Hanns Sachs was one of those psychoanalysts who didn’t fit the traditional model of the first generation of psychoanalysis. Although his name is not so well known, he made important contributions to Freud’s doctrine. In particular, he was an excellent trainer of psychoanalysts and also applied psychoanalytic theory to works of art.
Unlike other peers, Hanns Sachs had a carefree attitude to life, which allowed him to adapt very well to various situations and generated many sympathies, but he also received a strong comment from Freud on this subject.
- He had a great weakness for seduction and was a lover of good wine and good food.
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- He was also passionate about literature.
“Dude, the poet’s real job is to write and interpret dreams. He believes that the safest illusion lives in the dream of human beings. The art of making verses and poetization tell the truth of dreams?Hanns Sachs?
Hanns Sachs is also considered one of the best biographers of Sigmund Freud, who published memoirs in 1945, in which his great affection and admiration for the father of psychoanalysis is recorded, a text that was a must for those who subsequently wrote the history of this humanist trend.
Hanns Sachs, like most first-generation psychoanalysts, comes from a Jewish family. His father was a very useful lawyer, who enjoyed a strong economic position. Schs was born in Vienna, Austria, on January 10, 1881; He studied law at the University of Vienna and obtained his doctorate in 1904.
He practiced his profession without difficulty, but when he read Sigmund Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, he felt a growing passion for psychoanalysis, and was so moved that he decided to deepen this doctrine, so he began to participate regularly in Freud’s lectures. One day, he decided to visit him and took as a gift a translation of the barracks ballad, Rudyard Kipling.
So began a friendship that lasted forever. Hanns Sachs became fascinated by Sigmund Freud, began visiting him and in 1909 joined the famous psychology society on Wednesday, where he became an Orthodox follower of Freud’s thesis, until the end of his days.
Hanns Sachs has also joined the so-called “Secret Committee. “He was undoubtedly one of Freud’s closest disciples. Together with Otto Rank, he founded Imago magazine and became its editor since 1912. This flagship journal of psychoanalysis seeks to extend Freud’s thesis to all areas of the social sciences.
In 1920 Sachs moved to Berlin, where he began to carry out activities as a trainer of new psychoanalysts, through his hands passed countless aspirants who saw him as a great master; in fact, Erich Fromm did his teaching psychoanalysis with Hanns Sachs. At the time, the regulation of this work was very flexible, it was not uncommon for Sachs to go on vacation with his students and his patients.
He was so impressed with Freud that he placed a bust in his office, facing the couch where he treated his patients. In 1925, with Karl Abraham, he participated in the writing of a screenplay for silent films. The result was The Mysteries of the Soul, considered the first film inspired by Freudian postulates.
Hanns Sachs was invited by the Boston Psychoanalytic Society to give lectures in 1932 and took advantage of the situation to settle in the United States, feeling the atrocities of the progressive rise of the Nazis; He also knew that American psychoanalysts were suspicious of those who did the analysis without being doctors, so he demanded a guarantee of eight daily sessions.
While he never stopped having contact with Orthodox psychoanalysts, Hanns Sachs was one of the migrant psychoanalysts who best suited life in america, consolidating a comfortable and luxurious life.
That is why Freud, in one of his letters, refers to him harshly, observing: “The vulgar side that has always been present in him has become even clearer. A true new rich, fat, pretentious, snobbish, bewitched by the United States or seduced by the great successes it has achieved?
Despite this, Hanns Sachs’ affectionate biography of Freud shows that he has always loved and admired his great teacher. Similarly, Freud quotes him directly in the book Psychology of the Masses, who once called him “the only friend I have America. “Sachs died on January 10, 1947 in Boston.