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NameDr. Wilhelm Wolf Stekel 
Birth18 Mar 1868, Bojan Bukowina
Death25 Jul 1940
Spouses
Birth5 Jan 1873, Vienna, Austria
FatherSalomon Leib Nelken (1845-1908)
MotherAgathe Gitel Feigel Moscisker (1848-1928)
Marriage4 Nov 1894, Vienna
ChildrenGertrude "Trude" Elise (1895-1981)
Erich Paul (1898-1978)
Notes for Dr. Wilhelm Wolf Stekel
{geni:about_me} [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Stekel Wilhelm Stekel] was born March 18, 1868 in Boiany, Bukowina (present day Ukraine). He died June 25, 1940 (aged 72) in London.
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* Volume Stadttempel
* Last Name Stekel First Name Wilhelm Dr. His parents' names are specifically ''not'' listed.
* Last Name Nelken First Name Malvine
Wilhelm Stekel, physician and psychologist, became one of Sigmund Freud's earliest followers, and was once described as "Freud's most distinguished pupil."[1] According to Ernest Jones, "Stekel may be accorded the honour, togetherwith Freud, of having founded the first psycho-analytic society"; while he also described him as "a naturally gifted psychologist with an unusual flair for detecting repressed material."[2] He later had a falling-out with Freud,who announced in November 1912 that 'Stekel is going his own way'[3]. His works are translated and published in many languages.
Career
Born in Boiany, Bukowina, he wrote a book called Auto-erotism: A Psychiatric Study of Onanism and Neurosis, first published in English in 1950. He is also credited with coining the term paraphilia, to replace "perversion."[4] He analysed, among others, the psychoanalysts Otto Gross and A. S. Neill, as well as Freud's first biographer, Fritz Wittels. The latter paid tribute to 'his strange ease in understanding', but commented that 'The trouble with Stekel's analysis was that it almost invariably reached an impasse when the so-called negative transference grew stronger'[5]. His autobiography was published in 1950.
[edit]Contributions to psychoanalytic theory
''Theory of neurosis''
Stekel made significant contributions to symbolism in dreams, 'as successive editions of The Interpretation of Dreams attest, with their explicit acknowledgement of Freud's debt to Stekel'[6]: 'the works of Wilhelm Stekel and others...since taught me to form a truer estimate of the extent and importance of symbolism in dreams[7]. Considering obsessional doubts, Stekel said, In anxiety the libido is transformed into organic and somatic symptoms; in doubt,the libido is transformed into intellectual symptoms. The more intellectual someone is, the greater will be the doubt component of the transformed forces. Doubt becomes pleasure sublimated as intellectual achievement.[8]
Stekel wrote one of a set of three early 'Psychoanalytic studies of psychical impotence' referred to approvingly by Freud: 'Freud had written a preface to Stekel's book'[9]. Related to this may be Stekel's 'elaboration of the ideathat everyone, and in particular neurotics, has a peculiar form of sexual gratification which is alone adequate'[10].
Freud credited Stekel as a potential forerunner when pondering the possibility that (for obsessional neurotics) 'in the order of development hate is the precursor of love. This is perhaps the meaning of an assertion by Stekel (1911 [Die Sprache des Traumes], 536), which at the time I found incomprehensible, to the effect that hate and not love is the primary emotional relation between men'[11]. The same work is credited by Otto Fenichel as establishing 'the symbolic significance of right and left...right meaning correct and left meaning wrong '[12]. Less flatteringly, Fenichel also associated it with 'a comparatively large school of pseudo analysis which held that the patient should be "bombarded" with "deep interpretations"'[13], a backhanded tribute to the extent of Stekel's early following in the wake of his break with Freud.
''Contributions to the theory of fetishism and of perversion''
Stekel contrasted what he called "normal fetishes" from extreme interests, "They become pathological only when they have pushed the whole love object into the background and themselves appropriate the function of a love object, e.g., when a lover satisfies himself with the possession of a woman's shoe and considers the woman herself as secondary or even disturbing and superfluous (p. 3).[4]. In the latter instance, 'Stekel holds that fetichism is the patient's unconscious religion'[14]. "Normal" fetishes for Stekel contributed more broadly to choice of lifestyle: thus 'choice of vocation was actually an attempt to solve mental conflicts through the displacement of them', so that doctors for Stekel 'were "voyeurs who have transferred their original sexual current into the art of diagnosis"'[15].
