Cristian Réka Mónika, Kérchy Anna (eds)

Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education II

Lillián Rotter (1896–1981)

Lillián Rotter was an expert in dealing mostly with psychoanalytical child psychology and pedagogy. After graduating from the medical university, she started her training analysis with Imre Hermann. In 1923, she married her university classmate, Tivadar Kertész (who was the first husband of Aranka Böhm, the second wife of the renowned Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy). She published her most original ideas on women’s psychosexual development. Contrary to the classic Freudian arguments about women’s penis envy and passivity, Rotter considered women’s subjectivity and sexuality to be much more autonomous, although experienced in a mediated way, pertaining to men’s desires. Rotter held popular pedagogical seminars for mothers, psychoanalysts, pedagogues and kindergarten teachers in Hungarian Psychoanalytic Polyclinic. Her only book summarizes these ideas, expressing contemporary thought on childrearing and “psychic hygiene,” addressed to a wider circle of readers. After the war, she worked as a laboratory doctor, then at the child protection department of the city council, but also continued her private psychoanalytic practice.

Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education II

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Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2023

ISBN: 978 963 454 927 7

Művelődéstörténet

In this sequel to the first volume of Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education published in 2022, editors Réka M. Cristian and Anna Kérchy present the portraits of twenty-two prominent Hungarian women scholars, scientists and educators who made pioneering contributions to Hungary’s scientific achievement over the centuries. Some of the women introduced in the sixteen chapters come from traditional disciplines such as pharmacy, medicine, historiography, engineering, mathematics, archeology, psychology, and philosophy, while others furthered on fields not necessarily viewed, especially at the time, as science or scholarship proper, but which are nonetheless deeply intellectual, such as physical, special needs, reform, or music education, feminism, and historic preservation. The book offers a bird’s eye view summary of the accomplishments reached and challenges faced by these exceptional Hungarian female academics and intellectuals.

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