Ilse Grubrich-Simitis

Ilse Grubrich-Simitis (22 February 1936 – 8 August 2024) was a German psychoanalyst. She worked in private practice and as a training analyst at the Frankfurt Psychoanalytical Institute.^[1]

Biography

Ilse Grubrich-Simitis was born on 22 February 1936.^[2] She married the lawyer and data-protection expert Spiros Simitis on 3 August 1963. Grubrich-Simitis died on 8 August 2024, at the age of 88.^[3]

Freud

Grubrich-Simitis worked for several decades as an academic researcher. The focus of her work was Sigmund Freud, on whom she published several substantial volumes, contributing to a sharpened appreciation of Freud's written work. Since the 1960s she worked for S. Fischer Verlag on the publisher's ten volume compilation of Freud's works and letters, initially as a publishing-editor and more recently with overall responsibility for the project. Recently she was also a co-editor of the publisher's Yearbook of Psychoanalysis.^[4][5]

Awards and honours

• 1998 Sigmund Freud Prize for Academic prose
• 1998 Mary S. Sigourney Award

Output (selection)

• Sigmund Freud: Werkausgabe in zwei Bänden. Band 1: Elemente der Psychoanalyse. Band 2: Anwendungen der Psychoanalyse. Hrsg. und komm. von Anna Freud und Ilse Grubrich-Simitis. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-596-17216-0.
• Michelangelos Moses und Freuds „Wagstück“. Eine Collage. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-10-074400-4.
• Hundert Jahre „Traumdeutung“ von Sigmund Freud. Gemeinsam mit Mark Solms und Jean Starobinski. Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2000.
• Urbuch der Psychoanalyse : hundert Jahre Studien über Hysterie von Josef Breuer und Sigmund Freud. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-10-007903-5.

References

1. "Ilse Grubrich-Simitis". Psychoanalytikerinnen. Biografisches Lexikon, Hamburg. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
2. "Psychoanalytikerinnen in Deutschland". Psychoanalytikerinnen. Biografisches Lexikon (in German). 14 April 1956. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
3. Der S. Fischer Verlag trauert um Ilse Grubrich-Simitis (in German)
4. "Ilse Grubrich-Simitis .... Award Year: 1998". The Sigourney Award Trust, Seattle, WA. Archived from the original on 22 February 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
5. Steven Marcus (16 February 1997). "The Latest Word (book review)". The author has traveled far in the Freud archives, and finds that there's a long, long way to go. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 22 February 2018.