Robert Kramer

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Apr 24, 2022, 5:30 PM

Who Cares about Holocaust Survivors?

President Joe Biden has declared April 24 through May 1, 2022 a week of Holocaust observance. He calls upon “the people of the United States to observe this week and pause to remember victims and survivors of the Holocaust.” But...

Apr 3, 2022, 1:17 AM

Viktor O. visits his psychoanalyst

These are the verbatim free associations of patient Viktor O. during his last session of treatment. As a psychoanalyst, I am, of course, forbidden by my profession’s code of ethics to reveal the full name of my patient, who has...

Feb 28, 2022, 11:48 PM

Inside Putin’s Mind: The Dream of Immortality

In recent years, social psychologists studying “terror management theory” have conducted over 1,500 randomized controlled experiments to test one of Otto Rank's most compelling hypotheses: “The death fear of the ego is lessened by the killing, the sacrifice, of...

Feb 24, 2022, 7:33 AM

Vladimir P. visits his psychoanalyst

These are the verbatim free associations of Patient Vladimir P. The original case history notes, identifying the full name of the patient, are being submitted to the Freud Collection at the Library of Congress, and will become available for researchers...

Feb 21, 2022, 6:38 AM

Kafka and the Jewish Agency

Two years! That's how long I've been submitting unequivocal proof I'm eligible for aliyah. Zero. That's how many responses I've received.

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About Me

Robert Kramer, PhD, is an existential psychoanalyst in Budapest. He is editor of Otto Rank's "A Psychology of Difference: The American Lectures" (Princeton University Press, 1996); co-editor, with E. James Lieberman, of "The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012); and author of "The Birth of Relationship Therapy: Carl Rogers Meets Otto Rank" (Psychosozial Press, 2022).