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From the Archive, Otto Fenichel to Michael Balint: Struggles, Exile, Searching for a New Home

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Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research Psychoanalysis and Social Critique

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A sequence of letters from Otto Fenichel 3 captures an intense moment in Michael Balint's life, one of dislocation and loss.Shortly after arriving in the UK in 1939, Balint tragically lost his wife, Alice Balint, a partner in life and thought, who was also a psychoanalyst, and an established figure of the Budapest School of psychoanalysis.He initially settled in Manchester, where he felt unhappy and uprooted.While we only have Otto Fenichel's letters, and not those written by Balint, the letters recapture Balint's search for a new home, after his leaving Budapest, and the many losses that followed.In 1941, Balint was seriously considering emigrating to the United States, and Fenichel was advising him on the situation he would be facing in the receiving country, and on the possibilities to make a living there.

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