Raymond de Saussure

BornAugust 2, 1894

Genthod, Switzerland

DiedOctober 29, 1971 (aged 77)

Geneva

OccupationsPsychoanalyst and Professor

Prof. Raymond de Saussure
Born	(1894-08-02)August 2, 1894 Genthod, Switzerland
Died	October 29, 1971(1971-10-29) (aged 77) Geneva
Occupations	Psychoanalyst and Professor
Parent	Ferdinand de Saussure

Academic background
Education	Doctorate in psychiatry
Alma mater	Geneva University
Thesis	(1920)
Influences	Ferdinand de Saussure, Sigmund Freud, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roman Jakobson, Théodore Flournoy, Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault, Adrien Borel, Joseph Babinski, Louise G. Rabinovitch, Rudolph Loewenstein (psychoanalyst), Marie Bonaparte, Jacques Lacan, Helene Deutsch, Karen Horney, Heinz Hartmann, Ernst Kris, René Spitz, Aldous Huxley, William Faulkner,^[1] Léon Chertok, Franz Mesmer.
Academic work
Discipline	Psychoanalyst, Psychiatrist
Institutions	Columbia University, École Libre des Hautes Études, Geneva University

Raymond de Saussure (French: [ʁɛmɔ̃ də sosyʁ]; 2 August 1894 – 29 October 1971) was a Swiss psychoanalyst, the first president of the European Psychoanalytical Federation.^[2] He is the son of the famous linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, and a student of Sigmund Freud.

Raymond de Saussure was born in Geneva, the son of the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. He underwent analysis with Sigmund Freud. He was a founding member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society before spending time at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute undergoing analysis with Franz Alexander. During and after the Second World War he lived in New York City, where he predicted Adolf Hitler's suicide in 1942, due to Hitler's paranoid hysterical state;^[3] in 1952, Saussure returned to Switzerland from the United States.^[4] He founded the Geneva Museum of the History of Science with Marc Cramer and others in 1955.^[5] He founded the European Psychoanalytic Federation with Wilhelm Solms-Rödelheim in 1966, and Saussure served as its president until his death from prostate cancer.^[6]

He died in Geneva in 1971 at the age of seventy-seven years.

Works

La Méthode psychanalytique (préface de Sigmund Freud), Payot, Lausanne-Genève, 1922
« Métapsychologie du plaisir », 1958, (rééd. in Psychothérapie, vol 1, n02, éd.: Médecine et Hygiène, 1981)
Avec Léon Chertok, Naissance du psychanalyste. De Mesmer à Freud, Paris, Payot, 1973, (rééd. Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond / Synthélabo, 1997 ISBN 2-908-60288-1)
(1914). De quelques aberrations. Bull. Soc. Lépidopterol., 3: 77–80.
(1919). À propos d'un disciple d'Unternährer. Arch. Psycho., 17: 297–308.
(1920). Literature Française. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1, 424–426.
(1924). La valeur scientifique de la psychanalyse. L'Encéphale, 19: 509–517.
(1929a). Les fixations homosexuelles chez les femmes nevrosees. Rev. Franç. Psychanal., 3: 50–91.
(1929b). Fragments d'analyse d'un pervers sexuel. Rev. Franç. Psychanal., 3: 631–689.
1930–31). Note sur la pluralité du surmoi. Rev. Franç. Psychanal., 6: 364–403.
(1933). Psychologie génétique et psychanalyse. Rev. Franç. Psychanal., 6: 364–403.
(1934). The Psychology of Laughter. Zeitschrift Für Sozialforschung, 3(3), 435–436. https://doi.org/10.5840/zfs19343327
(1934). Psycho-analysis Today. Zeitschrift Für Sozialforschung, 3(2), 281–281. https://doi.org/10.5840/zfs19343293
(1937). Léopold de Saussure (1866–1925). Isis, 27: 288–305.
(1939). Le miracle grec. Paris: Denoel.
(1942). The psychopathology of Adolf Hitler. Free World, 3, 1, June 1942: 2–6.
(1943). Collective neurosis in Germany. Free World, 5, February 1943: 121–126.
(1943). Transference and Animal Magnetism. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 12(2), 194–201. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674086.1943.11925524
(1950). Tendances actuelles de la psychanalyse. In Évolution et tendances de la psychanalyse. Paris: Hermann, pp. 138–166.
(1954). Mechanisms of Defence and their Place in Psycho-Analytic Therapy: Discussion. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 35(2), 199–201.
1956). Centenaire de la naissance de Freud. Schweiz Zeitschrift fur Psychologie und ihre Anwendungen, 15: 136–139.
(1958). Métapsychologie du plaisir. Rev. Franç. Psychanal., 22: 3-27.
(1965). Les sources subjectives de la théorie du narcissisme chez Freud. Rev. Franç. Psychanal., 29: 473–485.
(1969). The magnetic cure. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 42(2), 141–163. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8341.1969.tb02066.x
& Léon Chertok (1979). The Therapeutic Revolution, From Mesmer to Freud. New York: Brunner/Mazel.

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