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Günter’s optimistic concept of a “life drive” is challenged when he takes a job at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

His father, Thomas, was a writer and English teacher, and his mother, Dr. Lucy Bergson LaFarge, is editor of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2023

When he moved back to the United States to take a faculty job at Yale, he also became a student at the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute and Society, in New Haven.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2022

He is a retired assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a training and supervising analyst emeritus at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2020

Psychoanalytic investigation of the neuroses has for the first time made it possible to discover more remote phases of the libido-development.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund