Talk:Anton Ehrenzweig
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My father Anton Ehrenzweig was not a psychoanalyst although he underwent psychoanalysis himself in Vienna before the second world war. He was actually a trained lawyer who was very interested in modern art & modern music & who abandoned his formal career after fleeing Austria after the "Anschluss" with Germany in 1938. He had no formal training in his chosen subject & he told me that his own creative period came to him in a 3 month period in 1948 in London when his homeless parents in law were being put up in in my parents home & he was unemployed. He often told me that what had saved him from drowning in a legal backwater was his period in analysis, Hitler (in that he was forced to flee Austria) & meeting my mother who gave him the stability & home life he craved. His ideas can be summarized as the discovery of the organizing role of the unconscious mind in any act of creativity & an analysis of the layered structure of the unconscious mind & of the dynamic mental processes which an artist undergoes in the creative act.
How important is this entry? There are three other Ehrenzweigs, Albert A., Armin E. and Anton who were more famous lawyers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.82.221.44 (talk) 16:58, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
This page is not about his work as a lawyer but his work on the psychology of the creative mind. Kirkdale (talk) 20:05, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
