Columbia University, École Libre des Hautes Études, Geneva University
Life
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
ISBN2-908-60288-1)
(1914). De quelques aberrations. Bull. Soc. Lépidopterol., 3: 77-80.
(1919). À propos d'un disciple d'Unternährer. Arch. Psycho., 17: 297-308.
(1920). Litterature 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.
&
Léon Chertok (1979). The Therapeutic Revolution, From Mesmer to Freud. New York: Brunner/Mazel.
References
^H. Vermorel, 'Raymond de Saussure. First president of the European Psychoanalytical Federation', International Journal of Psychoanalysis 79:1 (February 1998), pp.73–81
Alexander Moser: Switzerland. In: Peter Kutter (Hrsg.): Psychoanalysis International. A Guide to Psychoanalysis throughout the World. Bd. 1: Europe. Frommann-Holzboog 1992, ISBN 3-7728-1509-X, S. 278–313, hier S. 298 f.
Marcel Naville, Roger Mayer: Histoire de la Société médicale de Genève, 1823–1993. Genf 1994, 34 f.
Henri Vermorel (d. 2020). Raymond de Saussure (1894–1971): Un des fondateurs de la SPP. In: Revue française de psychanalyse. Bd. 61 (1997), H. 2, S. 673–683.