Hans loewald biography

Hans Loewald (–) was a German-American psychoanalyst and theorist. While apparently a traditional Freudian, Loewald in his thinking was both elegant and quietly revisionist^[1] - a radical conservative .

Background and education

Loewald was born in Colmar, then Germany. His father, who died shortly after his birth, was a Jewish physician with an interest in dermatology and psychiatry; his mother was a gifted musician, who played the piano.

Loewald did medical training in Germany – where he also studied philosophy with Martin Heidegger, who would influence him with his theory of language^[2] – before taking a medical degree from Rome University in ^[3] He practiced psychiatry in Italy until , before moving with his family to the United States.^[4] There he became fascinated by Freud's theory, in which he rooted all the features of his own thinking.

He did not want to create a new psychoanalytic terminology, but, although he u