Complaining of Freud's tendency to indiscretion, Ernest Jones wrote that he had told him 'the nature of Stekel's sexual perversion, which he should not have and which I have never repeated to anyone'[16]. Stekel's 'elaboration ofthe idea that everyone, and in particular every neurotic, has a peculiar form of sexual gratification which is alone adequate'[17] may thus have been grounded in personal experience.
On sado-masochism, 'Stekel has described the essence of the
''Freud's critique of Stekel's theory of the origin of phobias''.
In ''The Ego and the Id'', Freud wrote of the 'high-sounding phrase, "every fear is ultimately the fear of death"' -- associated with Stekel (1908) -- that it 'has hardly any meaning, and at any rate cannot be justified'[19], evidence perhaps (as with psychic impotence and love/hate) of his continuing engagement with the thought of his former associate.
''Personal life''
On 10 June 1893 Stekel graduated from the University of Vienna as a Doctor of General Medicine. After he had managed to get rid of his military obligation, he married Malvine Nelken and opened a general medical practice in 1894 inVienna. From this marriage he had a son and a daughter. His son, Eric-Paul Stekel (1898-1978) was a renowned composer and conductor, who later emigrated to the United States. His daughter Gertrude (born 1895) married in 1919 Fritz Zuckerkandl, the son of Bertha and Emil Zuckerkandl.
Stekel was married twice. He married his 23-years-younger second wife Hilda Stekel Binder (1891-1969, nee Milko) on 14 October 1938, after he had long lived with her. In 1940 Stekel committed suicide in London by taking an overdose of Aspirin. Stekel's autobiography was published posthumously, editied by his former personal assistant Emil Gutheil and his wife Hilda Binder Stekel.
A biographical account appeared in ''The Self-Marginalization of Wilhem Stekel'' (2007) by Jaap Bos and Leendert Groenendijk, which also includes his correspondence with Sigmund Freud. See also L. Mecacci, ''Freudian Slips: The Casualties of Psychoanalysis from the Wolf Man to Marilyn Monroe'', Vagabond Voices 2009, pp. 101-106.
''In popular culture''
It has been speculated that Stekel was the analyst after whom Italo Svevo modeled the narrator in his famous ''Confessions of Zeno.'' He is referenced in the episodes 22 and 26 of ''Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex''. Aquote of his is referenced in the novel ''The Catcher in the Rye'' by J.D. Salinger.
''Further Reading''
Jaap Bos et al, ''The Self-Marginalization of Wilhelm Stekel'' (2007)
''Selected publications''
* Stekel W. (1943). The Interpretation of Dreams: New Developments and Technique. Liveright
* Stekel W., Gutheil E. (1950). The Autobiography of Wilhelm Stekel. Liveright
* Stekel W., Boltz O.H. (1950). Technique of Analytical Psychotherapy. Liveright
* Stekel W., Boltz O.H. (1999 reprint). Conditions of Nervous Anxiety and Their Treatment
* Stekel W., Boltz O.H. (1927). Impotence in the Male: The Psychic Disorders of Sexual Function in the Male. Boni and Liveright
* Stekel W., Van Teslaar J.S. (1929). Peculiarites of Behavior: Wandering Mania, Dipsomania, Cleptomania, Pyromania and Allied Impulsive Disorders. H. Liveright
* Stekel W. (1929). Sadism and Masochism: The Psychology of Hatred and Cruelty. Liveright
* Stekel W. (2003 reprint). Bisexual Love. Fredonia
* Stekel W. (1917). Nietzsche und Wagner, eine sexualpsychologische Studie zur Psychogenese des Freundschaftsgefühles und des Freundschaftsverrates
* Stekel W. (1922). Compulsion and Doubt (Zwang und Zweifel) Liveright
* Stekel W. (1922). The Homosexual Neuroses
* Stekel W. (1911). Die Sprache des Traumes: Eine Darstellung der Symbolik und Deutung des Traumes in ihren Bezeihungen
* Stekel W. (1911). Sexual Root of Kleptomania. J. Am. Inst. Crim. L. & Criminology
* Stekel W. (1961). Auto-erotism: a psychiatric study of masturbation and neurosis. Grove Press
* Stekel W. (1926). Frigidity in women Vol. II. Grove Press
''References''
^ Fritz Wittels, 'Sigmund Freud: His Personality, His Teaching, & His School' (London 1924) p. 17
^ Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (London 1964), p. 312 and p. 402
^ Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for our Time(London 1989) p. 232
^ a b Stekel, Wilhelm (1930), Sexual Aberrations: The Phenomenon of Fetishism in Relation to Sex, translated from the 1922 original German edition by S. Parker. Liveright Publishing.
