Rudolph Loewenstein

Rudolph Maurice Loewenstein was born on January 17th, 1898 with Lodz, in Poland. He dies on April 14th, 1976 in New York (the United States).

Biography

After studies of medicine and neurology with Zurich, R. Loewenstein is analyzed with Berlin by Hans Sachs. He becomes member of the German Company of psychoanalysis (DPG) in 1925.

Polyglot, it settles the same year with Paris as a psychoanalyst didactician where it has on his couch of many futures analysts like Blanche Reverchon and Lacan inter alia. In 1926, it is one of the nine psychoanalysts who found the first company of French psychoanalysts: the psychoanalytical Company of Paris (SPP). Among the other founders, one notes Rene Laforgue, the princess Marie Bonaparte who accommodated it has Paris, Raymond de Saussure and Angelo Hesnard. He is elected secretary of the SPP. In 1927, it takes part in the creation of the French Revue of psychoanalysis . In 1930, it obtains its naturalization and starts again the whole of its studies (baccalaureat, doctorate in medicine, thesis supported in 1935). But in 1939 it is mobilized as doctor in the French Army. After the armistice, it takes refuge in the south of France and share for the United States. It will settle quickly with New York.

It then makes a brilliant institutional career within the International association of psychoanalysis (IPA) at the point become about it the vice-president of 1965 to 1967.

Intellectual course

R. Loewenstein wrote several works but it is especially known to be one of the large promoters, with Ernst Kris and Heinz Hartmann of what was called the Ego-psychology.

According to this summarized theory it is necessary to rather privilege the Me than the Inconscient and to make the center of the psychic life of it. The psychoanalytical cure should work to promote the autonomous Me .

DEBATEs

the Ego-psychology was strongly fought in Europe amongst other things, where for example Lacan made this theoretical orientation off a paradigmatic example of the diverting of the message freudien to the profit of a normative and adaptive psychoanalysis to the American way life . We will probably never know which share of this judgment came from the misadventures of its analysis with Loewenstein.
In Marilyn last meetings , the novelist psychoanalyst Michel Schneider (Interallied Price 2006) tells the psychoanalysis of Marilyn Monroe carried out with Ralph Greenson. Its panorama of the psychoanalysis in Hollywood teaches us that the husband writer of Marilyn, Arthur Miller, was psychoanalyzed by Rudolph Loewenstein.

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