Bernfeld, Siegfried#
b. Lvív, Ukraine (then Lemberg), May 7, 1892, d. San Francisco (USA), April 2, 1953, pedagogic expert, psychoanalyst; attempted to find evidence in the natural and social sciences which would support S. Freud's theories in order to develop a marxist-psychoanalytical theory of education; established the central organization of Jewish youth groups in Austria and the Jewish Pedagogical Institute in Vienna; founded the Baumgarten Children´s Home in Vienna; 1937 emigrated to San Francisco.
Edition: Saemtl. Werke, 1992ff.
Literature#
K. Fallend (ed.), S. B. oder Die Grenzen der Psychoanalyse, 1992.