Michael Turnheim

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From Caprichos: The sleep of reason gives birth to monsters or: The dream of reason gives birth to monsters by Francisco de Goya

Michael Turnheim (born October 22, 1946 in Vienna , † November 27, 2009 in Paris ) was an Austrian psychoanalyst and supervisor in Paris and Vienna.

life and work

Turnheim completed a psychoanalytic training with Jacques Lacan (from whom he translated the seminar "The Psychoses"). He worked as a psychoanalyst in Vienna and Paris, had a doctorate in medicine, a specialist in neurology and psychiatry, and gave lectures on Freud, Lacan and Derrida at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna, which made him a professor in 2009. Turnheim was the department head of a day clinic for psychotic and autistic children. He edited the writings of the psychoanalyst Herbert Silberer and himself published numerous titles on clinical and historical questions in psychoanalysis.

The title of the book, Sleeping With Reason, is a reference to a painting by de Goya. A critical renewal of psychoanalysis was important for his work, where he refused to be absolute and always took a critical stance. He took up the current of his time, structuralism and Derrida in particular: a text should be understood in its actual meaning and also in its reception, contradictions ( aporias ) are also allowed. One interpretation of the alien hand syndrome in stroke patients is that what is fundamentally alien to one's own body (see partial objects ) is successfully adopted in a healthy development; in the event of injury, the ability recedes. With autism, the violence of language becomes obvious, Turnheim works successfully with drawings and painting therapy.

Turnheim discovered in his writings that Freud's interpretation of grief had changed. In 1917 Freud suggested that successful mourning work could completely replace the lost object, and that the libido would become free and mobile again. The late Freud saw a lasting melancholy residue as a possibility that love would continue to exist.

Fonts (selection)

  • Freud and the rest: essays on the history of psychoanalysis (= psychoanalytic essays. Vol. 1). Turia + Kant, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85132-041-7 .
  • Gathering and dispersing (= psychoanalytic essays. Vol. 1). Psychoanalytic Essays II, Turia + Kant, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85132-104-9 .
  • The other in the same. About grief, jokes and politics. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-608-94176-2 .
  • The failure of the surface. Autism, psychosis, biopolitics. Diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-935300-71-9 .
  • Sleep with reason. The relationship between Lacan and Derrida. Diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-03734-067-7 .

literature

  • Marcus Coelen, Franz Kaltenbeck, Dian Turnheim (eds.): Au-delà du deuil / Beyond the mourning. Michael Turnheim. Lire la psychanalyse autrement / read psychoanalysis differently. Diaphanes, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-03734-257-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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.lacan.at
  2. ^ Oe1: Dimensions - The world of science from February 8, 2011
  3. ↑ http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez_id=7719&ausgabe=200501
personal data
SURNAME Turnheim, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 2009
Place of death Paris