IN CONVERSATION WITH

In our interview series "in conversation with“, we will briefly present the authors of the leading articles. We want to give our users the opportunity to read the leading article from a different point of view.


This week we are very glad to welcome Sophia Benedict from Vienna, Austria:

Born 1945 in the USSR
Occupation: Journalist for Science, writer, translator, specialist author
Citizenship: Austria (married in 1984 to an Austrian)
Education: University of Kazan, Russia: studies in journalism, German, literature and history; Diploma for journalism
Further Education: Education and Training in Vienna for German, Psychoanalysis, Pedagogy in Adult Education, Communication, Elocution
Languages: a) Russian (mother tongue); B) German (very good) c) Ukrainian (good) d) English (basic knowledge)
Cultural and educational trips: England, Turkey, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Malta, South Africa, Tunisia, Israel
Work: 08.07.1966 - 15.09.1984 Journalism (newspapers, magazines, radio TV) in the USSR (Kazan, Tbilisi, Moscow)
02.01.1985 - now freelance journalist, translator, interpreter in Vienna
Membership in:
Press Club "Concordia", Austrian PEN-Club, Austrian Writers´ Association (ÖSV), Austrian Association of Translators of Literary and Scientific Works, Wiener Sigmund Freud Society
Interests: Photography (part-time), Painting, Sculpture
Over 20 published books.

DWP: What led you to deal with psychoanalysis, respectively with Freud and his achievements?

Sophia Benedict: I come from the USSR, where psychoanalysis has been undesirable since 1925 until the mid-1980s. Everyone knows how sweet the forbidden fruit is. The few works that I have managed to read have aroused my interest and it has grown since then. Later, when I was already living in Vienna, I read almost all of Freud’s works; I attended the lectures on psychoanalysis and even took part in lectures from the university as a free listener. Then I began to translate articles and books on psychoanalysis. I have also written some science journalistic books that have been successfully published in Russia.
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Die Urväter und die Religion

Book review: Das Religionsverständnis von Sigmund Freud und Carl Gustav Jung

Wie kann man sich erwehren bei einem solchen Thema als Zitat aus dem Buch die Fehlleistung zu wählen? "Auch auf Pythagoras ..., dem zufolge die komische Ordnung dem Zahlenspiel obliegt, bezieht sich Jung in seinen symbolträchtigen Ausführungen, insbesondere denjenigen über die Zahl Vier." (Seite 92).

Man gewinnt sogleich den Eindruck, dass die beiden Herren unsere werte Autorin schon zu lange verfolgt haben, wieso so wohl wählte man sonst zwei derart unsympathische Photos der beiden? Es folgt dann eine sehr akribische Arbeit, die fast immer lehrreich bleibt. Ihre dissertantischen Charakter schafft sie nicht gänzlich abzuschütteln, wo hingegen das Ende an Tempo gewinnt und unterhaltsamer wird. Eine geringfügige Kürzung hätte jedoch sicherlich nicht geschadet.
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Riddle

We. 32/2017

Can you solve the puzzle?