Viktor Tausk

Viktor Tausk (1900)

Viktor Tausk (born March 12, 1879 in Žilina . Austria-Hungary , † July 3, 1919 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer , neurologist , psychoanalyst and writer .

Life

His father, Hermann Tausk, was a Jewish journalist. Tausk passed the high school diploma in Varaždin in 1897 . He then studied law in Vienna , from 1900 to 1902 in Sarajevo , where he also received his doctorate. He practiced as a lawyer in Mostar . In 1906 he went to Berlin to live as a freelance artist. He earned his living with journalistic work. From 1908 to 1914 he studied medicine and underwent psychoanalytic training with Helene Deutsch in Vienna, where he established a psychoanalytic practice from 1914. He gave his first lecture at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association on November 24, 1909 and has since been part of the inner circle around Sigmund Freud . During the First World War he was drafted into the military and worked as a psychiatrist in Lublin and Belgrade . After the war he broke off his training analysis with Helene Deutsch and killed himself a little later.

He was u. a. friends with Lou Andreas-Salomé . From 1900 to 1908 he was married to Martha, b. Frisch and brother-in-law of Justinian Frisch .

Fonts

Paraphrase as a commentary and criticism on Gerhart Hauptmann's “Und Pippa tanzt” . Cronbach, Berlin 1906
Influencing apparatus . On psychoanalysis of the media. Semele, Berlin 2008
Collected psychoanalytic and literary writings. Medusa, Vienna 1983

literature

Andrea Bronner: Tausk, Viktor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , p. 811 f. ( Digitized version ).
W. Tress: Tausk Viktor. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–, ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0 , p. 217 f. (Direct links on p. 217 , p. 218 ).
Paul Roazen: Brother Animal. The Story of Freud and Tausk . Knopf, New York 1969 ISBN 0-8147-7395-8 (German: Brudertier. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1973)
Kurt R. Eissler. Victor Tausk's Suicide . Boarding school Universities Press, New York 1983 ISBN 0-8236-6735-9
Kurt R. Eissler. Talent and Genius. The fictitious case of Tausk versus Freud. Grove Press, New York 1971

Web links

Literature by and about Viktor Tausk in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Tausk, Viktor. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 20: Susm – Two. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22700-4 , pp. 24-27.

personal data
SURNAME	Tausk, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian lawyer, neurologist, psychoanalyst and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 12, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Žilina
DATE OF DEATH	July 3, 1919
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Tausk, Viktor. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 20: Susm – Two. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22700-4 , pp. 24-27.