Kate Friedlander (born Käte Frankl; also Käte Misch-Frankl or Kate Friedländer-Frankl; 1902–1949) was a
psychoanalyst
PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious processes and their influence on conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on dream interpretation, psychoanalysis is also a talk th ...
, who left Germany for England in 1933, and became a member of the
British Psychoanalytical Society
The British Psychoanalytical Society was founded by Ernest Jones as the London Psychoanalytical Society on 30 October 1913. It is one of several organisations in Britain training psychoanalysts.
The society has been home to a number of psych ...
.
Training and contributions
Analysed by
Hanns Sachs
Hanns Sachs (; 10 January 1881, in Vienna – 10 January 1947, in Boston) was one of the earliest psychoanalysts, and a close personal friend of Sigmund Freud. He became a member of Freud's Secret Committee of six in 1912, Freud describing him as ...
, Friedlander placed herself squarely in the tradition of psychoanalysis represented by
Anna Freud
Anna Freud CBE ( ; ; 3 December 1895 – 9 October 1982) was a British psychoanalyst of Austrian Jewish descent. She was born in Vienna, the sixth and youngest child of Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays. She followed the path of her father a ...
, and encouraged her in establishing the
Hampstead Clinic for child therapy, as well as working herself in parallel outreach institutions.
Among her theoretical contributions were an exploration of
libidinal elements in the wish to die - the
Death drive
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- and an examination of female masochism through the figure of
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Nicholls (; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855), commonly known as Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ), was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë family, Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novel ...
.
She also wrote on the link between crime, and defects in the development of
ego/superego.
Family
She was the mother of philosopher
Sybil Wolfram
Sybil Wolfram (born Sybille Misch; 1 July 1931 – 26 July 1993) was an English philosopher and writer, of Austrian Jewish origin. She studied at Somerville College, Oxford and was a Fellow and Tutor in philosophy at Lady Margaret Hall at Univ ...
(born Sybille Misch). The scientist and entrepreneur
Stephen Wolfram
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and technologist
Conrad Wolfram
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are her grandchildren.
Selected writings
*___'On the Longing to Die', ''International Journal of Psycho-Analysis'' XXI (1940)
*___'Children's Books and their Function in Latency and Puberty' ''American Imago'' III (1942)
*___''The Psycho-Analytic Approach to Juvenile Delinquency'' (1947)
See also
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Annie Reich
Annie Reich (; ; 9 April 1902 – 5 January 1971) was a Viennese-born psychoanalyst who became a leading analytic theorist in post-war New York.
Life
Born Annie Pink to a wealthy Jewish family, Annie Reich took a degree in medicine from 1921 to ...
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August Aichhorn
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Controversial discussions
The controversial discussions were a protracted series of meetings of the British Psychoanalytical Society which took place between October 1942 and February 1944 between the Viennese school and the supporters of Melanie Klein. They led to a tripar ...
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Oceanic feeling
In a 1927 letter to Sigmund Freud, Romain Rolland coined the phrase "oceanic feeling" to refer to "a sensation of 'eternity, a feeling of "Nonduality (spirituality), being one with the external world as a whole", inspired by the example of Rama ...
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Otto Fenichel
Otto Fenichel (; 2 December 1897, Vienna – 22 January 1946, Los Angeles) was an Austrian psychoanalyst of the so-called "second generation". He was born into a prominent family of Jewish lawyers.
Education and psychoanalytic affiliations
Otto ...
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Paula Heimann
Paula Heimann (née Klatzko; 2 February 1899 – 22 October 1982) was a German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, who established the phenomenon of countertransference as an important tool of psychoanalytic treatment.
Life in Germany
Born in ...
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Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich ( ; ; 24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian Doctor of Medicine, doctor of medicine and a psychoanalysis, psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author of several in ...
References
External links
"Kate Friedländer" at Psychoanalytikerinnen.de
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1902 births
1949 deaths
British psychoanalysts
Freudian psychology
Analysands of Hanns Sachs
German emigrants to the United Kingdom