Fenichel, Otto

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Birth 1897-12-02
Death 1946-01-22
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Biography

Fenichel was born on December 2, 1897 in Vienna; MD, University of Vienna, 1921; at age 17, decided to become a psychoanalyst and began his training while a medical student; moved to Berlin in 1922 to complete his training at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute; appointed an assistant (1923) and a training analyst (1925) at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Clinic; traveled to the Soviet Union in 1929 and 1932; in 1933 went to Oslo to undertake the training of psychoanalysts, and did the same in Prague two years later; fleeing the Nazis, he moved to Los Angeles in 1938; Fenichel was a Marxist, and insisted that psychology needed to be studied in a societal context; publications include The Outline of Clinical Psychoanalysis (1934), Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique (1941) and The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (1945); he died on January 22, 1946.

From the guide to the Otto Fenichel Papers, 1903-1953, (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.)

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Otto Fenichel

1897, Dec. 2 Born, Vienna, Austria 1921 M.D., University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 1922 Moved to Berlin, Germany, to complete training at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute 1923 1925 Assistant and training analyst at Berlin Psychoanalytic Clinic, Berlin, Germany 1926 Married Clare Nathansohn (divorced 1940) 1929 Traveled to the Soviet Union (also in 1932 and 1934) 1933 Left Berlin, Germany, because of political climate Moved to Oslo, Norway, to train psychoanalysts 1934 Published The Outline of Clinical Psychoanalysis (New York: Psychoanalytic Quarterly Press and W. W. Norton Co. 492 pp.) 1935 Moved to Prague, Czechoslovakia, to train psychoanalysts 1938 Immigrated to Los Angeles, Calif. 1939 Published Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique (Albany, New York: Psychoanalytic Quarterly Press. 130 pp.) 1940 Married Hanna Heilborn 1945 Published The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 703 pp.) 1946, Jan. 22 Died, Los Angeles, Calif. 1953 1954 Posthumous publication of Collected Papers of Otto Fenichel (New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 2 vols.)

From the guide to the Otto Fenichel and Hanna Fenichel Papers, 1934-1953, (bulk 1938-1945), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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