Kate Friedlander (born Käte Frankl; also Käte Misch-Frankl or Kate Friedländer-Frankl; 1902–1949) was a pioneering female
psychoanalyst
PsychoanalysisFrom Greek language, Greek: + . is a set of Theory, theories and Therapy, therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a bo ...
, who left Germany for England in 1933, and became a member of the
British Psychoanalytical Society
The British Psychoanalytical Society was founded by the British neurologist Ernest Jones as the London Psychoanalytical Society on 30 October 1913. It is one of two organizations in Britain training psychoanalysts, the other being the British P ...
.
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 (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 and contribu ...
, 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
In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive (german: Todestrieb) is the drive toward death and destruction, often expressed through behaviors such as aggression, repetition compulsion, and self-destructiveness.Eric Berne, ''Wha ...
- and an examination of female masochism through the figure of
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.
She enlisted i ...
.
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 (born Sybille Misch). The scientist and entrepreneur
Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram (; born 29 August 1959) is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman. He is known for his work in computer science, mathematics, and theoretical physics. In 2012, he was named a fellow of the American Ma ...
and technologist
Conrad Wolfram
Conrad Wolfram (born 10 June 1970) is a British technologist and businessman known for his work in information technology and mathematics education reform. In June 2020, Wolfram released his first book, ''The Math(s) Fix: An Education Blueprin ...
are her grandchildren.
[Smith, M. E. (1993). Obituary. Anthropology Today, 9(6), 22–22. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/2783224]
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
*
Annie Reich
Annie Reich (; 9 April 1902 – 5 January 1971) was a Vienna, Viennese-born Psychoanalysis, psychoanalyst who became a leading analytic theorist in post-war New York City, New York.
Life
Born Annie Pink to a wealthy Jewish family, Annie Reich to ...
*
August Aichhorn
August Aichhorn (July 27, 1878, Vienna – October 13, 1949, Vienna) was an Austrian educator and psychoanalyst.
Early life
Aichhorn's father had had a career in the banking system of Austria, but it ended with the long depression which began i ...
*
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 ...
*
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 " being one with the external world as a whole", inspired by the example of Ramakrishna, among other mysti ...
*
Otto Fenichel
Otto Fenichel (2 December 1897 in Vienna – 22 January 1946 in Los Angeles) was a psychoanalyst of the so-called "second generation".
Education and psychoanalytic affiliations
Otto Fenichel started studying medicine in 1915 in Vienna. Already ...
*
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 into ...
*
Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich ( , ; 24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian Doctor of Medicine, doctor of medicine and a psychoanalysis, psychoanalyst, along with being a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author ...
References
External links
"Kate Friedländer" at Psychoanalytikerinnen.de
{{DEFAULTSORT:Friedlander, Kate
1902 births
1949 deaths
British psychoanalysts
Freudian psychology
Analysands of Hanns Sachs
German emigrants to the United Kingdom