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Victor Tausk (also Viktor; March 12, 1879 – July 3, 1919) was a pioneer psychoanalyst and neurologist. A student and a colleague of Sigmund Freud, he was the earliest exponent of psychoanalytical concepts with regard to clinical psychosis and the personality of the artist. ==Career== Tausk had been a lawyer and writer when he began to study medicine in Vienna around 1910.〔, p286〕 He joined the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society and soon began to contribute papers. During the First World War, he was recruited as a military doctor. The originality of his contribution to military medicine is contained in his theories on psychoses and his understanding of the phenomenon of desertion (Tréhel, G., 2006). Building up on his war experience, he wrote on war-induced psychoses while the other psychoanalysts were working on war neurosis. He took part in the debate on the disorder within the Society (Tréhel, G., 2011). In 1919, after he had stepped out from Freud's shadow, Tausk published a paper on the origin of a delusion common to a wide array of schizophrenic patients, namely that an alien device, malignant and remote, had influenced their thoughts and their behavior. This device was referred to as ''the Influencing Machine'' and the paper was called ''On the Origin of the "Influencing Machine" in Schizophrenia''. It is the most well known of his publications, reaching beyond his own field of research into others, such as literary theory, for example. This work influenced many later psychoanalytic thought, including Heinz Kohut in his work the 'Analysis of the Self', where narcissistic regression showed great similarities with psychotic fantasmatic configurations. Many of his other works include 'On Masturbation' and the 'The Psychology of the War Deserter' all of which have generated much controversy and discussion, arguably due to his experience within the psychoanalytic community. However Paul Roazen has argued that Tausk's legacy is still ongoing, and that his influence has not been properly acknowledged by the psychological, or psychoanalytical communities. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victor Tausk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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