^ Edward Timms ed., 'Freud and the Child Woman: The Memoirs of Fritz Wittels' (London 1995), p. 113 and 115
^ Gay, p. 173
^ Sigmund Freud, "Preface to the Third Edition", The Interpretation of Dreams (London 1991) p. 49
^ Wilhelm Stekel, "The Doubt", Compulsion and Doubt (London: Peter Nevill, 1950), p. 92.
^ Sigmund Freud, On Sexuality (London 1991) p. 248 and n
^ Wittels, p. 231
^ Sigmund Freud, on Psychopathology (Middlesex 1987), p. 143-4
^ Otto Fenichel, 'The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (London 1946) p. 224
^ Fenichel, p. 25
^ Wittels, Sigmund Freud p. 195n
^ H. Freeman, Seminars in Psychosexual Disorders (1998) p. 55
^ Quoted in Gay, p. 187n
^ wittels, Sigmund Freud p. 231
^ Susan Griffin, Pornography and silence (London 1988) p. 47
^ Sigmund Freud, On Metapsychology (Middlesex 1987), p. 399
^ David Lester, Suicide and the Holocaust (Nova Science Publishers, 2006), p. 63.
^ Staff report (June 28, 1940). WILHELM STEKEL, ONCE FREUD'S AIDE; Former Chief Assistant to the Psychoanalyst Wrote Works on Mental Maladies JOINED ADLER AND JUNG Among 'Disciples' Who Broke With 'Father' of Science-- Theorized on Dictators. New York Times
^ Wertham, Frederic (June 11, 1950). He Worked With Freud. New York Times
^ Staff report (June 3, 1969). Dr. Hilda B. Stekel. New York Times
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M. J. Meaker, "Sudden Endings, 13 Profiles in Depth of Famous Suicides" (Garden, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964), p. 189-203: Ask my patients to forgive me....: Dr. Wilhelm Stekel
[edit]External links
Wilhelm Stekel's article "Poetry and Neurosis. Psychology of the Artist", Heksis 2/2010
Kazimierz Dąbrowski "Remarks on Wilhelm Stekel's Active Psychoanalysis", Heksis 2/2010
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Married, per genteam.at:
* Year 1894 [Nov. 4], Numerative [https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-2579...=MMGD-2MR:n635892581 302]
* Volume Stadttempel
* Last Name Stekel First Name Wilhelm Dr. His parents' names are specifically ''not'' listed.
* Last Name Nelken First Name Malvine
Wilhelm Stekel, physician and psychologist, became one of Sigmund Freud's earliest followers, and was once described as "Freud's most distinguished pupil."[1] According to Ernest Jones, "Stekel may be accorded the honour, togetherwith Freud, of having founded the first psycho-analytic society"; while he also described him as "a naturally gifted psychologist with an unusual flair for detecting repressed material."[2] He later had a falling-out with Freud,who announced in November 1912 that 'Stekel is going his own way'[3]. His works are translated and published in many languages.
Career
Born in Boiany, Bukowina, he wrote a book called Auto-erotism: A Psychiatric Study of Onanism and Neurosis, first published in English in 1950. He is also credited with coining the term paraphilia, to replace "perversion."[4] He analysed, among others, the psychoanalysts Otto Gross and A. S. Neill, as well as Freud's first biographer, Fritz Wittels. The latter paid tribute to 'his strange ease in understanding', but commented that 'The trouble with Stekel's analysis was that it almost invariably reached an impasse when the so-called negative transference grew stronger'[5]. His autobiography was published in 1950.
[edit]Contributions to psychoanalytic theory
''Theory of neurosis''
Stekel made significant contributions to symbolism in dreams, 'as successive editions of The Interpretation of Dreams attest, with their explicit acknowledgement of Freud's debt to Stekel'[6]: 'the works of Wilhelm Stekel and others...since taught me to form a truer estimate of the extent and importance of symbolism in dreams[7]. Considering obsessional doubts, Stekel said, In anxiety the libido is transformed into organic and somatic symptoms; in doubt,the libido is transformed into intellectual symptoms. The more intellectual someone is, the greater will be the doubt component of the transformed forces. Doubt becomes pleasure sublimated as intellectual achievement.[8]
Stekel wrote one of a set of three early 'Psychoanalytic studies of psychical impotence' referred to approvingly by Freud: 'Freud had written a preface to Stekel's book'[9]. Related to this may be Stekel's 'elaboration of the ideathat everyone, and in particular neurotics, has a peculiar form of sexual gratification which is alone adequate'[10].
