John L. Herma: In Memoriam: Two Addresses*

I would like to talk with you about Hans Herma, my friend of two decades-of his childhood on a farm in Slovenia; of his secondary and university education in Vienna, where he had the finest of academic training in philosophy under world-famous leaders of symbolic logic, and in psychology under Karl and Charlotte Buehler; of his first exposure to psychoanalysis; of his witness to the erosion of Austrian socialism and its replacement by Nazi imperialism; of his break with his homeland and flight to Switzerland, where he had the good fortune to join the research group of Jean Piaget; of his immigration to the United States, through the intercession of Lawrence Kubie; of his initiation to American academic life at St. Lawrence University, and his retreat therefrom; of his war service, both military and civilian, during which he was a collaborator of Ernst Kris; of his years of teaching at New York University; of his active participation as a faculty member in various psychoanalytical training institutions-for the past 14 years at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis-and of his years in the private practice of psychotherapy.