Psychological Theory in the Life and Work of Antal Szerb: Freud, Adler and a Previously Unknown Autograph Manuscrip

Czipott, Peter V. (2018) Psychological Theory in the Life and Work of Antal Szerb: Freud, Adler and a Previously Unknown Autograph Manuscrip. Psychologia Hungarica Caroliensis, 6 (2). pp. 44-67. ISSN 2064-2504

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Abstract

Antal Szerb was one of the foremost literary scholars and novelists of interwar Hungary. He became interested in Freudian psychology in his adolescence; his views evolved to grant predominance to Adlerian individual psychology. In the 1929-30 academic year, he obtained a state stipend for literary study in England. While there, he was accepted into the London section of the International Association for Individual Psychology (IAIP) on the strength of a letter of introduction from the Hungarian writer and Adlerian psychologist, Oliver Brachfeld. This paper presents a brief review of Szerb’s psychological interests and their effect on his scholarly and literary prose; it also presents a newly discovered manuscript page in his hand, tied to Brachfeld’s letter of introduction. While Szerb’s association with the London IAIP section was brief and perhaps superficial, Adlerian psychology left important traces in his oeuvre.

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