Memories of Gustav Ichheiser

Amrei C. Joerchel, Ph.D., was a lecture and a research assistant at the Sigmund Freud University, Vienna until 2017 and is now a program supervisor at the Center for Social Dynamics in the Bay Area, CA, USA, where she was appointed to develop a research division. She is the author of several peer review articles and the co-editor of Biographical Ruptures and their Repairs: Cultural Transitions in Development, published 2014.Gerhard Benetka is a  Professor of Pscyhology and Dean of the Faculty of Psychology at the Sigmund Freud Private University in Vienna.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Finding a biography.- Part I – Historical Perspectives.- Chapter 2. Seclusion – A safe place? Remarks on the biography of an outsider.- Chapter 3. “Who is Ichheiser?” – A Person who Failed himself and the World.- Part II – Moving between Disciplines.- Chapter 4. An “Iron Curtain” between Persons: Gustav Ichheiser’s Theoretical Paradoxes.- Part III– Selected Works from Ichheiser’s German, English, and Polish Papers.- Chapter 5. Being and Appearance: I am not what I appear to be – Ichheiser’s Viennese work on Social Consciousness.- Chapter 6. Appearance and Image in the Perception and Misperception of Self and Other: Ichheiser and Social Psychological Theory.- Chapter 7. The Collages formed by Gustaw Ichheiser’s Polish Texts.- Part IV– Selected Topics: Ichheiser’s primary Fields of Interest.- Chapter 8. Ichheiser’s critique of success and the performance principle in a neoliberal competitive society.- Chapter 9. Ideology of Success andthe Dilemma of Education Today.- Chapter 10. Gustav Ichheiser on Rationality and Irrationality.- Part V– Conclusion.- Chapter 11. Schizophrenia is Taking me Home: Gustav Ichheiser’s Uprooting and his Commitment to Psychiatry.- Supplements.