Rudolph Loewenstein (psychoanalyst)

Rudolph Maurice Loewenstein ( born January 17, 1898 in Łódź, † April 14, 1976 in New York ) was a French-American psychoanalyst. Together with Heinz Hartmann and Ernst Kris, he formed the triumvirate of psychoanalytic ego psychology. In a large number of jointly authored articles refined and extended to psychoanalytic theories.

After studying medicine in Zurich Loewenstein went to Berlin and from there in 1926 to Paris, where he became the training analyst many French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan below them. In 1939 he was drafted as an army doctor in the French army and fled after the Armistice in 1940 to the United States. In New York City he became involved in the International Psychoanalytic Association, the Vice President, he was 1965-1967.

Works

• Origine du masochisme et la théorie of pulsions, 1938
• The vital or somatic drives, 1940
• Psychoanalysis de l' Antisemitisme, 1952 (German psychoanalysis of anti-Semitism )
• Zs with Heinz Hartmann and Ernst Kris: Notes on the theory of aggression, 1949
• For psychoanalysis the black masses, Imago 9 (1923 ), pp. 73-82