Person
Hanns Sachs
Viennese lawyer turned psychoanalyst, one of Freud's early followers and a member of his secret Committee, who founded the journal Imago with Otto Rank in 1912. He was among the first training analysts at the Berlin institute in the 1920s, and moved to Boston in 1932.
Influence
Lineage
- 1920 analysed Karen Horney
Horney's second analysis, with Sachs, came around 1920, when he had just begun training analyses at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute.
- 1921 analysed Michael Balint
Balint's first analysis, in Berlin, alongside Alice Balint. Dissatisfied with it, the couple went back to Budapest to finish their analyses with Ferenczi.
- 1929 analysed Erich Fromm
Fromm's training analysis was with Hanns Sachs at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, beginning about February 1929.
Gallery
Freud and colleagues at the 6th International Psychoanalytic Congress, The Hague, 1920; Hanns Sachs stands at the far left of the back row. Seated, left to right: Jan van Emden, Ernest Jones, Sigmund Freud, Sándor Ferenczi, John Carl Flügel; standing: Hanns Sachs, Otto Rank, Karl Abraham, Oskar Rie, Adolph Stern, Johan van Ophuijsen. Photographer unknown 
Freud's Committee, photographed by Marie Boehm of the Becker & Maass studio, Berlin, 1922: seated, Sigmund Freud, Sándor Ferenczi and Hanns Sachs; standing, Otto Rank, Karl Abraham, Max Eitingon and Ernest Jones
References
- A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney1987Evidence for a relation