Paul Roazen

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Paul Roazen (born August 14, 1936 in Boston , † November 3, 2005 ) was a political scientist who became an important historian of psychoanalysis .

Life

Roazen studied at Harvard University and in Chicago and Oxford before returning to Harvard. He wrote his dissertation on Freud's political thinking. In 1971 he moved to York University in Toronto, where he taught until 1995.

In 1965 Roazen began interviewing surviving friends, relatives, colleagues, and patients of Freud. His first major book, Freud and his followers, was based on hundreds of hours of interview material. That was an original approach back then. Although also had Kurt Eissler out in the fifties interviews with pioneers of psychoanalysis, but Eissler published his interviews (with the exception of an interview with Wilhelm Reich not).

Roazen was the first non-psychoanalyst to be granted access to the archives of the British Psychoanalytical Institute by Anna Freud . There he could see all the papers that Ernest Jones had used for his semi-official Freud biography.

Fonts

As an author

  • Freud. Political and social thought . Alfred A. Knopf, New York (New York) 1968. - German first edition: Politics and Society with Sigmund Freud . From the English [translated] by Hilde Weller. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971.
  • Brother animal. The story of Freud and Tausk . Alfred A. Knopf, New York (New York) 1969. - German first edition: Brudertier. Sigmund Freud and Victor Tausk. The story of a tragic conflict . From the American [translated] by Friedhelm Herborth. Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 1973, ISBN 3-455-06339-X . - German new edition: Psychosozial-Verlag, Gießen 2002, ISBN 3-898-06108-6 .
  • Freud and his followers . Alfred A. Knopf, New York (New York) 1971. - German first edition: Sigmund Freud and his circle. A Biographical History of Psychoanalysis . From the American [translated] by GH Müller. Gustav Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach, ISBN 3-7857-0189-6 . - German new edition: Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 1997.
  • Erik H. Erikson. The power and limits of a vision . The Free Press, New York (New York) 1976.
  • Helene German. A psychoanalyst's life . Doubleday, New York (New York) 1985 - German edition: Freud's favorite Helene Deutsch. The life of a psychoanalyst . Verlag Internationale Psychoanalyse, Munich / Vienna 1989.
  • Encountering Freud. The politics and histories of psychoanalysis . Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick (New Jersey) 1990.
  • Meeting Freud's family . University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst (Massachusetts) 1993.
  • (with Bluma Swerdloff): Heresy. Sandor Rado and the psychoanalytic movement . Aronson, Northvale (New Jersey) 1995.
  • How Freud worked. First-hand accounts of patients . - German edition: How Freud worked: First-hand reports from patients . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 1999.
  • Canada's King. An essay in political psychology . Mosaic Press, Oakville (Ontario) 1998.
  • Oedipus in Britain. Edward Glover and the struggle over Klein . Other Press, New York (New York) 2000.
  • Political theory and the psychology of the unconscious. Freud, JS Mill, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Fromm, Bettelheim and Erikson . Open Gate Press, London 2000.
  • The historiography of psychoanalysis . Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick (New Jersey) 2001.
  • The trauma of Freud. Controversies in psychoanalysis . Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick (New Jersey) 2002.
  • Cultural foundations of political psychology . Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick (New Jersey) 2003.
  • On the Freud watch. Public memoirs . Free Association Books, London 2003.
  • Edoardo Weiss. The house that Freud built . Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick (New Jersey) 2005.
  • The doctor and the diplomat. The mysterious collaboration between Freud and Bullitt on Woodrow Wilson . Rowman & Littlefield, New York (New York). - German edition: Sigmund Freud and William C. Bullitt. The unusual collaboration between the analyst and the diplomat . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2007.

As editor

  • Victor Tausk : Sexuality, war, and schizophrenia: collected psychoanalytic papers, edited and with an introduction by Paul Roazen; translations by Eric Mosbacher & others. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, USA 1991.

See also

literature

  • Freud under analysis: history, theory, practice; essays in honor of Paul Roazen . ed. by Todd Dufresne. - Northvale, NJ; Aronson, London 1997.
  • Hans-Jürgen Wirth: Obituary for Paul Roazen . In: Free Association - The Unconscious in Organizations and Culture , 9th year, issue 01/2006.

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personal data
SURNAME Roazen, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist, historian of psychoanalysis
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 2005