Psychoanalytical Children's Home Laboratory in Moscow
The Children's Home Laboratory “International Solidarity” (Detski dom-laboratorija Meschdunarodnaja solidarnost / Детский дом-лаборатория “Международная солидарнодная солидарннostkiynaya” / Detskij-dom-laboratorija Mezhaya "also solidarity Institution with a psychoanalytic educational approach in Soviet Russia , which existed in Moscow from 1921 to 1925. It was headed by Ivan Ermakow (1875–1942), the head of the psychoanalytic movement in Russia.
Initially, 30 children between one and five years of age from different social classes were accepted, officially it was affiliated to the Moscow Psychoneurological Institute . The money came from the “People's Commissariat for Enlightenment”.
The children's home laboratory fell into a "heyday of psychoanalysis [...] which the Soviet government not only tolerated but even encouraged", but then "came to an end quickly with Stalinism ". Even Stalin's son Vasily to have been brought up in this orphanage.
In the German-speaking world, it is mainly known through its director Wera Schmidt (1889–1937), who published her experience report in 1924 in her small work “Psychoanalytic Education in Soviet Russia”.
Quote
“The aim of the education in the children's home laboratory was sublimation without compulsion. The children were allowed to satisfy their sexual curiosity, punishment and prohibitions were frowned upon. Culturally and socially higher needs should develop through the positive attachment of the child to a sensitive caregiver and the corrective influence of the child collective. Vera Schmidt's concept of upbringing became known far beyond the Soviet Union; it inspired the anti-authoritarian children's shop movement in Germany after 1968. "
See also
References and footnotes
- ↑ W. Schmidt, 1924, p. 1 ff.
- ↑ Lück, p. 17.
- ↑ psychoanalytikerinnen.de: Psychoanalysts in Russia
literature
- Helmut E. Lück : History of psychology: currents, schools, developments. 2009 ( partial online view ).
- Wera Schmidt : Psychoanalytical Education in Soviet Russia. Report on the children's home laboratory in Moscow . Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich, International Psychoanalytical Publishing House, 1924 ( digitized version )
- Ralf Forsbach: The '68 and medicine . 2011 ( partial online view )
Web links
- What was the Detski Dom, and what role did it play in the history of psychoanalysis?
- A house of the century (Ulrike Gruska)
- Trotsky's dream of the laboratory of the new man (Andreas Krause)
- Russia: the engineers of the soul
- psychoanalytikerinnen.de: Psychoanalysts in Russia
- summerhill.paed.com: Wera Schmidt's children's home laboratory