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LU-AM 16A(31):37-69 (2003)

Spurensuche zur Geschichte der in die USA emigrierten Wiener Psychoanalytischen Pädagogen

Author: Roland Kaufhold

Abstract

„Die psychoanalytische Bewegung empfanden wir als wahrhaft revolutionäre Bewegung. Als eine Revolution ohne Gewalt, als eine geistige Revolution“ (Rudolf Ekstein).

„Bettelheim: It seemed, at that time (in Vienna) so improbable that psychoanalysis would become such a public interest, and we have so many adherents. At the time, it was a very small group when I came to it, maybe 20 people or thereabout, who formed this international psychoanalytical association. They all knew each other. They were friends - sometimes enemies. But it was a small group, an esoteric group, if you like. (…) Psychoanalysis was seen by its practitioners to be much broader than just working with individual psyches. More than anything, it was seen as a humanistic movement. (…) Though Freud had a certain skepticism about the effectiveness of psychoanalytic therapy, he never had any doubt that psychoanalysis would lead to a deeper understanding of the human psyche and human intellectual life, in which he was very, very much interested. (…) It was a human movement, a humanistic movement more than anything else. It was not a medical movement.
Ekstein: Correct. Freud invested some of his private money he had in his journals.
Bettelheim: It was a pioneer movement.
Ekstein: We thought of each other to be a pioneer.
Bettelheim: Yes.“
(Aus dem letzten Gespräch zwischen Bruno Bettelheim und Rudolf Ekstein am 10.1.1990 in Los Angeles (in: Kaufhold 1993, S. 3, s. Bettelheim/Ekstein 1994).

Auch 50 Jahre nach seiner Vertreibung durch die Nationalsozialisten, nach der Vernichtung des organisatorischen Zentrums der Psychoanalytischen Pädagogik in Wien, war Rudolf Eksteins Erinnerung an die außergewöhnlich produktive Aufbruchphase dieser sozial-aufklärerischen, revolutionär getönten Reformbewegung nicht verblaßt. Dem entspricht auch das dieser Studie vorangestellte Zitat aus dem letzten - englisch geführten - Gespräch zwischen Ekstein und seinem engen Freund und Kollegen Bruno Bettelheim, einige Wochen vor dessen Fre

LU-AM 16A(31):37-69 (2003)

Spurensuche zur Geschichte der in die USA emigrierten Wiener Psychoanalytischen Pädagogen

Author: Roland Kaufhold

Abstract

„Die psychoanalytische Bewegung empfanden wir als wahrhaft revolutionäre Bewegung. Als eine Revolution ohne Gewalt, als eine geistige Revolution“ (Rudolf Ekstein).

„Bettelheim: It seemed, at that time (in Vienna) so improbable that psychoanalysis would become such a public interest, and we have so many adherents. At the time, it was a very small group when I came to it, maybe 20 people or thereabout, who formed this international psychoanalytical association. They all knew each other. They were friends - sometimes enemies. But it was a small group, an esoteric group, if you like. (…) Psychoanalysis was seen by its practitioners to be much broader than just working with individual psyches. More than anything, it was seen as a humanistic movement. (…) Though Freud had a certain skepticism about the effectiveness of psychoanalytic therapy, he never had any doubt that psychoanalysis would lead to a deeper understanding of the human psyche and human intellectual life, in which he was very, very much interested. (…) It was a human movement, a humanistic movement more than anything else. It was not a medical movement.
Ekstein: Correct. Freud invested some of his private money he had in his journals.
Bettelheim: It was a pioneer movement.
Ekstein: We thought of each other to be a pioneer.
Bettelheim: Yes.“
(Aus dem letzten Gespräch zwischen Bruno Bettelheim und Rudolf Ekstein am 10.1.1990 in Los Angeles (in: Kaufhold 1993, S. 3, s. Bettelheim/Ekstein 1994).