Freud credited Stekel as a potential forerunner when pondering the possibility that (for obsessional neurotics) 'in the order of development hate is the precursor of love. This is perhaps the meaning of an assertion by Stekel (1911 [Die Sprache des Traumes], 536), which at the time I found incomprehensible, to the effect that hate and not love is the primary emotional relation between men'[11]. The same work is credited by Otto Fenichel as establishing 'the symbolic significance of right and left...right meaning correct and left meaning wrong '[12]. Less flatteringly, Fenichel also associated it with 'a comparatively large school of pseudo analysis which held that the patient should be "bombarded" with "deep interpretations"'[13], a backhanded tribute to the extent of Stekel's early following in the wake of his break with Freud.
''Contributions to the theory of fetishism and of perversion''
Stekel contrasted what he called "normal fetishes" from extreme interests, "They become pathological only when they have pushed the whole love object into the background and themselves appropriate the function of a love object, e.g., when a lover satisfies himself with the possession of a woman's shoe and considers the woman herself as secondary or even disturbing and superfluous (p. 3).[4]. In the latter instance, 'Stekel holds that fetichism is the patient's unconscious religion'[14]. "Normal" fetishes for Stekel contributed more broadly to choice of lifestyle: thus 'choice of vocation was actually an attempt to solve mental conflicts through the displacement of them', so that doctors for Stekel 'were "voyeurs who have transferred their original sexual current into the art of diagnosis"'[15].
Complaining of Freud's tendency to indiscretion, Ernest Jones wrote that he had told him 'the nature of Stekel's sexual perversion, which he should not have and which I have never repeated to anyone'[16]. Stekel's 'elaboration ofthe idea that everyone, and in particular every neurotic, has a peculiar form of sexual gratification which is alone adequate'[17] may thus have been grounded in personal experience.
On sado-masochism, 'Stekel has described the essence of the
''Freud's critique of Stekel's theory of the origin of phobias''.
In ''The Ego and the Id'', Freud wrote of the 'high-sounding phrase, "every fear is ultimately the fear of death"' -- associated with Stekel (1908) -- that it 'has hardly any meaning, and at any rate cannot be justified'[19], evidence perhaps (as with psychic impotence and love/hate) of his continuing engagement with the thought of his former associate.
''Personal life''
On 10 June 1893 Stekel graduated from the University of Vienna as a Doctor of General Medicine. After he had managed to get rid of his military obligation, he married Malvine Nelken and opened a general medical practice in 1894 inVienna. From this marriage he had a son and a daughter. His son, Eric-Paul Stekel (1898-1978) was a renowned composer and conductor, who later emigrated to the United States. His daughter Gertrude (born 1895) married in 1919 Fritz Zuckerkandl, the son of Bertha and Emil Zuckerkandl.
Stekel was married twice. He married his 23-years-younger second wife Hilda Stekel Binder (1891-1969, nee Milko) on 14 October 1938, after he had long lived with her. In 1940 Stekel committed suicide in London by taking an overdose of Aspirin. Stekel's autobiography was published posthumously, editied by his former personal assistant Emil Gutheil and his wife Hilda Binder Stekel.
A biographical account appeared in ''The Self-Marginalization of Wilhem Stekel'' (2007) by Jaap Bos and Leendert Groenendijk, which also includes his correspondence with Sigmund Freud. See also L. Mecacci, ''Freudian Slips: The Casualties of Psychoanalysis from the Wolf Man to Marilyn Monroe'', Vagabond Voices 2009, pp. 101-106.
''In popular culture''
It has been speculated that Stekel was the analyst after whom Italo Svevo modeled the narrator in his famous ''Confessions of Zeno.'' He is referenced in the episodes 22 and 26 of ''Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex''. Aquote of his is referenced in the novel ''The Catcher in the Rye'' by J.D. Salinger.
