Ludwig Jekels

Ludwig Jekels, or Jekeles (August 15, 1867, in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary, now Lviv, Ukraine; died April 13, 1954, in New York) was an Austrian physician and early psychoanalyst.Originally from Austria-Hungary, Jekels obtained his medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1892. At the university clinic, he specialized in psychiatry and neurology over the next five years . In 1897, he founded a private sanatorium for the treatment of nervous diseases in Bistrai (now Bystra), Silesia.Learning about the work of Sigmund Freud, he became interested in then-nascent psychoanalysis, and participated in the first Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Salzburg in 1908, then became a member of Wednesday Psychological Society from 1910. He moved to Vienna to become more involved in the psychoanalytic movement, alongside Freud. Freud cited Jekels's work on auto-erotic drives in his 1915 Papers on Metapsychology. Jekels also attempted...