Jones wrote of Wilhelm Stekel that he was "a naturally gifted psychologist with an unusual flair for detecting repressed material".
16 Facts About Wilhelm Stekel
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Freud and Wilhelm Stekel later had a falling-out, with Freud announcing in November 1912 that "Wilhelm Stekel is going his own way".
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Wilhelm Stekel was born to Jewish parents in 1868 in Boiany, Bukovina, then an eastern province of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but now divided between Ukraine in the north and Romania in the south.
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Wilhelm Stekel then enlisted as a "one-year-volunteer" with the 9th Company, Prince Eugen's Imperial Infantry Regiment No 41 in Czernowitz [today's Chernivtsi, Ukraine].
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Wilhelm Stekel managed by intentionally failing an examination and using a loophole in the regulations, to gain his release in 1894.
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Thereafter Wilhelm Stekel opened a successful doctor's practice, while as a sideline, following the example of his elder brother, the journalist Moritz Wilhelm Stekel, wrote articles and pamphlets covering issues around health and disease.
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In 1895 Wilhelm Stekel wrote an article, "Coitus in Childhood" which Freud cited in an article on "The Aetiology of Hysteria" in 1896.
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Wilhelm Stekel wrote a book called Auto-erotism: A Psychiatric Study of Onanism and Neurosis, first published in English in 1950.
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Wilhelm Stekel is credited with coining the term paraphilia to replace perversion.
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Wilhelm Stekel wrote one of a set of three early "Psychoanalytic studies of psychical impotence" referred to approvingly by Freud: "Freud had written a preface to Wilhelm Stekel's book".
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Less flatteringly, Fenichel associated it with "a comparatively large school of pseudo analysis which held that the patient should be 'bombarded' with 'deep interpretations,'" a backhanded tribute to the extent of Wilhelm Stekel's early following in the wake of his break with Freud.
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On sado-masochism, "Wilhelm Stekel has described the essence of the sadomasochistic act to be humiliation".
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Wilhelm Stekel maintained that "in every child there slumbered a creative artist".
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Wilhelm Stekel committed suicide in Kensington by taking an overdose of Aspirin "to end the pain of his prostate and the diabetic gangrene".
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Wilhelm Stekel's remains were cremated at Golders Green Crematorium on 29 June 1940.
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Wilhelm Stekel's autobiography was published posthumously, edited by his former personal assistant Emil Gutheil and his wife Hilda Binder Wilhelm Stekel.