Background
Raymond de Saussure was born in Geneva, the son of the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure.
psychiatrist Psychoanalyst psychologist
Raymond de Saussure was born in Geneva, the son of the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure.
He underwent analysis with Sigmund Freud. During and after the Second World War he lived in New New York In 1952, Saussure returned to Switzerland from the United States.
He founded the Geneva Museum of the History of Science with Marc Cramer and others in 1955.
He founded the European Psychoanalytic Federation with Wilhelm Solms-Rödelheim in 1966, and served as its president until his death. He died in Geneva in 1971.
He was a founding member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society before spending time at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute undergoing analysis with Franz Alexander.