Raymond de Saussure

Raymond de Saussure ( born August 2, 1894 in Genthod, † October 29, 1971 in Geneva) was a Swiss psychoanalyst.

Life

The son of the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure studied literature and philosophy. Under the influence of his father- Théodore Flournoy, he turned to medicine and psychology. In 1919 he was one of the founders of the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis. He published in 1920 in the first issue of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, a summary of the entire French psychoanalytic literature. De Saussure was analyzed by Sigmund Freud, first in 1920 or 1921 for six months. He then wrote the book La méthode psychanalytique, with whom he earned his doctorate in 1922 at the University of Geneva. 1927/28, he was involved in the founding of the Société psychanalytique de Paris. In Berlin he was analyzed by Franz Alexander. In 1937, de Saussure took up residence in Paris, where he analyzed more than two years of Rudolph Loewenstein. Back in Switzerland, he worked in a senior position at the psychiatric clinic Prangins. From 1940 (or 1941) to 1952 he lived in New York, where he came into contact with the ego psychology and worked as a training analyst. In 1952 he returned to Geneva and became a major organizer of psychoanalysis in the Romandie. From 1957 ( or 1960 ) to 1967 he was president of the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis.