Vilma Kovács

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Vilma Kovács (born Vilma Prosznitz October 13, 1883 in Szeged , Austria-Hungary ; died May 1940 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian psychoanalyst.

Life

Vilma Prosznitz grew up with two older sisters in a poor family.After her father's death at the age of fifteen, she was married against her will to her cousin Zsigmond Székely, who was 22 years older than her, and when she was nineteen she was the mother of three children: Alice Bálint (Alice Székely- Kovács) (1898–1939) became a psychoanalyst like her mother, Olga Dormandi (Olga Székely-Kovács) (1900–1971), became an artist. After the divorce, the three children grew up separately from her until 1910 and could only then be adopted by their second husband, the architect Frigyes Kovács.

Around 1921 Vilma Kovács consulted the Hungarian psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi about an agoraphobia , who offered her treatment and training analysis . In 1924 she was accepted into the Magyar Pszichoanalitikus Egyesület (Hungarian Psychoanalytic Society), for which she took over the organization from 1925. In the house built by Frigyes Kovács on Mészáros utca in Budapest , a psychoanalytical outpatient clinic was set up, which Ferenczi ran and which was taken over by Michael Balint in 1931 . Kovács was the analyst of Imre Hermann and Géza Róheim .

In 1923 Kovács translated Sigmund Freud's essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle into Hungarian. Her most important contribution to psychoanalytic theory is her work on the relationship between training analysis and control analysis (1933), in which she suggested that the supervision of the first treatment cases of a candidate should be carried out by his training analyst.

Given the rampant anti-Semitism in the Horthy regime , her daughter Alice Balint fled to England with her husband and child in 1939. In 1940 Kovács tried to hide in with Marie Bonaparte in Paris, but returned to Budapest in the same year, where she died of complications from a kidney disease.

Fonts

  • Analysis of a case by "Tic convulsif" , in: Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse , XI, 3, 1925, pp. 318-324
  • Das Erbe des Fortunatus , in: Imago , XII, 2–3, 1926, pp. 321–327
  • Example for active technology , in: Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse , XVI, 3, 1928, pp. 405-408
  • Repetition tendency and character formation , in: International Journal for Psychoanalysis , XVII, 4, 1931, pp. 449–463
  • Training analysis and control analysis , in: Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse , XXI, 4, 1935, pp. 515-524; 1936, pp. 346-354

literature

  • Paul Harmat: Freud, Ferenczi and the Hungarian Psychoanalysis . Tübingen: Edition Diskord, 1988, ISBN 3-89295-530-1
  • Elisabeth Roudinesco , Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis . Vienna, New York 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alice Balint , at psychoanalytikerinnen.de
  2. ↑ entry to Dormandis daughter Judith Dupont in psychoanalytikerinnen.de
  3. ↑ Kincső Verebélyi: Géza Róheim à l'occasion de son 85ème anniversaire: presentation de son oeuvre, suivie de lettres à son analyste Vilma Kovács . Paris: Le Coq-héron, 1978
personal data
SURNAME Kovács, Vilma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prosznitz, Vilma (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Szeged
DATE OF DEATH May 1940
Place of death Budapest