Background
Loewenstein, Rudolph Maurice was born on January 17, 1898 in Lodz, Poland. Son of Maurice and Charlotte (Taube) Loewenstein.
Psychoanalyst psychologist translator
Loewenstein, Rudolph Maurice was born on January 17, 1898 in Lodz, Poland. Son of Maurice and Charlotte (Taube) Loewenstein.
Doctor of Medicine, University Berlin, 1923, U. Paris, 1935.
After studying medicine and neurology in Zurich, Loewenstein was analyzed in Berlin by Hans Sachs. The same year he began to practice as a teaching analyst in Paris, where he trained a number of future analysts, including, notably, Jacques Lacan (between 1933 and 1939). In 1926, he founded the first French psychoanalytic society, the Société psychanalytique de Paris (SPP), along with eight other psychoanalysts, including René Laforgue, Marie Bonaparte, Raymond de Saussure, and Angelo Hesnard.
He was elected secretary of the SPP. In 1927, he participated in the creation of the Revue française de psychanalyse.
And in 1928 translated (with Marie Bonaparte) Freud"s case-study of Dora. In 1939, he was mobilized as a doctor in the French army.
After the Armistice, he fled to the south of France, and in 1942 left there for the United States, where he settled in New New York There he pursued a distinguished institutional career with the International Psychoanalytic Association (Indian Pharmacist Association), becoming its vice president from 1965 to 1967.
Loewenstein is known, along with Ernst Kris and Heinz Hartmann, as one of the foremost figures of what has been called Ego psychology.
In 1930, he became a French citizen and began his studies anew - defending his thesis for a doctorate in medicine in 1935.
Served as Medecin de Bataillon with French Army, 1939-1940. Member American Medical Association, New York State, New York County medical societies, New York Psychoanalytic Society (life.
Married Elisabeth R. Geleerd. Children-Dominique-Therèse Loewenstein Kulko, Elisabeth-Charlotte Loewenstein Novick, Marie-Françoise Loewenstein Galizia, Richard Joseph.