Die Außenseiter: Jugendkulturbewegung/Jugendforschung/Psychoanalyse: Das Beispiel Siegfried Bernfeld

Dudek, Peter

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“…RvM was significantly involved in the Berlin faculty decisions. My work complements earlier German accounts of Tenorth (1992, 1999) and Dudek (2012). RvM’s rather distant relationship to Bernfeld’s and S. Feitelberg’s attempt to connect thermodynamics and psychoanalysis (libidometry) confirms RvM’s critical attitude vis-à-vis certain theories of physicalism supported by the Vienna Circle of Logical Empiricism.…”

Section: Introduction and A “Historically Interesting” Letter (1930) ...supporting

confidence: 68%

“…Geiringer’s publications from her youth—that is, before she worked as a mathematician with RvM in Berlin—leave no doubt about her feminist, socialist, and, in part, Marxist convictions. One of these publications (Geiringer 1920) is used in the literature today as an essential source for the description of a short-lived “proletarian school community” (Kinderheim Baumgarten west of Vienna, 1919–20), in which Geiringer herself was involved as a teacher (Dudek 2012). This project was led by the Freud supporter, pedagogue, and socialist Zionist Siegfried Bernfeld (1892-1953) 26…”

Section: Richard Von Mises Hilda Geiringer and Freudmentioning

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A married couple of mathematicians from Vienna remembers Sigmund Freud (1953)

Siegmund-Schultze

2022

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Argument The paper is based on a hitherto unexplored document (audiotape of an interview accompanied by a German transcript) from 1953, located in the Freud Papers at the Library of Congress. It contributes to a better understanding of the impact of Freud and of Psychoanalysis on personalities from the exact sciences, here represented by the noted applied mathematicians Richard von Mises and Hilda Geiringer from Vienna. The detailed discussion of the interview sheds some new light on the different roles of Kraus and Freud in the Vienna culture, on the Vienna Jugendkulturbewegung (youth culture movement) during WWI in which Geiringer was involved, on Freud’s and Siegfried Bernfeld’s standing around 1930 among German philosophers and psychologists, and on Wilhelm Fließ’ theory of periodicity, which von Mises—based on his attitude as an applied mathematician—defended against superficial accusations. Finally, new biographical material is provided for von Mises and the remotely related Freud family, and for Geiringer’s and von Mises’ early lives. The interview, which was taken during the Cold War, also allows conclusions as to how politics influenced the memories and views of the participants. Part of the aim of the paper is historical documentation of unknown material (letters by Karl Kraus and Wolfgang Köhler, one book review by Wilhelm Ostwald, a file on R. Pfennig), including some correction of erroneous information in the literature.

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A married couple of mathematicians from Vienna remembers Sigmund Freud (1953)

Siegmund-Schultze

2022

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“…Bernfeld aimed at suggesting a path between cultural-historical and psychoanalytical perspectives and tried to integrate sociological and psychological questions. However, according to Dudek ( 2012 : 155), this view of youth studies as a multidisciplinary project was not well received in contemporary academic circles, as it did not fit into the conventional structure of the research landscape.…”

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“…He was convinced that “the telephone and the increasingly widespread oral communication made possible by radio” would “noticeably reduce the importance of writing as a value of tradition and absolution” (144). Indeed, the diary had hardly any significance for youth psychology after 1945 (see Dudek 2012 : 154). We can offer an explanation for this loss of significance by looking at Bühler’s preface to the re-edition of her Seelenleben in 1967.…”

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“…These include Gerhard Benetka’s monograph ( 1995 ), a comprehensive contribution to the social and theoretical history of the Vienna Psychological Institute in the period 1922–1938; as well as Rebecca Heinemann ( 2016 ), who provides us with the first broad account of the scientific activities of William Stern as pioneer of child and youth research. Peter Dudek has published several important works on Siegfried Bernfeld (for example 2002 , 2012 ). A new, annotated edition of Bernfeld’s complete works in 16 volumes has been published by Ulrich Herrmann (since 1991).…”

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Diaries as “Soul Portraits”? Interpretation and Theorization of Adolescents’ Self-Descriptions in the German-Speaking Youth Psychology of the 1920s and 1930s

Seemann

2021

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In the first two decades of the twentieth century, the figure of the adolescent (Jugendlicher) was introduced into public discourse in the German-speaking world. The adolescent soon became an epistemic object for the still loosely defined field of psychology. Actors in the slowly differentiating scientific field of youth psychology were primarily interested in the normal development of adolescent subjects and sought out new materials and methods to research the inner life of young people. In order to access this inner life, they turned to the interpretation of diaries and other self-descriptions. This article takes up the questions of how diaries were used in the scientific context of psychology, and how diary writing was psychologically interpreted and theorized. The theoretical and methodological contexts of psychological knowledge production grouped around the subject of the diary will be examined in keeping with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger’s concept of historical epistemology. This analysis is carried out by using the example of three central actors who were in conversation with each other during the 1920s and 1930s: the developmental psychologist Charlotte Bühler (1893–1974), the psychologist and founder of personalistic psychology William Stern (1871–1938), and the youth activist Siegfried Bernfeld (1892–1953), who was influenced by Freudian psychoanalysis.

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Die Außenseiter: Jugendkulturbewegung/Jugendforschung/Psychoanalyse: Das Beispiel Siegfried Bernfeld

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A married couple of mathematicians from Vienna remembers Sigmund Freud (1953)

A married couple of mathematicians from Vienna remembers Sigmund Freud (1953)

Diaries as “Soul Portraits”? Interpretation and Theorization of Adolescents’ Self-Descriptions in the German-Speaking Youth Psychology of the 1920s and 1930s

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