Sophie Lazarsfeld

Sofie (Sophie) Lazarsfeld (born Munk, May 26, 1881 in Troppau ; died September 24, 1976 in New York City ) was an Austrian individual psychologist . She was a student of Alfred Adler , later active in individual psychological practice and training and published numerous writings on marriage, family, upbringing and sexuality. Sophie Lazarsfeld is the mother of the sociologist Paul Felix Lazarsfeld .

Life

Sophie Lazarsfeld was married to the lawyer Robert Lazarsfeld from 1900. Their son Paul Felix was born in 1901, their daughter Elizabeth Henriette in 1903. She was socially committed and was particularly committed to women's issues. The leading intellectuals of Austrian social democracy met in their salon.

In the 1920s she got to know Alfred Adler's circle and trained there in individual psychology. She then worked as an individual psychological educational counselor and marriage counselor and gave lectures and seminars. She ran a private practice for marriage, family, and sex counseling. From 1926 onwards she published the book series Correct Lifestyle , in which questions of upbringing were presented in a generally understandable manner from an individual psychological point of view. She was involved in the association for individual psychology and gave lectures.

In 1926/27 she became head of an individual psychological marriage and sexual counseling center. From 1932 to 1934 she was in charge of training and education. Introductory courses in individual psychology and gave lectures in Germany and abroad ( Berlin , Zurich , Magdeburg , Brno and Pressburg ). In 1932 she organized an individual psychological summer school on the Semmering . In 1934 she was arrested as an alleged political activist. In 1937 she founded the Club of Friends of Individual Psychology with the individual psychologists who remained in Austria . She also worked as a consultant for the social democratic art agency.

In 1938 she was forced to emigrate to France. In Paris she made contact with the diplomatic mission of the Social Democrats. In 1941 she emigrated to the USA. In New York she was involved in the Individual Psychology Association and was temporarily its vice-president. She continued to give psychological counseling, lectured and published in professional journals.

memory

In 2011, Sofie-Lazarsfeld-Strasse in Vienna- Simmering (11th district) was named after her.

Publications

• Parents book. 1927.
• Sexual education. 1931.
• How the woman experiences the man. Foreign confessions and own considerations . Verlag für Sexualwissenschaft Schneider & Co, Leipzig 1931
• Humanity in the mirror of poetry. 1950.
• Erotic memory and erotic dreams . New objectives of individual psychology. In: International Journal for Individual Psychology. (hereinafter: IZI) 3, 1924, pp. 31-33.
• Courage to be imperfect . In: IZI. 4, 1926, pp. 375-381.
• From domestic peace . In: Sophie Lazarsfeld (ed.): Correct lifestyle. Vienna / Leipzig 1926.
• Family or community education . In: Erwin Wexberg (Ed.): Handbook of Individual Psychology. Vol. 1, Munich 1926. (Reprint: EJ Bonset, Amsterdam 1966, pp. 323–335)
• Kleist's Penthesilea . In: IZI. 5, 1927, 450-457.
• Kleist in the light of individual psychology . In: Yearbook of the Kleist Society. Berlin 1927.
• The lying child . Dresden 1927.
• The marriage of today and tomorrow . Munich 1928.
• Education for Marriage . Vienna 1928.
• Technique of education . Leipzig 1928.
• Sexual cases in educational counseling . In: IZI. 7, 1929, pp. 220-224.
• About marriage counseling. Consulting technique and self-education . In: IZI. 8, 1930, pp. 160-164.
• Ten years of advisory services in Vienna . In: Z. Kinderforsch. 39, 1931, pp. 68-80.
• Sexual cases of child guidance clinics . In: International Journal of Individual Psychology. (hereinafter: IJIP) 1/4, 1935, pp. 40-46.
• Jarl Skule's path to God . Ibsen’s crown pretender. In: IZI. 14, 1936, pp. 176-191.
• Dare to be less than perfect . In: IJIP. 2/2, 1936, pp. 76-82.
• Did Oedipus have an Oedipus complex? In: KA Adler, Danica Deutsch (Ed.): Essays in Individual Psychology. New York 1995, pp. 118-125.
• Organ inferiority and criminology . In: Individual Psychology Bulletin. (hereinafter: IPB) 4, 1944-45, pp. 88-90.
• The use of fiction in psychotherapy . In: Amer. J. Psychother. 3, 1949, pp. 26-33.
• Le rhythme de l'amour . Paris 1950.
• Le coin de rire . In: Individual Psychology News Letter (IPNL) 17, 1966, p. 6.
• The courage for imperfection . In: JIP. 22, 1966, pp. 163-165.

literature

• Dorothee Friebus: Sofie Lazarsfeld or "How women experience men" . In: Alfred Lévy & Gerald Mackenthun (eds.): Gestalten um Alfred Adler - Pioneers of Individual Psychology , Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-8260-2156-8 , pp. 157-174.
• Clara Kenner: Sofie Lazarsfeld . In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life work, work. Verlag Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 450–452
• Clara Kenner: Sophie Lazarsfeld. In: Clara Kenner: Der torn Himmel - Emigration and Exile of Viennese Individual Psychology. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-45320-9 , pp. 146-149.
• Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 .
• Bernhard Handlbauer: Psychoanalysts and individual psychologists in Red Vienna . In: Doris Ingrisch, Ilse Korotin, Charlotte Zwiauer (Ed.): The revolutionization of everyday life. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-631-39796-8 .
• Martina Siems: Sofie Lazarsfeld - The rediscovery of an individual psychological pioneer . V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8471-0360-8 . E-book: ISBN 978-3-8470-0360-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Sophie Lazarsfeld in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wedding book IKG Vienna (City Temple), Volume M, No. 154.