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Edmund Bergler

Born

in Vienna, Austria

July 20, 1899

Died

February 06, 1962

Website

http://edmundbergler.ca/

Genre

Psychology, Art, Poetry

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Edmund Bergler (1899 - 1962), an Austrian Jew, fled the Nazis in 1937-38 to live and practice in New York City. He wrote 25 psychology books along with 273 articles that were published in leading professional journals.

Bergler's contribution to psychoanalytic thought was remarkable. Delos Smith, science editor of United Press International, said Bergler was "among the most prolific Freudian theoreticians after Freud himself."

He extended and made clinically usable several of Freud's later concepts, including
superego cruelty, unconscious masochism, and the importance of the pre-oedipal oral mother-attachment.

Hitschmann spoke of his "extraordinary talent for the specialty of psychoanalysis . . . his command of the entire subject matter, his Edmund Bergler (1899 - 1962), an Austrian Jew, fled the Nazis in 1937-38 to live and practice in New York City. He wrote 25 psychology books along with 273 articles that were published in leading professional journals.

Bergler's contribution to psychoanalytic thought was remarkable. Delos Smith, science editor of United Press International, said Bergler was "among the most prolific Freudian theoreticians after Freud himself."

He extended and made clinically usable several of Freud's later concepts, including
superego cruelty, unconscious masochism, and the importance of the pre-oedipal oral mother-attachment.

Hitschmann spoke of his "extraordinary talent for the specialty of psychoanalysis . . . his command of the entire subject matter, his scientific acumen and literary erudition." Considered "one of the few original minds among the followers of Freud," Bergler presented his main ideas in The Basic Neurosis, in which he summarized his massive original contribution to the field.

Throughout his considerable body of written work, lucid case summaries in each book reveal clinical brilliance and a highly effective analytic technique. His own writing, as well as productive collaborations with Jekels, Eidelberg, Winterstein, and Hitschmann,
included works on theory and technique.

Bergler was Freud’s assistant director at the Vienna clinic in the 1930s, and is among the first generation of psychoanalyists after Freud. The centerpiece of Freudian psychoanalysis was initially the Oedipus complex; but Bergler notes that, over time, Freud began to realize how important the pre-Oedipal phase was in human development- particularly the earliest- oral- phase.

Unfortunately, many of Freud’s (and Bergler’s) predecessors have not followed
their lead: (p. 57)* “One sometimes has the impression that some colleagues treat everything ‘beyond Oedipus and the libido’ as unwelcome and bothersome intruders.” and (p. 62): “Prevailing analytic opinion failed to accept that substructure de facto and relegated pre-oedipality to a footnote.” Bergler certainly didn’t. On the contrary, the pre-Oedipal phase was the central feature of his work. In this essay, we will attempt to outline why he considered the pre-Oedipal to be so important.

"Bergler, Edmund (1899-1962)." International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. . Retrieved July 23, 2018 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/psycholog...

* Almost all material included (with the exception of the Appendix) are quotes from Bergler's "Curable and Incurable Neurotics" (1961). ...more

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	Divorce Won't Help 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1979 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Tensions Can Be Reduced to Nuisances: A Technique for Not-Too-Neurotic People 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1960 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Curable and Incurable Neurotics 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1972 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homosexuality: Disease or Way of Life 2.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fashion and the Unconscious 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Superego: Unconscious Conscience, the Key to the Theory & Therapy of Neurosis it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1989 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Every writer, without exception, is a masochist, a sadist, a peeping Tom, an exhibitionist, a narcissist, an 'injustice collector' and a depressed person constantly haunted by fears of unproductivity.”
― Edmund Bergler

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“Writers are fortunate in that they are able to treat their neurosis every day by writing and as soon as the writer is blocked—this is catastrophic because the writer will start to go to pieces.”
― Edmund Bergler, The Writer and Psychoanalysis

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“Many a person cannot bear the thought of being completely controlled by the unconscious.”
― Edmund Bergler, The Writer and Psychoanalysis

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