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institution1902–1938

Vienna Psycho-Analytical Society

Disciplines:
psychology
psychoanalysis

Summary

The original Wednesday Psychological Society (later Vienna Psycho-Analytical Society) founded by Freud in 1902, the first institutional home of psychoanalysis and the training ground for its founding generation.

Core Contribution

Incubated the first generation of psychoanalysts — Jung, Adler, Rank, Ferenczi, Abraham — through weekly case discussions that generated the core theoretical debates of early psychoanalysis.

Historical Influences

Sigmund Freud

Intellectual Lineage

Psychoanalytic Movement Viennese Intellectual Culture

Contemporaries & Peers

International Psycho-Analytic Association Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Psychoanalytic training modelInternational psychoanalytic movement

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