Rudolf Urbantschitsch

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Rudolf Alois Franz Urbantschitsch (also: Rudolf von Urban , Rudolf [Urban] von Urbantschitsch ; born April 28, 1879 in Vienna , † December 18, 1964 in Carmel , California ) was an Austrian - American psychoanalyst , physician and writer.

Life

His father was the Viennese ear, nose and throat doctor Viktor Urbantschitsch (1847–1921). Rudolf Urbantschitsch visited the Theresianum in Vienna and then studied medicine in this city. He worked as an assistant doctor in the Konried health resort in Edlach an der Rax and later headed Carl von Noorden's Vienna clinic , which he had set up in part of the premises of the Loew sanatorium. Unusually for his age and with the help of the heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este , he was able to open the cottage sanatorium for nervous and metabolic patients on October 1, 1908 in the 18th district of Währing (blueprints by Hans Kazda ). This luxury hospital attracted patients from all over the world and he remained its director in 1920. First he took over half of Kazda, then in 1922 he sold this institute, which was oriented towards modern treatment methods; it existed until 1940.

In 1908 Urbantschitsch joined the Psychological Wednesday Society founded by Sigmund Freud in 1902 , in which he dealt with psychoanalysis and the ideas of Freud, Paul Federn , Wilhelm Stekel , Otto Rank , Sándor Ferenczi and other participants in this society. In the same year the Wiener Psychoanalytische Vereinigung emerged from the Wednesday Society , of which he became a member. Although early acquaintance was present, it was not until after 1920 that he turned mainly to psychoanalysis.

In 1936 Urbantschitsch went to the USA, where he contributed significantly to the popularization of psychoanalysis and its US-American form as a treating psychoanalyst, training analyst and publicist . The Psycho-Analysis for All (first in 1928) was given a key role. In 1943 he was naturalized in the United States as Rudolf von Urban .

Urbantschitsch coined the phrase: "Neurosis is the coat of arms of culture."

His first marriage was to Friederike Persicaner. This marriage resulted in two children. After the son committed suicide, he persuaded his daughter to get sterilized so as not to pass on the mother's genes. Because of the indissolubility of the marriage, he could only get a divorce in the First Republic . From 1920 he was married to the actress Maria Mayen , with whom he had a daughter: Elisabeth Urbancic . This in turn is the mother of Christoph Waltz , which makes Urbantschitsch the grandfather of the Oscar- winning actor. This marriage was annulled by the repeal of divorce law. After emigrating, he married a third time in California, this time with Virginia Jacqueline McDonald from Canada.

Relationship with Stefanie Bachrach

Under the pseudonym Georg Gorgone he published a novel, Julia, in November 1925, predated to 1926 . Novel of a passion. In this key novel, he deals with his relationship with the nurse Stefanie Bachrach (1887–1917), with whom he had an extramarital affair. She was friends with Arthur Schnitzler (he figures as "Adolf Schutter" in the novel) and his diary records the stages of the relationship, including the end that he foresees. She committed suicide on May 15, 1917. Elements of her also flowed into Schnitzler's novella Fräulein Else .

Fonts

  • The inner secretion and its determining influence on our physical and mental life: Lecture given on May 20, 1921 in the Philosophical Society of the University of Vienna. Heller, Vienna / Leipzig 1922.
  • Psychoanalysis: its significance and its influence on the education of young people, child education, career and love choice. Lecturer Using examples from life. Perles, Vienna 1924 (revised in 1928 in English translation as Psycho-Analysis for All by Daniel in London).
  • Modern child rearing based on psychoanalytic experiences: Lecture. Perles, Vienna 1925.
  • Self-knowledge with the help of psychoanalysis: presented using cases from psychoanalytic practice. Lecture given in Vienna's Urania on January 14, 1926. Perles, Vienna 1926.
  • Georg Gorgone: Julia. Novel of a passion. Rikola, Vienna 1926.
  • The problem of the soul in psychoanalytic lighting. Lecture. Perles, Vienna 1926.
  • Paths to joie de vivre: Old wisdom from a new perspective. Lecture based on practical experience. Perles, Vienna 1927.
  • Foreword to: Kurt Sonnenfeld: The red veil. Novel. Salzer, Vienna 1927.
  • The trial marriage: from practice - for practice. Phaidon, Vienna 1929.
  • Practical life science: From space to self. Amalthea, Vienna 1930.
  • Rudolf von Urban: Myself not least. A confessional autobiography of a psychoanalyst and some explanatory history cases. Jarrolds, London 1958.
  • Rudolf Urban von Urbantschitsch: Sexual Education from Childhood to Marriage: New Paths to a Perfect Sexual Life and a Happy Marriage . Czerny, Vienna 1951 ( Sex Perfection and Marital Happiness. Dial Press, New York 1949)
  • Rudolf von Urban: The unconscious life. Amandus, Vienna 1963 ( Beyond human knowledge: A consideration of the unexplained in man and nature. Rider, London 1958).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baptismal Book - 01-121 | 01., St. Stephan | Vienna / Lower Austria (East): Rk. Archdiocese of Vienna | Austria | Matricula Online. Accessed May 31, 2020 .
  2. ^ Urban, Rudolf from: Myself not Least . 1st edition. Jarrolds, London 1958, pp. 210 .
  3. ↑ Teresa Schaur-Wünsch: Elisabeth Waltz-Urbancic: “It was a look out into the world” . In: DiePresse.com , October 15, 2016.
  4. ↑ - Historisches Börsenblatt Digital. Accessed April 8, 2020 (German).
  5. ^ Gerhard Strejcek: Viennese trauerreigen. Retrieved April 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Urbantschitsch, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Urban, Rudolf von; Urban von Urbantschitsch, Rudolf; Urbantschitsch, Rudolf von; Gorgone, Georg (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American psychoanalyst and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 1964
Place of death Carmel , California