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Ludwig Binswanger
(13 Apr 1881 - 5 Feb 1966)
Swiss psychiatrist who was a leading proponent of Daseinsanalysis (a psychotherapeutic technique based on existentialism) which was popular in Europe.
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Science Quotes by Ludwig Binswanger (1 quote)
Freud expressed the opinion—not quite in earnest, though, it seeemed to me—that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed sexuality, nothing more. In response I put the question, 'What then is science, particularly psychoanalytic psychology?' Whereupon he, visibly a bit surprised, answered evasively: 'At least psychology has a social purpose.'
— Ludwig Binswanger
Recollection by Binswanger of conversation during his third visit to Vienna to see Freud (17-18 May 1913), in Gerhard Fichtner (ed.) and Arnold J. Pomerans (trans.), The Sigmund Freud-Ludwig Binswanger Correspondence 1908-1938 (2003), 237.
See also:
- 13 Apr - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Binswanger's birth.
- Being in the World, by Ludwig Binswanger. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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