''Further Reading''
Jaap Bos et al, ''The Self-Marginalization of Wilhelm Stekel'' (2007)
''Selected publications''
* Stekel W. (1943). The Interpretation of Dreams: New Developments and Technique. Liveright
* Stekel W., Gutheil E. (1950). The Autobiography of Wilhelm Stekel. Liveright
* Stekel W., Boltz O.H. (1950). Technique of Analytical Psychotherapy. Liveright
* Stekel W., Boltz O.H. (1999 reprint). Conditions of Nervous Anxiety and Their Treatment
* Stekel W., Boltz O.H. (1927). Impotence in the Male: The Psychic Disorders of Sexual Function in the Male. Boni and Liveright
* Stekel W., Van Teslaar J.S. (1929). Peculiarites of Behavior: Wandering Mania, Dipsomania, Cleptomania, Pyromania and Allied Impulsive Disorders. H. Liveright
* Stekel W. (1929). Sadism and Masochism: The Psychology of Hatred and Cruelty. Liveright
* Stekel W. (2003 reprint). Bisexual Love. Fredonia
* Stekel W. (1917). Nietzsche und Wagner, eine sexualpsychologische Studie zur Psychogenese des Freundschaftsgefühles und des Freundschaftsverrates
* Stekel W. (1922). Compulsion and Doubt (Zwang und Zweifel) Liveright
* Stekel W. (1922). The Homosexual Neuroses
* Stekel W. (1911). Die Sprache des Traumes: Eine Darstellung der Symbolik und Deutung des Traumes in ihren Bezeihungen
* Stekel W. (1911). Sexual Root of Kleptomania. J. Am. Inst. Crim. L. & Criminology
* Stekel W. (1961). Auto-erotism: a psychiatric study of masturbation and neurosis. Grove Press
* Stekel W. (1926). Frigidity in women Vol. II. Grove Press
''References''
^ Fritz Wittels, 'Sigmund Freud: His Personality, His Teaching, & His School' (London 1924) p. 17
^ Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (London 1964), p. 312 and p. 402
^ Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for our Time(London 1989) p. 232
^ a b Stekel, Wilhelm (1930), Sexual Aberrations: The Phenomenon of Fetishism in Relation to Sex, translated from the 1922 original German edition by S. Parker. Liveright Publishing.
^ Edward Timms ed., 'Freud and the Child Woman: The Memoirs of Fritz Wittels' (London 1995), p. 113 and 115
^ Gay, p. 173
^ Sigmund Freud, "Preface to the Third Edition", The Interpretation of Dreams (London 1991) p. 49
^ Wilhelm Stekel, "The Doubt", Compulsion and Doubt (London: Peter Nevill, 1950), p. 92.
^ Sigmund Freud, On Sexuality (London 1991) p. 248 and n
^ Wittels, p. 231
^ Sigmund Freud, on Psychopathology (Middlesex 1987), p. 143-4
^ Otto Fenichel, 'The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (London 1946) p. 224
^ Fenichel, p. 25
^ Wittels, Sigmund Freud p. 195n
^ H. Freeman, Seminars in Psychosexual Disorders (1998) p. 55
^ Quoted in Gay, p. 187n
^ wittels, Sigmund Freud p. 231
^ Susan Griffin, Pornography and silence (London 1988) p. 47
^ Sigmund Freud, On Metapsychology (Middlesex 1987), p. 399
^ David Lester, Suicide and the Holocaust (Nova Science Publishers, 2006), p. 63.
^ Staff report (June 28, 1940). WILHELM STEKEL, ONCE FREUD'S AIDE; Former Chief Assistant to the Psychoanalyst Wrote Works on Mental Maladies JOINED ADLER AND JUNG Among 'Disciples' Who Broke With 'Father' of Science-- Theorized on Dictators. New York Times
^ Wertham, Frederic (June 11, 1950). He Worked With Freud. New York Times
^ Staff report (June 3, 1969). Dr. Hilda B. Stekel. New York Times
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Wilhelm Stekel
M. J. Meaker, "Sudden Endings, 13 Profiles in Depth of Famous Suicides" (Garden, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964), p. 189-203: Ask my patients to forgive me....: Dr. Wilhelm Stekel
[edit]External links
Wilhelm Stekel's article "Poetry and Neurosis. Psychology of the Artist", Heksis 2/2010
Kazimierz Dąbrowski "Remarks on Wilhelm Stekel's Active Psychoanalysis", Heksis 2/2010
Categories: 1868 births | 1940 deaths | People from Novoselytsia Raion | Ukrainian Jews | Psychologists | Freudians | Jewish scientists | Sexologists | Psychoanalysts
This page was last modified on 9 November 2010 at 11:07.
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details.
Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
Suicide by overdose of asprin. A Victim of the Nazi German Holocaust. Added to the project July 2012
=Source=
Suicide and the Holocaust - David Lester