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The Psycho-Analytic Study Of The Family by J.C. Flugel 1948 Hardcover
The Psycho-Analytic Study Of The Family by J.C. Flugel 1948 Hardcover
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Flügel, John Carl (1884–1955), psychologist and psychoanalyst, was born in Brompton House, Livingston Drive South, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, on 13 June 1884, the only child of Karl Rudolf Dietrich Flügel, a wealthy German merchant, and his wife, Mary, née Eccles. Flügel was privately educated, a congenital foot defect preventing school attendance. In 1902 he went to Balliol College, Oxford, graduating BA in Greats (1906). Here he displayed wide-ranging, often heretical, interests (for example, psychical research), came under William McDougall's influence, and began a lifelong friendship with fellow student Cyril Burt. A spell at Würzburg, studying psychology under Oswald Külpe, followed. After returning to Oxford in 1908 he won a John Locke scholarship in mental philosophy. In 1909 he became C. Spearman's first assistant at University College, London, as demonstrator in the psychology laboratory. Flügel remained at University College until his death, being appointed senior lecturer (1920), assistant professor (1929) and special lecturer following his official retirement (1944).
Flügel is best remembered as virtually the only British psychologist of his day successfully to straddle academic psychology and psychoanalysis, between which he always strove to mediate. His first experimental work (with McDougall, on perception), appeared in 1909; several further papers (often cited by Spearman) on perception and hearing appeared into the 1920s. The experimental work culminated in Practice, Fatigue and Oscillation (1928). This established his orthodox scientific credentials but, while long continuing to be involved in teaching experimental psychology, his creativity lay elsewhere. After marrying Sophie Mabel Ingeborg, daughter of Richard Theodore Klingberg, merchant, on 20 December 1913, Flügel sought psychoanalytic help for some personal problems. By this time he was already on his way to becoming a convert and practitioner; in October 1913 he co-founded the London Psycho-Analytical Society with Ernest Jones, and later, in 1919, the British Psycho-Analytical Society. He became secretary of the International Psycho-Analytic Association (1919–24) and assistant editor of the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. His Psycho-Analytic Study of the Family (1921) was the first book by a British author in the International Psycho-Analytic Library series. While theoretically orthodox, Flügel's psychoanalytic interests often displayed originality, with papers on the Esperanto movement, Henry VIII, the ‘Tannäusser Motif’, and a book entitled The Psychology of Clothes (1940). His wife shared his interests, and her ‘Some psychological aspects of a fox-hunting rite’ appeared in Men and their Motives (1934). The early influences of McDougall and Herbert Spencer, plus his cosmopolitan background, added a social and internationalist dimension to Flügel's concerns, most evident in the highly regarded Man, Morals and Society: a Psychoanalytical Study (1945) and the neo-Malthusian Population, Psychology and Peace (1947). A Hundred Years of Psychology (1933; rev. D. J. West 1957) was also for many years the only history of psychology written by a Briton. From 1920 until his death Flügel taught psychoanalysis on the University College undergraduate course, the academic co-existence of this alongside Spearman's psychometric factor approach being facilitated by a territorially convenient theoretical demarcation between emotional (‘orectic’) and cognitive processes. This enabled him to collaborate harmoniously with Spearman and, from 1931, Burt (Spearman's successor), on the jointly taught introductory course.
Flügel died as a result of a coronary thrombosis at his home, 20 Merton Rise, Hampstead, London, on 6 August 1955.
Flügel is best remembered as virtually the only British psychologist of his day successfully to straddle academic psychology and psychoanalysis, between which he always strove to mediate. His first experimental work (with McDougall, on perception), appeared in 1909; several further papers (often cited by Spearman) on perception and hearing appeared into the 1920s. The experimental work culminated in Practice, Fatigue and Oscillation (1928). This established his orthodox scientific credentials but, while long continuing to be involved in teaching experimental psychology, his creativity lay elsewhere. After marrying Sophie Mabel Ingeborg, daughter of Richard Theodore Klingberg, merchant, on 20 December 1913, Flügel sought psychoanalytic help for some personal problems. By this time he was already on his way to becoming a convert and practitioner; in October 1913 he co-founded the London Psycho-Analytical Society with Ernest Jones, and later, in 1919, the British Psycho-Analytical Society. He became secretary of the International Psycho-Analytic Association (1919–24) and assistant editor of the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. His Psycho-Analytic Study of the Family (1921) was the first book by a British author in the International Psycho-Analytic Library series. While theoretically orthodox, Flügel's psychoanalytic interests often displayed originality, with papers on the Esperanto movement, Henry VIII, the ‘Tannäusser Motif’, and a book entitled The Psychology of Clothes (1940). His wife shared his interests, and her ‘Some psychological aspects of a fox-hunting rite’ appeared in Men and their Motives (1934). The early influences of McDougall and Herbert Spencer, plus his cosmopolitan background, added a social and internationalist dimension to Flügel's concerns, most evident in the highly regarded Man, Morals and Society: a Psychoanalytical Study (1945) and the neo-Malthusian Population, Psychology and Peace (1947). A Hundred Years of Psychology (1933; rev. D. J. West 1957) was also for many years the only history of psychology written by a Briton. From 1920 until his death Flügel taught psychoanalysis on the University College undergraduate course, the academic co-existence of this alongside Spearman's psychometric factor approach being facilitated by a territorially convenient theoretical demarcation between emotional (‘orectic’) and cognitive processes. This enabled him to collaborate harmoniously with Spearman and, from 1931, Burt (Spearman's successor), on the jointly taught introductory course.
Flügel died as a result of a coronary thrombosis at his home, 20 Merton Rise, Hampstead, London, on 6 August 1955.
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