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Wilhelm Stekel

(Stekel, Wilhelm, 1868-1940)

International Psychoanalytic Congress, Weimar. Photograph, 1911. Front row left to right: 1) Poul Bjerre 2) Eugen Bleuler 3) Maria Moltzer, Zürich 4) Maria Gincburg (i.e. Mira Oberholzer geb. Gincburg (1884-1949), Schaffhausen) 5) Lou Andreas-Salomé 6) Beatrice M. Hinkle 7) Emma Jung 8) M. von Stack, i.e. Maria von Stach 9) Toni Wolff 10) Martha Böddinghaus, München, i.e. Martha Sigg-Böddinghaus 11) Franz Riklin; Second row, left to right: 1) Otto Rank 2) Ludwig Binswanger 3) O. [Oskar?] Rothenhäusler, Rorschach 4) Isidor Sadger 5) Oskar Pfister 6) Sándor Ferenczi 7) Sigmund Freud 8) Carl Gustav Jung 9) Karl Abraham 10) unknown 11) Wilhelm Wittenberg, München 12) James J. Putnam 13) Ernest Jones 14) Wilhelm Stekel; Third row, left to right: 1) Jan Nelken 2) Ludwig Jekels 3) Max Eitingon 4) Leonhard Seif 5) Karl Landauer 6) A. Stegmann, Dresden 7) unknown 8) unknown 9) Guido Brecher, Meran 10) Alfred von Winterstein, Wien 11) Johannes Jaroslaw Marcinowski; Fourth row: 1) Rudolf Foerster, Berlin 2) unknown 3) Abraham Arden Brill 4) Alphonse Maeder 5) Jan Egbert Gustaaf van Emden, Leiden 6) Paul Federn 7) unknown 8) unknown 9) Adolf Keller; Fifth row: 1) Eduard Hitschmann 2) unknown 3) unknown 4) unknown
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Wilhelm Stekel (German: [ˈʃteːkəl]; 18 March 1868 – 25 June 1940) was an Austrian physician and psychologist, who became one of Sigmund Freud's earliest followers, and was once described as "Freud's most distinguished pupil". According to Ernest Jones, "Stekel may be accorded the honour, together with Freud, of having founded the first psycho-analytic society". However, a phrase used by Freud in a letter to Stekel, "the Psychological Society founded by you", suggests that the initiative was entirely Stekel's. Jones also wrote of Stekel that he was "a naturally gifted psychologist with an unusual flair for detecting repressed material". Freud and Stekel later had a falling-out, with Freud announcing in November 1912 that "Stekel is going his own way". A letter from Freud to Stekel dated January 1924 indicates that the falling out was on interpersonal rather than theoretical grounds, and that at some point Freud developed a low opinion of his former associate. He wrote: "I...contradict your often repeated assertion that you were rejected by me on account of scientific differences. This sounds quite good in public but it doesn't correspond with the truth. It was exclusively your personal qualities—usually described as character and behavior—which made collaboration with you impossible for my friends and myself." Stekel's works are translated and published in many languages. (From Wikipedia)

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