Eugénie Sokolnicka (née ''Kutner''; 14 June 1884,
Warsaw
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– 19 May 1934,
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
) was a French psychoanalyst. An analysand of
Freud
Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts in ...
's, she helped bring
psychoanalysis
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to France in the 1920s, analysing several of the younger psychiatrists at St. Anne's Psychiatric Hospital in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
.
She ended her own life, by gas poisoning.
Works
* ''L'analyse d'un cas de névrose obsessionnelle infantile'', 1920
See also
*
René Laforgue
René Laforgue (5 November 18946 March 1962) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Biography
Laforgue was born in Thann (then part of the German Empire) and died in Paris. He studied medicine in Berlin, and in 1919 wrote a thesis on "The ...
*
Édouard Pichon
Notes
References
* Michelle Moreau-Ricaud: ''Engénie Sokolnicka et
Marie Bonaparte
Princess Marie Bonaparte (2 July 1882 – 21 September 1962), known as Princess George of Greece and Denmark upon her marriage, was a French author and psychoanalyst, closely linked with Sigmund Freud. Her wealth contributed to the popularity ...
'' in Topique n0 115, ed.: L'esprit du Temps,
*
André Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide (; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947). Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the Symbolism (arts), symbolist movement, to the advent o ...
, ''Les faux monnayeurs'', Gallimard, 1925
1884 births
1934 suicides
1934 deaths
French psychoanalysts
Polish emigrants to France
Analysands of Sándor Ferenczi
Analysands of Sigmund Freud
Suicides by gas
Suicides in France
20th-century French psychologists
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