Hanns Sachs

Hanns Sachs ( born January 10, 1881 in Vienna, † January 10, 1947 in Boston ) was an Austrian psychoanalyst, a lawyer and former employees of Sigmund Freud.

Life

Hanns Sachs, the son of a Jewish lawyer, studied law at the University of Vienna. There he received his doctorate in 1904 and settled in Vienna practiced as a lawyer. After reading of Sigmund Freud's " Interpretation of Dreams", he regularly attended the lectures of Freud and in 1909 a member of the Wednesday Club. Since 1912, he was with Otto Rank editor of the journal " Imago - Journal of the application of psychoanalysis to the humanities." In 1913 he became a member of the " Secret Committee ", which consisted of him, Karl Abraham, Sandor Ferenczi, Ernest Jones and Otto Rank. From 1920 to 1932 he lived and worked in Berlin, where he became the first training analyst, including by Karen Horney and Frieda Reichmann, was at all. In 1925, he and Karl Abraham was scientific advisor for the silent film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst " Secrets of a Soul ".

At an early stage Sachs the dangers of Nazism and emigrated in 1932 to the United States to Boston. There he was from 1939 the magazine " American Imago " out.

Appreciation

Sachs has made significant contributions to the development of a psychoanalytic literary theory in his writings. Reiner Wild, who is preparing an edition of the literary studies and literary theory of Hanns Sachs at the Chair of Modern German Studies at the University of Mannheim, writes: " In these works, the center of the 1924 study published in " Common daydreams forms ", he developed a psychoanalytic literary theory, the the social character of the artwork - as a common, ie collective daydream - Runs Out ".

Works

  • The importance of psychoanalysis for the Humanities. ( with Otto Rank ). In 1913.
  • Ars Amandi psychoanalytica, or, Psychoanalytic love rules. Reuss & Pollak, Berlin 1920.
  • Common daydreams. International psychoanalytic Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig / Wien 1924.
  • Bubi Caligula: life story of Caligula. Bard, Berlin, 1930.
  • For the knowledge of human nature: A psychoanalytic guide for dealing with yourself and others. International psychoanalytic Verlag, Wien 1936.
  • The creative unconscious: Studies in the psychoanalysis of art. Sci -Arts Publishers, Cambridge (Massachusetts ), 1942.
  • Freud: Master and Friend. Imago, London, 1945. Translation: Freud: Master and Friend. Imago, London 1950.
  • Translation: As beings from another planet: The philosophical background of psychoanalysis. Psycho- Social -Verlag, Giessen 2005, ISBN 3-89806-416-6.
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