(January 17, 1898, in Łódź, Congress Poland, Russian Empire - April 14, 1976, in New York City) was a Polish-French-American psychoanalyst.
Rudolph Loewenstein
Biography
After studying medicine and neurology in Zurich, Loewenstein was analyzed in Berlin by Hans Sachs. He became a member of the German Psychoanalytic Society (DPG) in 1925. The same year he began to practice as a teaching analyst in Paris, where he trained a number of future analysts, including, notably, Jacques Lacan. In 1926, he founded the first French psychoanalytic society, the Société psychanalytique de Paris (SPP), along with eight other psychoanalysts, including René Laforgue, Marie Bonaparte, Raymond de Saussure, and Angelo Hesnard. He was elected secretary of the SPP. In 1927, he participated in the creation of the Revue française de psychanalyse.
In 1930, he became a French citizen and began his studies anew - defending his thesis for a doctorate in medicine in 1935. In 1939, he was mobilized as a doctor in the French army. After the Armistice, he fled to the south of France and from there left for the United States, where he settled in New York. There he pursued a distinguished institutional career with the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), becoming its vice president from 1965 to 1967.
Loewenstein is known above all as one of the foremost figures, with Ernst Kris and Heinz Hartmann, of what has been called Ego
Literary works
Origine du masochisme et la théorie des pulsions, 1938
The vital or somatic drives, 1940
Psychanalyse de l'Antisemitisme, 1952
(ed. with Heinz Hartmann and Ernst Kris), Notes on the theory of aggressions, 1949
External links
Works by or about Rudolph Loewenstein (psychoanalyst) in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
www.nmgpsy.com内蒙古心理网Most widely held works about Rudolph Maurice Loewenstein
Records, 1945-1979, 1946-1965 (bulk) by New York Psychoanalytic Institute( )
Reminiscences of Rudolph Maurice Loewenstein : oral history, 1965 by Rudolph Maurice Loewenstein( )
Psychoanalysts oral history interviews, 1962-1985 by New York Psychoanalytic Institute( )
Records of the International Psycho-Analytical Association, 1933-1971 (bulk 1965-1970) by International Psycho-Analytical Association( )
Elisabeth R. Geleerd papers, 1927-1969 (bulk 1945-1969) by Elisabeth R Geleerd( )
Berta Bornstein papers, 1933-1971 (bulk 1945-1970) by Berta Bornstein( )
Anna Freud papers, 1880-1995 (bulk 1946-1982) by Anna Freud( )
Princess Marie Bonaparte papers, 1889-1962 (bulk 1913-1961) by Marie Bonaparte( )
Records, 1933-1971 (bulk 1965-1970) by International Psycho-Analytical Association( )
Papers, 1880-1988 (bulk 1946-1982) by Anna Freud( )
Papers, 1927-1969 (bulk 1945-1969) by Elisabeth R Geleerd( )
