Willi Hoffer
Willi Hoffer · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychoanalyst known for research on early childhood development
1897, Luditz, Austria-Hungary (now Žlutice, Czech Republic) — 1967, London, England
Austria (Vienna) · United Kingdom (London)
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Austrian-British psychoanalyst, a close member of the Vienna circle around Sigmund and Anna Freud. He is known for research on early-childhood ego development — especially the infant's 'mouth-hand' relation and the differentiation of self from non-self — and edited the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. A Jew, he left Vienna for London with the Freud circle in 1938 and later served as president of the British Psychoanalytical Society.
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Psychoanalyst known for research on early childhood development
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