“Über dies eigene Ich wieder hinaus”: Stefan Zweig and Adlerian Psychology

• Published in: The German quarterly Vol. 97; no. 1; pp. 24 - 39
• Main Author: Resch, Stephan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cherry Hill American Association of Teachers of German, Inc 01.01.2024
• Subjects: Adler, Alfred (1870-1937); Austrian literature; Biographies; Correspondence; Diaries; Essays; Fiction; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939); German literature; Individual psychology; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonal Relationship; Males; Novellas; Psychiatry; Psychoanalysis; Psychologists; Psychology; Resistance (Psychology); Social Environment; Social Responsibility; Zweig, Stefan (1881-1942)

This article examines the biographical and literary connections between Austrian writer Stefan Zweig and psychologist Alfred Adler. While Zweig's reception of Freudian psychoanalysis has been widely documented by scholarship, the impact of Adler's Individual Psychology on Zweig's work...