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Wilhelm Stekel
1868–1940
An early and outspoken figure in psychoanalysis, this Austrian physician moved from Sigmund Freud’s inner circle to a fiercely independent career of his own. His books helped bring psychoanalytic ideas on dreams, sexuality, and everyday emotional life to a wide readership.
3 Audiobooks
Bi-sexual love; the homosexual neurosis
by Wilhelm Stekel
The Depths of the Soul: Psycho-Analytical Studies
by Wilhelm Stekel
The Homosexual Neurosis
by Wilhelm Stekel
About the author
Born on March 18, 1868, in Bojan, Bukovina, Wilhelm Stekel became an Austrian physician, psychologist, and one of the early pioneers of psychoanalysis. He was among Sigmund Freud’s first followers and played a notable part in the movement’s formative years before eventually breaking with Freud and developing his own path.
Stekel wrote extensively for both professional and general audiences, with a special interest in dreams, neuroses, and sexuality. He is often remembered for helping popularize psychoanalytic ideas beyond specialist circles, and for a style that was more direct and accessible than that of many of his contemporaries.
His later life was marked by exile from Austria, and he died in London on June 25, 1940. Though his reputation has long stood in Freud’s shadow, Stekel remains an important and sometimes controversial voice in the early history of modern psychology.