1st Edition

Women in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis Girls of Tomorrow

By Anna Borgos Copyright 2021
214 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the life, scholarly oeuvre and intellectual connections of the significant "first generation" Hungarian female psychoanalysts, situating their lives within the wider context of social history and the history of psychoanalysis. Budapest was one of the main centres of psychoanalysis in the early 20th century – in a period which was also central regarding women’s changing... Read more

Preface and Acknowledgements

Chapter One: Psychoanalysis in Hungary

Chapter Two: Women in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis

Chapter Three: From the Galileo Circle to the Pavlov Committee: Lilly Hajdu

Chapter Four: Against the Current: Edit Gyömrői

Chapter Five: Attachment and a Sense of Reality: Alice Bálint

Chapter Six: The "Guardian Angel" of Hungarian Psychoanalysis: Vilma Kovács

Chapter Seven: Child Development and Female Sexuality: Lillián Rotter

Chapter Eight: A Promising Talent: Erzsébet Kardos

Chapter Nine: Further Portraits

Erzsébet Révész

Kata Lévy

Alice Hermann

Margit Dubovitz

Fanny Hann

Lucy Liebermann

Klára G. Lázár

Therese Benedek

Margaret Mahler

Barbara Lantos

Júlia Mannheim

Chapter Ten: Conclusions

Biography

Anna Borgos is a psychologist and women’s historian, working as a research fellow in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Budapest. She holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Pécs. She is the editor in chief of the Hungarian psychoanalytic journal, Imágó Budapest. She has published several books and articles in Hungarian women’s history, mostly connecting to literature, psychoanalysis and sexuality. Most recently she co-edited a volume with Ferenc Erős and Júlia Gyimesi, Psychology and Politics: Intersections of Science and Ideology in the History of Psy-Sciences (2019).