Edmund bergler and the harmony of marriage, as well as the nature of homosexuality , considered the most famous theorist of the 1950s, who wrote about homosexuality as a neurotic disease .
| Edmund Bergler | |
|---|---|
| Edmund bergler | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Kolomyia , Austrian Empire |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Brooklyn usa |
| A country |  Austria-Hungary →  USA |
| Scientific field | psychiatry , psychology , psychoanalysis |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna |
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Biography
Edmund Bergler was born in Kolomyia , in Galicia , then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire , into the Jewish family of pharmacist Alexander Bergler and Ernestina, nee Shapira. In 1913 the family moved to Vienna. In World War I, Edmund Bergler was drafted to the front. After demobilization in 1917, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna, where he specialized in 1926 as an intern, and from 1927 began to practice private practice. He studied psychoanalysis with Wilhelm Reich and Helena Deutsch at the Vienna Institute of Psychoanalysts. In 1928 he took part in the work of the Socialist Society for Counseling on Sexual Relations and Sexual Research ( German : Sozialistische Gesellschaft für Sexualberatung und Sexualforschung ), founded by Maria Frischauf (nee Pappenheim) and Wilhelm Reich in Vienna. From 1933 to 1935 he worked as a leading specialist in the clinic of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Union. In 1929, he married Marianne Leitner-Blumberger (1897-1980), who was engaged in photography.
After Austria joined Germany, E. Bergler emigrated to France in November 1938 and then to New York , where he continued his activities as a psychiatrist. Received US citizenship in 1943.
Professional Activities
In subsequent years, Bergler published a lot of materials: about 27 books, of which 24 in English, and almost 300 articles in journals. The Edmund and Marianne Bergler Archives also contain 20 original manuscripts.
His name became known to the general public through publications in the magazines Coronet , Cosmopolitan and Charm . In 1958, Harper's Bazaar magazine published his test-poll “Are You a Money Neurotic?” The most popular were the works on the general topics: “ Freudian Psychoanalysis” , “Super-I” , “Masochism and Oral Phase” , “Sexual Coldness” women ” , “ Impotence in men ”, “ Homosexuality even through humor ” . His main works of this period are Basic Neurosis (1949) and Superego (1952).
Bergler became a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and since 1942 - a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society. Outside of professional activity, he maintained a solitary, alienated lifestyle, had no friends [3] .
Bergler also taught at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, at the Cooper Union , and at the University of Cincinnati . According to very few followers of the Bergler school, Bergler was the only student of Sigmund Freud, who saved traces of the main teachings of Freud in his works and did not create his own school. E. Bergler, despite many of his writings, today is considered forgotten [3] .
Works
- Together with Eduard Hitschmann: Die Geschlechtskälte der Frau: ihr Wesen und ihre Behandlung . Wien: Verl. d. "Ars Medici", 1934
- Talleyrand, Napoleon, Stendhal, Grabbe: psychoanalytisch-biographische Essays . Wien: Internat. Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1935
- Zur Psychologie des Hasardspielers , in: Imago , 22, 1936
- Die psychische Impotenz des Mannes . Bern: Huber, 1937
- Unhappy Marriage and Divorce . Einführung AA Brill . New York: International Universities Press, 1946
- The Psychopathology of Bargain Hunters , in: Journal of Clinical Pathology, 8, 1947, S. 623-627, übersetzt von Eva Borneman: Die Psychopathologie des Gelegenheitsjägers , in: Ernest Borneman : Psychoanalyse des Geldes: eine kritische Untersuchher psychoanalyisc . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1977, S. 336–341.
- The Battle of the Conscience . Washington, DC: Washington Institute of Medicine, 1948
- Divorce Won't Help . New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948
- Conflict in Marriage . New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949
- The Basic Neurosis . New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949
- The Writer and Psychoanalysis . Garden City: Doubleday and Co., 1949
- Money and Emotional Conflicts . Doubleday and Co., 1951
- Neurotic Counterfeit-Sex . New York: Grune & Stratton, 1951
- The Superego . New York: Grune & Stratton, 1952
- Fashion and the Unconscious . New York: Robert Brunner, 1953
- Kinsey's Myth of Female Sexuality: The Medical Facts. New York: Grune and Stratton, 1954
- The Revolt of the Middle-Aged Man . New York: AA Wyn, 1954
- Die Revolte der Fünfzigjährigen . Aus d. Amerikan. übertr. von Alice Meyer. Zürich: Europa Verl., 1955
- Homosexuality: Disease or Way of Life . New York: Hill and Wang, 1956
- Laughter and the Sense of Humor . New York: Intercontinental Medical Book Corp., 1956
- Psychology of Gambling . New York: Hill & Wang, 1957
- Counterfeit-Sex: Homosexuality, Impotence and Frigidity . New York: Grune and Stratton, 1958
- Principles of Self-Damage . New York: The Philosophical Library, 1959
- One Thousand Homosexuals: Conspiracy of Silence, or Curing and Deglamorizing Homosexuals? . Paterson, New Jersey: Pageant Books, 1959
- Tensions Can be Reduced to Nuisances . New York: Collier Books, 1960
- Curable and Incurable Neurotics . New York: Liveright Pub. Co., 1961
- Together with Joost Meerloo: Justice and Injustice . New York: Grune and Stratton, 1963
- Parents Not Guilty . New York: Liveright Pub. Co., 1964
- Selected papers of Edmund Bergler, MD, 1933-1961. . New York: Grune and Stratton, 1969
- The Talent for Stupidity: The Psychology of the Bungler, the Incompetent, and the Ineffectual . 1998 ISBN 978-0-8236-6345-3
Literature
- Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 1 München: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , S. 88
- Elke Mühlleitner: Biographisches Lexikon der Psychoanalyse. Die Mitglieder der Psychologischen Mittwoch-Gesellschaft und der Wiener Psychoanalytischen Vereinigung 1902-1938 . Tübingen: Edition Diskord, 1992 ISBN 3-89295-557-3 , S. 34 f.
Dictionnaire international de la psychanalyse . 2002, Editions Calmann-Lévy
- Uwe Henrik Peters: Psychiatrie im Exil: die Emigration der dynamischen Psychiatrie aus Deutschland 1933–1939 , Kupka, Düsseldorf 1992, ISBN 3-926567-04-X , S. 69
- Joseph Reppen: Edmund Bergler and Psychic Masochism , bei internationalpsychoanalysis.net, 2010
- Gabriele Flory: Edmund Bergler: Leben und Werk . Dissertation, Mainz, Neuro-Psyiatrischen Klinik der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 1976. [nicht eingesehen]
Links
- Bergler, Edmund at the German National Library .
- Edmund Bergler Society in Toronto
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Joseph Reppen: Edmund Bergler and Psychic Masochism Archived March 5, 2016 on the Wayback Machine