Dr. Rudolph Loewenstein was a leading psychoanalyst best known for his work on anti-semitism and on the unconscious ego.
Dr. Rudolph Maurice Loewenstein (January 17, 1898 – April 14, 1976) was born in in Łódź in present-day Poland. He studied medicine and neurology in Zurich,and in 1925 he began to practice as a teaching analyst in Paris. In 1926 he co-founded the first French psychoanalytic society, the Société psychanalytique de Paris (SPP). In 1942 emigrated to the United States, where he settled in New York. There he became involved in various professional organizations, including the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), of which he was vice president from 1965 to 1967. A fluent polyglot, he became one of the developers of the new American psychoanalytic school of the 1950s.
Rudolph Maurice Loewenstein appears in the following:
Freud: Man and Scientist (40th Freud Memorial Lecture)
Saturday, May 19, 1951
