ABRAHAM, KARL
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ABRAHAM, KARL (1877–1925), Freudian theorist; established the first institute
for training psychoanalysts. Born to a prosperous and cultured Jewish
home in Bremen, he earned a medical degree at Freiburg and then took a post
in a hospital near Burgholzli, Switzerland, to study with Carl Jung. The latter
introduced him to Sigmund Freud in 1907. Abraham soon moved to Berlin*
and secured a position at the city's mental hospital. After several years he began
a private psychiatric practice.
Abraham was among Freud's closest collaborators. In 1910 he formed the
Berlin Psychoanalytical Society, but he is best remembered for founding, with
Max Eitingon, the clinic that in 1920 became the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute.
With Abraham as principal theoretician, it was the first center devoted to training
analysts. Although plans were made to make him ausserordentlicher Professor
at Berlin, hostility toward psychoanalysis precluded the appointment. Abraham
worked on war neuroses, drug addiction, and anal eroticism; he also contributed
the idea that biology dictates a sequence in developing the aims of the libido.
Although he was praised for his insight into ‘‘object relations,'' he was better
known for clinical work than for theory. Chronic bronchitis, contracted during
World War I, caused his early death.
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