Max Eitingon

Max Eitington ( born June 26, 1881 in Mogilev, Russia, † 30 July 1943 in Jerusalem) was a physician and psychoanalyst. He was a faithful follower of Sigmund Freud, and at times the main financier of the psychoanalytic movement. From 1925 to 1932 he served as president of the International Psychoanalytical Association.

Life

Max Eitington was the fourth child of successful tobacco products dealer ( "Fur King of the Leipziger Brühl " ) Eitington Chaim and his wife Alexandra Chasse Lifshitz ( 1861-1929 ) to the world.

Eitington worked with Eugen Bleuler in Zurich and was, even before Carl Gustav Jung, the first psychiatrist to contact his colleague Sigmund Freud recorded because of its newly developed method of psychoanalysis. He was briefly analyzes of this before he settled in Berlin in 1910.

Since 1919 he was a member of the " Secret Committee ", which Freud's closest associate belonged. Along with Karl Abraham in 1920 he founded the psychoanalytic clinic in Berlin, the first facility of its kind in the world, which also cash poor patients offered psychoanalytic treatment. Eitington funded from the family fortune in a considerable extent both the clinic and the International Psychoanalytic Verlag, whereupon Freud's quip that matter: " The best cases of the analysis are the skins of the old Eitington. "

From the Department the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute showed. 1923 led Eitington a training guidelines at the Institute. At the suggestion of Ernst Simmel, a committee to internationally valid guidelines for psychoanalytic training in 1924 under the chairmanship Eitingon founded, whose recommendations on the IX. International Congress in Bad Homburg acquired 1925 general validity. Eitington was elected chairman of the International Training Commission; he remained until his death ..

After he had fled from the Nazis to Palestine, where he founded the Psychoanalytic Association of Palestine. Eitington maintained contact with Freud and visited him several times after 1933 in Vienna.

During the last years of life Eitingon circulated that stubborn, but so far unconfirmed rumor that he should have been a Soviet spy, what Vladimir Nabokov has also written a short story. His cousin Naum Eitington was involved in the contract killing of Trotsky.