Person
J. C. Flügel
British experimental psychologist and psychoanalyst, born in Liverpool to a German father and an English mother. He wrote The Psycho-Analytic Study of the Family (1921) and The Psychology of Clothes (1930), where he traced how men's dress gave up display and colour at the end of the eighteenth century, and he was one of Susan Isaacs's analysts.
Influence
Lineage
- analysed Susan Isaacs
The Melanie Klein Trust dates a brief treatment with Flügel to 1920, before her analysis with Rank; Psychoanalytikerinnen has her continue with Flügel after Rank.
Gallery
Sigmund Freud with colleagues at the Sixth International Psychoanalytical Congress, The Hague, 1920; J. C. Flügel is seated at the far right. Photographer unknown (Library of Congress)
