Vera Fyodorovna Schmidt

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Wera Schmidt

Vera Fjodorovna Schmidt ( Russian Вера Фёдоровна Шмидт * 1889 in Starokostjantyniw ; † 1937 in Moscow ) was a Soviet psychoanalyst.

Life

Wera F. Janizkaja married the mathematician Otto Juljewitsch Schmidt in 1913 and began studying pedagogy in Kiev , which she completed in 1916. After the October Revolution, from 1918 to 1920, she worked in the School System Department of the People's Commissariat for Education in Moscow. In 1921 she opened the psychoanalytical children's home laboratory there , which she headed until 1925.

In 1922 Schmidt was a founding member of the Russian Psychoanalytic Association (RPV). The RPV was a successor organization to the “Moscow Psychoanalytic Society”, which was founded in 1911 by Leonid Drosnés and Nikolai J. Osipow . From 1925 to 1929 Vera Fyodorovna Schmidt worked at the Institute for Higher Nerve Functions of the Communist Academy in Moscow. After the RPV was dissolved in 1930, she was a research assistant at the Institute for Experimental Defectology of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR . She died of thyroid cancer at the age of 48 .

Works

  • Psychoanalytic education in Soviet Russia. Report on the children's home laboratory in Moscow . Leipzig, Vienna, Zurich 1924
  • The importance of breast sucking and finger sucking for the psychological development of the child . In: Imago 12 (2/3), 1926, 377-392
  • The psychoanalytic children's home in Moscow . In: Almanach des Internationale Psychoanalytischen Verlag 1, 1926, 110–112
  • Masturbation in young children . In: Zeitschrift für psychoanalytische Pädagogik 2, 1927/28, 153–157
  • The development of the knowledge drive in a child . In: Imago 16 (2), 1930, 246-289
  • Complete works , Ahriman-Verlag , Freiburg i. Br., 2010, ISBN 978-3-89484-819-4

literature

  • Schmidt, Vera , in: Élisabeth Roudinesco ; Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms . Translation from French. Wien, Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , pp. 904-906

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eugenia Fischer, René Fischer, Hans-Heinrich Otto, Hans-Joachim Rothe (eds.): Sigmund Freud / Nikolaj J. Ossipow correspondence 1921–1929, Brandes & Apsel Frankfurt am Main 2009; on the establishment of the “Russian Psychoanalytic Association”, initially called the “Moscow Psychoanalytic Society”, together with Leonid Drosnés, p. 173.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Vera Fyodorovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Vera; Janitskaya, Vera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Starokostjantyniv
DATE OF DEATH 1937
Place of death Moscow