Hans loewald the waning moon
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Hans Loewald
Hans Loewald (–) was a German-American psychoanalyst and theorist. While apparently a traditional Freudian, Loewald in his thinking was both elegant and quietly revisionist[1] - a radical conservative .
Hans loewald the waning moon
Background and education
Loewald was born in Colmar, then Germany. His father, who died shortly after his birth, was a Jewish physician with an interest in dermatology and psychiatry; his mother was a gifted musician, who played the piano.
Loewald did medical training in Germany – where he also studied philosophy with Martin Heidegger, who would influence him with his theory of language[2] – before taking a medical degree from Rome University in [3] He practiced psychiatry in Italy until , before moving with his family to the United States.[4] There he became fascinated by Freud's theory, in which he rooted all the features of his own thinking.
He did not want to create a new psychoanalytic terminology, but, although he u