Otto Isakower

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Otto Isakower (born June 2, 1899 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † May 10, 1972 in New York City ) was an American doctor, psychiatrist and teaching psychoanalyst with Austrian roots.

Life

Otto Isakower was of Jewish descent. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1923. He worked with Paul Schilder and Heinz Hartmann in Julius Wagner-Jauregg's psychiatric clinic and specialized in psychiatry at the Vienna medical faculty. After psychoanalytic sessions with Paul Federn , he became a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association (WPV) in 1925 and worked as a training analyst. In 1934 he became the deputy managing director of Eduard Hitschmann in the outpatient clinic of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Institute. At the 14th International Psychoanalytic Congress in Marienbad in 1936, Isakower gave a lecture on the subject of "Depersonalization as a result of the recurrence of an early ego stage". In 1938, the year Austria was annexed, he, like Sigmund Freud , fled from the National Socialists to London . In London he married Salomea Gutmann, who came from Auschwitz and had been a member of the UPU since 1928. Isakower became a member of the British Psychoanalytic Association. He worked in Liverpool and Manchester and was co-editor of the complete edition of Sigmund Freud's collected works, which Anna Freud continued in London. In 1940, the Isakowers emigrated to the United States and spent the rest of their lives in New York City. Isakower became a member of the "New York Psychoanalytic Society", where he worked as a dream researcher and training analyst. He dealt with the pedagogy of psychoanalysis. Isakower's passion was historical research. After Otto Isakower's death, his widow gave the library and part of their joint property to the Hadassah University Medical Center in En Kerem , a suburb of Jerusalem.

The "Isakower phenomenon" is named after Otto Isakower, a phenomenon of the visual representation of an approaching and receding object that his patients experienced shortly before they fell asleep.

student

One of Otto Isakower's students is the US psychoanalyst Zvi Lothane (* 1934), who was born in Lublin .

Works

  • 1936: Contribution to the pathopsychology of sleep phaemes.
  • 1938: A Contribution to the Pathopsychology of Phenomena Associated with Falling Asleep.
  • with Michael Josef Eisler: De l'autre: trois références du Séminaire III de Jacques Lacan . Documents de la bibliothèque de l'école de la cause freudienne. ECF-ACF 1996.

literature

  • Zvi Lothane : Listening with the third ear as an instrument in Psychoanalysis: The contributions of Reik and Isakower. In: Psychoanalytic Review. 68, 1981, pp. 487-503.
  • Franziska Roeder: The “dream screen.” Bertram D. Lewin's psychoanalytic dream theory compared to the cinema experience. Student thesis, Humboldt University Berlin, Institute for Cultural Studies, summer semester 2009, on Otto Isakower and the Isakower phenomenon p. 5.
  • Jörg Peter Disse : Desiderius. A philosophy of desire . Kohlhammer Stuttgart 2016, p. 203 f. Digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Elke Mühlleitner: Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysis. The members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association 1902–1938. Edition Diskord, Tübingen 1992, ISBN 3-89295-557-3 , pp. 166-167.
  2. ↑ René A. Spitz : The original cave. On the genesis of perception and its role in psychoanalytic theory., In: Psyche. A journal of psychological and medical anthropology. IX. Volume, 11th issue, Berlin / Heidelberg, February 1956, p. 642.
personal data
SURNAME Isakower, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isakover, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1972
Place of death New York City