WILHELM STEKEL

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 64, 12 September 1940, Page 5

WILHELM STEKEL

FAMOUS PSYCHOANALYST DEAD

Dr. Wilhelm Stekel, of Vienna, once Freud's principal assistant and famed throughout the world as a psychoanalyst second only to Freud, has been found dead in his room at a private hotel in Kensington, said the "Daily Mail" on June 28. Letters found near him will be produced at the inquest at Paddington. Among them was a sheet of typescript with the words: "I am passing out like a warrior. Guns and cannons are only temporary; the greatness for which England stands will right all wrongs." Dr. Stekel, who was 74, amplified Freud's researches in many directions. In some of his writings he attacked | Fascism. The Fascist State, he said, grew out of a, psychic epidemic of adoration which merged massed inferiorities. When Hitler seized Austria, Dr. Stekel and his wife had to flee" the country, not only* on account of his writings, but also because of his Jewish extraction. They went to Switzerland, but a few weeks later, in May, 1938, they came to London to begin a new life at 72. ' At his hotel Dr. Stekel received great numbers of distinguished doctors and others who liked to consult | him. He was normally cheerful, and j said he had a formula for happiness. It was: "Overcome the past, live the I present; prepare the future." London, he told his friends, enchanted I him, because of the beauty of its parks 'and gardens.