Esther Menaker – författare

Originally published in 1989 as Appointment in Vienna, Esther Menaker's Misplaced Loyalties is a fascinating memoir covering five years of student life in Vienna during the early years of the psychoanalytic movement started by Sigmund Freud. It begins in 1930, when, full of high expectations, the author and her husband left their native America and eagerly embarked on an exhilarating journey that would take them to Austria, where they were to become candidates at the Psychoanalytic Institute.

Originally published in 1989 as Appointment in Vienna, Esther Menaker's Misplaced Loyalties is a fascinating memoir covering five years of student life in Vienna during the early years of the psychoanalytic movement started by Sigmund Freud. It begins in 1930, when, full of high expectations, the author and her husband left their native America and eagerly embarked on an exhilarating journey that would take them to Austria, where they were to become candidates at the Psychoanalytic Institute.

This text presents the work of Ester Menaker. Never a follower of a particular psychoanalytic perspective of dogma, she always questioned the prevailing orthodoxy. The result is a self psychological perspective that focuses on striving for creativity and relatedness.

This text describes Otto Rank's place in the history of psychoanalysis. It shows how Rank was a forerunner both of object relations theory and self psychology, and offers evidence that Rank was far ahead of his time.