Raymond de Saussure
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Life
Raymond de Saussure was born in Geneva, the son of the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. He underwent analysis with Sigmund Freud. He was a founding member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society before spending time at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute undergoing analysis with Franz Alexander. During and after the Second World War he lived in New York City, where he predicted Adolf Hitler's suicide in 1942, due to Hitler's paranoid hysterical state; in 1952, Saussure returned to Switzerland from the United States. He founded the Geneva Museum of the History of Science with Marc Cramer and others in 1955. He founded the European Psychoanalytic Federation with Wilhelm Solms-Rödelheim in 1966, and Saussure served as its president until his death from prostate cancer.
He died in Geneva in 1971 at the age of seventy-seven years.
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Secondary Literature of Note
- Rudolph Loewenstein: Obituary: Raymond de Saussure (1894–1971). In: International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Bd. 54 (1973), S. 111 f.
- Alexander Moser: Switzerland. In: Peter Kutter (Hrsg.): Psychoanalysis International. A Guide to Psychoanalysis throughout the World. Bd. 1: Europe. Frommann-Holzboog 1992, ISBN 3-7728-1509-X, S. 278–313, hier S. 298 f.
- Marcel Naville, Roger Mayer: Histoire de la Société médicale de Genève, 1823–1993. Genf 1994, 34 f.
- Henri Vermorel (d. 2020). Raymond de Saussure (1894–1971): Un des fondateurs de la SPP. In: Revue française de psychanalyse. Bd. 61 (1997), H. 2, S. 673–683.