- Viktor Tausk
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footnotes =Viktor Tausk (1879/1880,
Žilina -July 3 ,1919 ) was a pioneerpsychoanalyst andneurologist . A student and a colleague ofSigmund Freud , he was the earliest exponent of psychoanalytical concepts with regard to clinicalpsychosis and thepersonality of the artist.Career
Tausk had been a lawyer and writer when he began to study medicine in Vienna around 1910. [cite book | author=Clark, Ronald W | title=Freud: The man and the cause | publisher=Cape and Weidenfeld & Nicolson | year=1980, p286] He joined the
Vienna Psychoanalytic Society and soon began to contribute papers.In 1919 after he had stepped out from Freud's shadow, Tausk published a paper on the origin of a delusion common to a wide array of schizophrenic patients, namely that an alien device, malignant and remote, had influenced their thoughts and their behavior. This device was referred to as "the Influencing Machine" and the paper was called "
On the Origin of the ‘Influencing Machine’ in Schizophrenia ". It is the most well known of his publications, reaching beyond his own field of research into others, such asliterary theory for example.Freud and death
On the morning of
July 3 ,1919 afterHelene Deutsch had stopped Tausk’s treatment after Freud had demanded it, and after a complicated ménage à trois with Sigmund Freud andLou Andreas-Salomé , Tausk committed suicide.Freud wrote to Salomé that "I confess that I do not really miss him; I had long realised that he could be of no further service; indeed that he constituted a threat to the future." [Cited in Clark (1980), p399]
elected bibliography
* Victor Tausk. "Sexuality, War and Schizophrenia: Collected Psychoanalytic Papers (Philanthropy and Society)" (1990) ISBN 0-88738-365-3
Books on Viktor Tausk
* Paul Roazen. "Brother Animal: The Story of Freud and Tausk" ISBN 0-8147-7395-8
* Kurt R. Eissler. "Victor Tausk's Suicide" (1983) ISBN 0-8236-6735-9
* Kurt R. Eissler. "Talent and genius: The fictitious case of Tausk contra Freud" (1971)ISBN 0-8021-0089-9References
See also
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Sigmund Freud
*Psychoanalysis
*Helene Deutsch
*Schizophrenia
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