1. Edmund Bergler has been described as the most important psychoanalytic theorist of homosexuality in the 1950s.
11 Facts About Edmund Bergler
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Edmund Bergler was born in Kolomyia, in today's Ukraine, in 1899 into a Jewish family.
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Edmund Bergler wrote 25 psychology books along with 273 articles that were published in leading professional journals.
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Edmund Bergler had unfinished manuscripts of dozens of more titles in the possession of the Edmund and Marianne Bergler Psychiatric Foundation.
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Edmund Bergler has been referred to as "one of the few original minds among the followers of Freud".
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Delos Smith, science editor of United Press International, said Edmund Bergler was "among the most prolific Freudian theoreticians after Freud himself".
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Edmund Bergler was the most important psychoanalytic theorist of homosexuality in the 1950s.
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Edmund Bergler frequently distanced himself from the central, psychoanalytical tradition, while at the same time claiming a position of importance within it.
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Edmund Bergler thought of himself as a revolutionary who would transform the movement.
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Edmund Bergler is noted for his insistence on the universality of unconscious masochism.
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Edmund Bergler, who did more work on the subject than any other psychoanalyst, argued that all gamblers gamble because of "psychic masochism".