Psychological Wednesday Society

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The waiting room in a later furnishing

The Wednesday Psychological Society was the first psychoanalytic working group and the forerunner of the International Psychoanalytic Association . It was launched in autumn 1902 by Sigmund Freud in Vienna. The other founding members were Wilhelm Stekel , Alfred Adler , Rudolf Reitler (1865-1917) and Max Kahane (1866-1923). The group met regularly on Wednesday evenings at 8:30 p.m. in the waiting room of Freud's practice at Berggasse 19 in Vienna's 9th district. The subjects of the meetings were psychoanalytic treatments and psychoanalytic theories. From 1906, the group's secretary, Otto Rank , made minutes that Freud kept and saved from the National Socialists. Paul Federn gave it to Hermann Nunberg , and from 1962 he and Ernst Federn published it, initially in an English translation.

In 1907 the society had 22 members. On April 8, 1908, the Wednesday Society was transformed into an association that was named Vienna Psychoanalytical Association . From this emerged in 1910 the International Psychoanalytic Association and in the course of it numerous national working groups.

Logs

  • Hermann Nunberg , Ernst Federn (Ed.): Protocols of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association . Volume 1-4. S. Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 1976. ISBN 3-10-022737-9 .
  • Freud in conversation with his colleagues: from the minutes of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association . Edited, introduced and with intermediate texts by Ernst Federn, Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-596-26774-9 .

literature

  • Elke Mühlleitner: Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysis. The members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association 1902–1938 . Tübingen: Edition Diskord, 1992, ISBN 3-89295-557-3 .
  • Hubert Grabitz: Freud under the record. On the discussions in the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association WPV. Simon Verlag für Bibliothekswissen, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-945610-23-7 .
  • Ernest Jones : The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud. Volume 2. Transl. Katherine Jones and Gertrud Meili-Doretzki. Huber, Bern 1962, p. 20 ff.
  • Wednesday Psychological Society , in: Élisabeth Roudinesco ; Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms . Translation. Vienna: Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , pp. 818-821
  • Vincent Brome : Sigmund Freud and his circle: ways and wrong ways of psychoanalysis . Translated from the English by Eva Rapsilber. Munich: List, 1969 [ Freud and his Disciples , 1967]