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Hans-Jürgen Wirth

Schismatic processes in the psychoanalytic movement and their impact on the formation of theories (PDF)

International Forum of Psychoanalysis 2007; 16: 4-11

Abstract:
Of the first generation of psychoanalysts, Otto Rank was the one to discover how immensely significant the importance of the early mother-child relation is for the psychosocial development of the human being. The basic perspective of the psychoanalytic theory and treatment technique, which had first and foremost before then concentrated on the father, was not broadened until Rank's book The Trauma of Birth and its ... [ mehr ]

Hans-Jürgen Wirth

La famille en tant que patient. Concepts de thérapie familiale psychanalytique en Allemagne (PDF)

DIALOGUE 2006, 2e trimestre, 113-122

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Hans-Jürgen Wirth

The idea of man in psychoanalysis: Creator of his own life or subject to the dark instinctual side of human nature? (PDF)

International Forum of Psychoanalysis 2005; 14: 94-107

Abstract:
The existence of man is distinguished by its split state: man stands in the middle of life yet still has an awareness of his own death. He has to compensate whatever is missing in him naturally at the societal level, created as culture, and at the individual level through creativity. Rank investigated the human »creative drive«, the anthropological aspiration to express oneself in creative works, and to ... [ mehr ]