Wilfried Daim

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Wilfried Daim (born July 21, 1923 in Vienna ; † December 30, 2016 there ) was an Austrian psychologist and psychotherapist (in the school of Igor Alexander Carusos ), writer and art collector .

Life

As a teenager, Daim participated in a Catholic youth group from 1940 to 1945 in the resistance against National Socialism . During the World War he served in the German Wehrmacht and was seriously injured (amputation of a lower leg).

In the years after the end of World War II, Daim u. a. Experiments on telepathy in dreams, whereby he used colored cardboard pieces of different shapes as objects, which were then built into their dreams (changed) by the test subject - e.g. For example, Daim used a small round orange cardboard disk as an object, and the dreamer dreamed of an orange sun disk in a picture by Odilon Redon , or a green triangle as a target object was alienated into a Christmas tree in the dream. These experiments were also published in 1949 (see literature). For a time, Daim was vice-president of the Austrian Society for Psychical Research (today: Austrian Society for Parapsychology ). He also took part in the 1st International Congress of Parapsychology in Utrecht (1953). Later his interest turned to other questions.

In 1956, Daim founded the Institute for Political Psychology . He has published numerous books on psychology and belief. He takes the view that the development of the person is aimed directly at God: "We only have the choice between senselessness of soul life and psychological proof of God." The central power of man is the ability to communicate with God. This openness to the absolute constitutes openness to the world.

From 1969 on, Daim was one of the organizers of the “ popular initiative to dissolve the Austrian Armed Forces ” together with Günther Nenning .

His book The Man Who Gave Hitler the Ideas , in which he deals with the racist and esoteric Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels , became known to a wider public . His thesis that Lanz exerted a significant influence on Hitler was only taken up temporarily in academia and then rejected.

In addition to his work as a psychologist and publicist, Daim has made a name for himself above all as an art collector. His collection of Austrian painters from the period between the world wars is considered the most interesting of its kind.

Daim was a member of the K.Ö.St.V. Rudolfina Vienna in the ÖCV and the Catholic-Austrian Landsmannschaft Leopoldina in the Academic Association of Catholic-Austrian Landsmannschaften . He was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance .

Wilfried Daim is buried in the Ottakringer Friedhof (group 22, row 11, number 17).

Fonts (selection)

  • Investigations into the form of telephone numbers that is favorable for keeping. Dissertation. Vienna 1948.
  • Experiments with the soul. Science for everyone. Ulrich Moser, Graz 1949.
  • Progressive Catholicism . Manz, Munich 1967.
  • Revaluation of psychoanalysis. Herold, Vienna 1951.
  • Depth Psychology and Salvation. Herold, Vienna 1954.
  • The man who gave Hitler the ideas. Jörg Lanz from Liebenfels . Isar, Munich 1958.
  • The casteless society. Manz, Munich 1960.
  • with Friedrich Heer , August Maria Knoll (ed.): Church and future. Europe, Vienna 1963.
  • On the strategy of peace. Europe, Vienna, Cologne, Stuttgart, Zurich 1962.
  • Chinese in Europe. Youth and People, Vienna 1973.
  • Otto Rudolf Schatz . Graphic. Edition Roetzer, Eisenstadt 1978, ISBN 3-85374-041-3
  • Franz Probst . Edition Roetzer, Eisenstadt 1979, ISBN 3-85374-052-9
  • Peter Diem (ed.): As a Christian in the murderous war 1939-1945. Platform, Perchtoldsdorf 2011, ISBN 3-9502672-8-X

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daim, Wilfried at austria-forum.org , accessed on January 15, 2017
  2. ↑ Wilfried Daim: Revaluation of psychoanalysis. Herold Verlag, Vienna 1951, chapter Gott und Götze, pages 129-137
  3. ↑ zeit.de - Referendum against the military . Article dated February 6, 1970, accessed February 16, 2015.
  4. ↑ Joachim Fest : Hitler. Eine Biographie , Berlin 1973, p. 72. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke : The occult roots of National Socialism , Graz 1997, p. 175. Brigitte Hamann : Hitlers Wien , 7th edition Munich 1997, p. 316 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Daim, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian psychologist, psychotherapist, writer and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2016
Place of death Vienna