Person
Karl Abraham
Founder of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society; analyst of Melanie Klein and Karen Horney.
Read more- Born
- 1877
- Died
- 1925
- Influenced
analysed
- Karen Horney 1910 Horney began analysis with Abraham in Berlin in 1910, while still a medical student and young wife.
- Melanie Klein 1924
disputed with
- Otto Rank 1924 Karl Abraham led the opposition within Freud's inner circle to Rank's Das Trauma der Geburt and to the book Rank wrote with Ferenczi in 1924.
- Ronald Fairbairn In the 1941 paper Fairbairn criticised Abraham's scheme of libidinal phases and replaced it with stages defined by the quality of dependence on objects.