Josef Dvorak

Josef Dvorak ( born January 28, 1934 in Vienna) is an Austrian psychoanalyst, a Catholic theologian (student of Karl Rahner ), co-founder of the Vienna activism and non-fiction author.

Dvorak was at times as a journalist for the Viennese daily newspaper "Kurier " and " Arbeiter-Zeitung ", and is a member of the editorial board of the 1973-1995 FORVM. At least since the early 1960s, he was a therapist in Vienna, from this period is also due his acquaintance with Otto Muehl, who made a discourse analysis with him. In the late 1960s Dvorak was an important intellectual impetus to the left Viennese students and local scene. Early 1970s he wants to have had an encounter with Satan under LSD influence, after which he retired to a farm house in the forest district and began, " Satanic fairs with lots of naked flesh and blood " hold.

In Burgenland and in Bremen Dvorak celebrated in the eighties a modification of the " Missa Phoenix " by the English occultist Aleister Crowley. These happenings were broadcast on Austrian television and Dvorak brought the reputation, even almost stand to Satanism.

Meanwhile, an independent researcher and journalist, Dvorak identifies today itself as " Satanologe " and deals mainly with the history of psychoanalysis, such as Otto Gross and the occult. His 1989 published by Heyne Verlag non-fiction book " Satanism. Black rituals, vicious madness and exorcism, past and present "is considered a standard work of Satanism research.