John Carl Flügel (13 June 1884 – 6 August 1955), was a British experimental psychologist and a practising psychoanalyst.
Early life edit
Flügel was born in Liverpool on 13 June 1884, to a German father and English mother.[1]
Career edit
Flügel's book Psychoanalytic Study of the Family (1921) was acclaimed by Eric Berne for its insights into the Oedipus complex.[2] He also published Men and their Motives (1934) and The Psychology of Clothes (1930),[3] the latter continuing to influence thinking on the subject into the 21st century.[4]
In Man, Morals and Society (1945), Flugel charted a movement from egocentrism to social awareness by way of what he saw as a hierarchy of expanding loyalties.[5] Reaching back to his old mentor, he also highlighted “the distinction that McDougall has sometimes made between an 'ideal', which is little more than an intellectual assent to a moral proposition, and a 'sentiment', which involves a real mobilisation”.[6]
Personal life edit
In 1913 Flügel married Ingeborg Klingberg, who also became a psychoanalyst. They had one daughter. Flügel died in London in 1955.
References edit
- ^ Graham Richards, 'Flügel, John Carl (1884–1955)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004 [1]
- ^ Eric Berne, A Layman's Guide to Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (1976) p. 134
- ^ O. L. Zangwill, 'Flugel, John Charles', in R. Gregory ed., The Oxford Companion to the Mind (1987) p. 264
- ^ R. Koppen, Virginia Woolf, Fashion and Literary Modernism (2009) p. 59
- ^ J. C. Flugel, Man, Morals and Society (1973) p. 242-3 and p. 317
- ^ J. C. Flugel, Man, Morals and Society (1973) p. 67
Further reading edit
- Graham Richards, Flügel, John Carl (1884–1955), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- FLUGEL, John Carl, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, accessed 30 Jan 2012