Wilhelm Stekel

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Wilhelm Stekel (March 18, 1868 – June 25, 1940) was a Austrian physician and psychologist, who became one of Sigmund Freud's earliest followers, a self-described apostle^[1]. He later had a falling-out with Freud.^[2]

Born in Bujon, Bukowina, he wrote a book called Auto-erotism: A Psychiatric Study of Onanism and Neurosis, first published in 1950.

He is quoted in J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.

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1. ^ From about 1902. See Peter Gay, Freud, p.173.
2. ^ In 1912. Gay, p.232.