Salomea Kempner Explained

Salomea Kempner (1880–1940?) was a Polish psychoanalyst, assistant physician at the Cantonal Insane Asylum in Rheinau, Switzerland.^[1]

Life

Salomea Kempner was from Plock, Poland. In 1921 she moved to Vienna,^[1] and in June 1922 was elected a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.^[2] In 1923 she moved to Berlin, where she worked at the Berlin Polyclinic,^[1] and became a member of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society in January 1925. In 1935 she and Philipp Sarasin, with whom she had a longstanding relationship, visited Freud together.^[3] She became a training analyst in 1936.^[1] She supervised the training of Adelheid Koch.^[4] She continued conducting psychoanalytic control sessions in her apartment until 1937, but disappeared without trace in the Warsaw Ghetto.^[5]

Works

• Versuche zum mikroskopischen Nachweis der Narkose der Nerven[Attempts at microscopic detection of nerve anesthesia]. Zürich, 1909.
• 'Beitrag zur Oralerotik'. Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, Vol. 11, p. 69-77, 1925
• 'Some remarks on oral erotism'. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, Vol. 6, pp. 419–429, 1925
• (trans. with W. Zaniewicki) Wstęp do psychoanalizy by Sigmund Freud. Translation from the German Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse. Warsaw: J. Przeworski, 1935.

Notes and References

1. Book: Sigmund Freud. Sándor Ferenczi. Ernst Falzeder. Eva Brabant. The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi: 1920-1933. 1993. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-00297-5. 30.
2. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 3, p.513.
3. Book: Paul Roazen. The Historiography of Psychoanalysis. 2018. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-351-32682-7. 236.
4. Book: C. Lucia M. Valladares de Oliveira. Joy Damousi. Mariano Ben Plotkin. Psychoanalysis and Politics: Histories of Psychoanalysis Under Conditions of Restricted Political Freedom. https://books.google.com/books?id=-odgubKIBP0C&pg=PA121. 2012. Oxford University Press, USA. 978-0-19-974466-4. 121. Psychoanalysis in Brazil during Vargas' Time.
5. Book: Veronika Fuechtner. Berlin Psychoanalytic: Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and Beyond. 2011. University of California Press. 978-0-520-25837-2. 122.