list in Salzburg. In October 1909 he was once again a guest of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association .

From 1901 until his death, Kahane was the owner and medical director of the "Institute for Physical Healing Methods" and worked as an electrotherapist. He treated with X-rays, with electric baths, hot air, vibration massages and the Finsen lamp . In 1907 and 1908, Kahane became secretary of the Society for Physical Medicine.

Kahane translated the second volume of Jean-Martin Charcot's lectures into German in 1885 , after Sigmund Freud had previously translated the first volume. He also translated Pierre Janet's "The state of mind of the hysterical" (The psychic stigmata).

Max Kahane also worked at the Department of Nervous Diseases at the “First Public Children's Sick Institute” in Vienna, at the same time as Sigmund Freud. This institute had grown rapidly since 1882 under the direction of the pediatrician Max Kassowitz (1842–1913).

Max Kahane passed away voluntarily on January 11, 1923. One day later, Herbert Silberer , also a member of the “Vienna Psychological Society”, chose to commit suicide. Herbert Silberer also had differences with Sigmund Freud. A few months before his suicide, Silberer had received a negative letter from Sigmund Freud. There was a gloomy mood among members of society in the face of these two suicides.

Fonts (selection)

  • Internal medicine plan for students and general practitioners , Leipzig 1901.
  • Therapy of diseases of the respiratory and circulatory apparatus , Vienna and Leipzig 1902.
  • with Alfred Adler : Medical dictionary for general practitioners , 1908.
  • Basics of electrodiagnostics & electrotherapy , Berlin 1922.

literature

  • Salomon Ehrmann , doctor in Vienna: The application of electricity in dermatology. A guide for doctors and students. Josef Šafář Publishing House Vienna and Leipzig, 1908.
  • Fritz Wittels : Sigmund Freud. The man. The teaching. The school , Leipzig, Vienna, Zurich 1924.
  • Elke Mühlleitner with the collaboration of Johannes Reichmayr : Max Kahane , in: Biographisches Lexikon der Psychoanalyse. The members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association from 1902–1938 , ed. Diskord Tübingen 1992, pp. 176–178.
  • Wolfgang U. Eckart : Sick people, currents, radiation fields. Medicine and electricity around 1900. In: Rolf Spieker (Hrsg.): Be absolutely modern. Electricity and Zeitgeist around 1900 , Rasch Verlag Bramsche 2001, pp. 126–135, 198–201.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Stekel: The 'little boy . In: Masks of Sexuality . 2nd and 3rd ed., Vienna 1924, pp. 137–148
  2. ^ Wilhelm Stekel : On the history of the analytical movement , in: Wilhelm Stekel (Ed.): Advances in Sexual Science and Psychoanalysis . Vol. II, Vienna and Leipzig 1926: 539-575, p. 570.
  3. ^ Hermann Nunberg and Ernst Federn (eds.): Protocols of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association, Volume I, 1906–1908, Fischer Frankfurt 1976, pp. 325–367.
  4. ↑ Walter Mentzel: From the medical history holdings of the UB MedUni Vienna: The first Public Children's Sick Institute (1788 - 1900 - 1938): Joseph Johann Mastalier - Max Kassowitz - Carl Hochspringer - Sigmund Freud. II. Sigmund Freud worked at the Department of Nervous Diseases at the First Public Children's Institute. Blog University Library Medical University of Vienna, July 23, 2020. Digitized version , accessed on August 16, 2020.
  5. ^ Elke Mühlleitner with the collaboration of Johannes Reichmayr : Max Kahane , in: Biographisches Lexikon der Psychoanalyse. The members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association from 1902–1938 , ed. Diskord Tübingen 1992, pp. 176–178.
personal data
SURNAME Kahane, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Iassy
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1923
Place of death Vienna