Ilse Grubrich-Simitis Explained

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, .
• Michelangelos Moses und Freuds „Wagstück“. Eine Collage. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, .
• 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, .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Psychoanalytikerinnen. Biografisches Lexikon, Hamburg. Ilse Grubrich-Simitis. 22 February 2018.
2. Web site: Psychoanalytikerinnen in Deutschland . Psychoanalytikerinnen. Biografisches Lexikon . 14 April 1956 . de . 28 November 2020.
3. https://www.fischerverlage.de/magazin/aktuelles/der-s-fischer-verlag-trauert-um-ilse-grubrich-simitis Der S. Fischer Verlag trauert um Ilse Grubrich-Simitis
4. Web site: Ilse Grubrich-Simitis .... Award Year: 1998. The Sigourney Award Trust, Seattle, WA. 22 February 2018.
5. Web site: The Latest Word (book review). 16 February 1997. Steven Marcus. The New York Times Company. The author has traveled far in the Freud archives, and finds that there's a long, long way to go. 22 February 2018.