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Paul Parin

パウル・パリン

Pauru Parin

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1916-09-20 (Polzela (German: Heilenstein), near Celje, Slovenia)
Died
2009-05-18 (Zürich) age 92
Nationality
Swiss
Languages
German, Swiss Standard German
Religion
Judaism
Residence History
Slovenia (birth) → Yugoslavia (wartime) → Switzerland, Zürich

Career

Occupations
psychoanalyst, author, ethnologist
Active Years
1945-2009
Affiliations
Zurich School of Ethnopsychoanalysis
Influenced By
Georges Devereux
Influenced
Hans Bosse

Education

University of Zagreb
Faculty of Medicine
Country: Croatia
University of Graz
Faculty of Medicine
Country: Austria
University of Zürich
Faculty of Medicine
Country: Switzerland
Met wife Goldy Matthèy-Guenet

Awards

Erich Fried Prize
1992
Work: literary achievements
Organization: Erich Fried Prize Foundation
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Es ist Krieg und wir gehen hin. Bei den jugoslawischen Partisanen

1991 Memoir

Memoir of his experiences as a doctor with Yugoslav partisans at the end of WWII.

WarPartisan resistanceMedicine

Fürchte deinen Nächsten wie dich selbst: Psychoanalyse und Gesellschaft am Modell der Agni in Westafrika

1978 Ethnopsychoanalysis

Co-authored with Fritz Morgenthaler and Goldy Parin-Matthèy. Psychoanalytic study of the Agni people in West Africa.

PsychoanalysisEthnologyNon-Western cultures

Legacy

Co-founder of the Zurich School of Ethnopsychoanalysis, known for pioneering psychoanalytic research in West Africa among Agni and Dogon peoples.

Trivia

  • Born into an assimilated Jewish family.
  • Served as partisan doctor with wife Goldy.