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In response to your enquiry, esteemed Herr Cotta, as to whether a monument … should be erected to the memory of our Schiller, I can for the present say no more than this … [:] I am convinced that art, should it ally itself with pain, ought to excite the latter only in order to mitigate it and resolve it into higher consoling feelings; and with this in mind I shall seek to represent not so much what we have lost as what remains to us (Goethe to Cotta, 1 June 1805).
I am to speak here of my brother, whom … my eyes no longer behold, but who is yet beside me at night in my dreams, when I have no notion of his decease. So let us keep him in our minds by a bundle of memories, which, however, as may be expected in this company, are confined almost exclusively to his scientific activity (Jacob Grimm's commemorative address for his brother Wilhelm at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin on 5 July 1860).
Wolfgang Loch was born in Berlin on 10 May 1915 and died in Rottweil on 7 February 1995. My own acquaintance with him was as a student attending his lectures, as a psychoanalytic candidate in supervision, as senior physician in the department he headed, and as a colleague and friend who never on that account ceased to be his pupil.
He possessed wit and humour, a deep sympathy with his fellow-men and immeasurable intelligence. He had a fondness for eccentric positions. The most complicated subjects were grist to his mill and he expected his readers to grapple with them. Yet in his day-to-day clinical work he was renowned for the utter simplicity of his statements. He was a man of theory and of practice, a benevolent doctor and academic teacher, who established a chair of psychoanalysis at the University of Tübingen. He made substantial contributions to the development of the Balint Group method (Loch, 1995a). A founder member of the Stuttgart-Tübingen Psychoanalytic Study Group, he was its first President. For more than twenty years he was one of the editors of the Jahrbuch de