Otto Fenichel & Wilhelm Reich: The father and the

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Otto Fenichel & Wilhelm Reich: The father and the hidden uncle of body psychotherapy* By Michael Coster Heller, Dr. Phil Psychologist & Psychotherapist FSP/AVP/EABP Rue du Maupas 10, CH-1004 Lausanne Contact and articles: www.aqualide.ch *A chapter in: Michel Heller, 2008, Les psychothérapies corporelles. Louvain: De Boeck. English version to be published by Norton publishers. Vienna, 12th EABP Congress Even if I summarize the data, the Reich-Fenichel relationship yields so much crucial information that I may not have time to tell you all I would want to. Instead of rushing you through more data than you can take, I will put my power point presentation on my website, next week, so that you can look at the information at a leisurely space. I thank Johannes Reichmayr for some of the facts on Otto Fenichel contained in this presentation. My website: www.aqualide.com 1897: Birth of Otto Fenichel in Vienna, capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire 1915: Otto Fenichel enters the Faculty of medicine in Vienna 1897: Birth of Wilhelm Reich in Galicia, which was the part of Austrian Ukraine 1915: Wilhelm Reich is enrolled in the Austrian army 1916: Otto Fenichel joins Jewish Marxist youth movement, who are fighting for a new way of dealing with sexual politics and morals. Otto Fenichel follows Freud’s conferences. 1919-1921: Otto Fenichel creates the Seminar on sexology in the medical faculty 1918: Wilhelm Reich enters the Faculty of medicine in Vienna. He is an emigrant from the periphery of the empire. 1919-1921: Wilhelm Reich becomes a student in Otto Fenichel’s seminar on sexology in the medical faculty What Wilhelm Reich discovered in Otto Fenichel’s sexual seminar: Youth movements and sexual revolution A humanist form of Marxism Sexology Freud The psychoanalysis of Ferenczi EABP Congress, Vienna 2010 1915: Otto Fenichel enters the Faculty of medicine in Vienna 1916: Fenichel follows Freud’s conferences 1919-1921: Otto Fenichel creates the Seminar on sexology in the medical faculty 1918: Wilhelm Reich enters the Faculty of medicine in Vienna 1919-1921: Wilhelm Reich becomes a student in Otto Fenichel’s seminar on sexology in the medical faculty - Vienna is now the capital of the Austrian Republic. It remains one of the capitals of German culture (e.g. It is still the center of classical psychoanalysis, as Freud is in Vienna). - The German empire becomes the Weimar republic. It now becomes the only important German speaking country. Berlin is gradually becoming the capital of German