24 Facts About Sergei Pankejeff

Sergei Konstantinovitch Pankejeff was a Russian aristocrat from Odesa in the Russian Empire.

Pankejeff is best known for being a patient of Sigmund Freud, who gave him the pseudonym of the Wolf Man to protect his identity, after a dream Pankejeff had of a tree full of white wolves.

Sergei Pankejeff was born on the 24 December 1886 at his family's estate near Kakhovka on the river Dnieper.

The Sergei Pankejeff family was a wealthy family in St Petersburg.

Sergei Pankejeff's father was Konstantin Matviyovich Pankeyev and his mother was Anna Semenivna, nee Shapovalova.

Sergei Pankejeff's parents were married young and had a happy marriage, but his mother became sickly and was therefore somewhat absent from the lives of her two children.

Sergei Pankejeff's father Konstantin, while being a cultured man and a keen hunter, was an alcoholic who suffered from depressive episodes.

Sergei Pankejeff had been treated by Moshe Wulff.

Sergei Pankejeff attended a grammar school in Russia, but after the 1905 Russian Revolution he spent considerable time abroad studying.

Freud's treatment of Sergei Pankejeff centered on a dream the latter had as a very young child which he described to Freud:.

Later in the paper, Freud posited the possibility that Sergei Pankejeff instead had witnessed copulation between animals, which was displaced to his parents.

Sergei Pankejeff's dream played a major role in Freud's theory of psychosexual development, and along with Irma's injection, it was one of the most important dreams for the developments of Freud's theories.

Additionally, Sergei Pankejeff became one of the main cases used by Freud to prove the validity of psychoanalysis.

Sergei Pankejeff later published his own memoir under Freud's given pseudonym and remained in contact with Freudian disciples until his own death, making him one of the longest-running famous patients in the history of psychoanalysis.

Sergei Pankejeff was observed in a street staring at his reflection in a mirror, convinced that after having consulted and been treated by a dermatologist to correct a minor injury on his nose, his dermatologist had left him with what he perceived to be a hole in his nose.

The reason for this was that Sergei Pankejeff being one of Freud's most famous "cured" patients and the fact revealing that he was still suffering from mental illness would hurt the reputation of Freud and psychoanalysis.

Sergei Pankejeff had been depressed since the death of her daughter.

Sergei Pankejeff would receive intermittent treatment for these episodes from various psychoanalysts, most frequently by the head of The Vienna Psychoanalytical Society Alfred von Winterstein and then by his successor, Wilhelm Solms-Rodelheim.

In July 1977, Sergei Pankejeff suffered a heart attack and then contracted pneumonia.

Sergei Pankejeff was admitted to the Steinhof psychiatric hospital in Vienna.

Sergei Pankejeff broke his silence and agreed to talk to Karin Obholzer.

Sergei Pankejeff died on the 12th of May 1979 at the age of 92.

Mr Sergei Pankejeff saw Freud's interpretation of his dream as 'terribly far-fetched.

Mr Sergei Pankejeff disputed Freud's claim that he had been cured, and said he resented being 'propaganda' and 'a showpiece for psychoanalysis.