Martin S. Bergmann (February 15, 1913 – January 22, 2014) was a clinical professor of psychology of the New York University post-doctoral program where he taught the course on the history of psychoanalysis. He was a major voice in the post-Freudian analysis and authored books on human conditions like the Holocaust, the phenomenology of love and child sacrifice. He was a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Family He was the son of Hugo Bergmann,The Hugo Bergmann Papers a Prague-born Israeli philosopher, and father of Michael Bergmann.
On film Bergmann contributed to the documentaries "The Century of the Self" (2002)benatlas.com by Adam Curtis and Young Dr. Freud by David Grubin. He appeared as Prof. Louis Levy in Woody Allen's 1989 feature Crimes and Misdemeanors, and played SS NCO Zablocie in Schindler's List.
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) - Professor Louis Levy Schindler's List (1993) - SS NCO Zablocie
Death Bergmann died on January 22, 2014, aged 100.
Partial bibliography The Anatomy of Loving: The Story of Man's Quest to Know What Love Is (1987), Ballantine Books Generations of the Holocaust (1991), Columbia Univ. Press, In the Shadow of Moloch (1992), Columbia University Press What Silent Love Hath Writ: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Shakespeare's Sonnets (with his son Michael Bergmann, 2008), Separate Star, Understanding Dissidence and Controversy in the History of Psychoanalysis (2004), Other Press "The Unconscious in Shakespeare's Plays" (2013), Karnac
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External links Martin S. Bergmann talks about his life and turning 100