Rudolph Loewenstein
Rudolph Loewenstein · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychoanalyst and co-founder of ego psychology
1898, Łódź, Poland (then Russian Empire) — 1976, New York City, USA
Poland · France · United States
Rudolph Loewenstein is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Psychoanalyst and co-founder of ego psychology
Rudolph Loewenstein was a Polish-born psychoanalyst who, with Heinz Hartmann and Ernst Kris, co-developed ego psychology in a series of influential joint papers. Earlier, in Paris, he had been the training analyst of Jacques Lacan. He was Jewish, worked in France before fleeing the Nazi occupation, and became a central figure in psychoanalysis in the United States.
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Psychoanalyst and co-founder of ego psychology
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
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