Barbara Low

Barbara Low (1877-1955) was one of the first British psychoanalysts, and an early pioneer of analytic theory in England.

Training and contributions

After graduating from University College, London, and working as a teacher, Low went to Berlin for analysis with Hanns Sachs, and became a founder member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. She remained active in the society, serving as librarian, and encouraging wider public involvement for the society during WWII.[1] Having led the welcoming committee for Austrian analysts in 1938,[2] Low supported Anna Freud and Edward Glover in the wartime Controversial discussions.[3]

Low introduced the concept of the Nirvana principle for the organism's tendency to keep stimuli to a minimum level[4] - her use of the term in her article of 1920 being taken up immediately by Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.[5]

Publications

See also

References

  1. ↑ B. Maddox, Freud's Wizard (2006) p. 246
  2. ↑ B. Maddox, Freud's Wizard (2006) p. 238
  3. ↑ P. King/R. Steiner eds., The Freud/Klein Controversy 1941-45 (1990)
  4. ↑ J. Laplanche/J.-B. Pontalis, The Language of Psychoanalysis (1988) p. 27
  5. ↑ S. Freud, On Metapsychology (PFL 11) p. 329

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