Figure 1. Oskar Kokoschka: Baron Viktor von Dirsztay (1911) [Sprengel-Museum Hannover] # Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2009 FOURTEEN HUNDRED HOURS OF ANALYSIS WITH FREUD: VIKTOR VON DIRSZTAY: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH1 Ulrike May, Berlin, Germany The Hungarian writer and Freud analysand, Baron Viktor von Dirsztay (1884?â1935) does not play a prominent part in the history of psychoanalysis. Nevertheless his ï¬gure exerts a curious fascination that may stem from the fact that Dirsztay represents a link between two worlds which were hitherto assumed to be alien to each other: psychoanalysis and early Expressionism in Vienna and Berlin. As will be shown, during his long analysis with Freud, Dirsztay was in contact with important artists of Expressionism. His portrait was done by Oskar Kokoschka in 1911 (see Figure 1) and he himself wrote two books which were illustrated by Kokoschka (Dirsztay, 1917, 1923). According to the obituaries in the Viennese newspapers, Dirsztay led ´ the bohemian, romantic life of the cafe literati, that of an eccentric aesthete and art lover from a wealthy background. On closer acquaintance, however, he appears as tormented and disturbed, a person whose life was full of difï¬culties. On 6 November 1935 he and his wife
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Fourteen Hundred Hours of Analysis with Freud: Viktor von Dirsztay. A Biographical Sketch
May, Ulrike
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