ABSTRACT
"One of the wisest thinkers of the post-war time, a role model in every respect" was a headline in German news when Dr Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen died in Frankfurt, aged ninety-four, on 12 June 2012. In representing psychoanalysis she passionately dedicated herself to the themes and the cultural debates of her time and stimulated our creativity as female analysts. For Mitscherlich-Nielsen, "the psychoanalytic talking cure is always jigsawed of two speeches: one in the analytical treatment rooms and the other in public spaces, for public engagement was for her always a dedication to psychoanalysis". Margarete Nielsen and Alexander Mitscherlich married in 1955. The German feminist discourse was significantly influenced by many of her lectures, articles, books, and her publishing activities as co-editor of the Psyche. Mitscherlich-Nielsen is said to have primarily depicted women as victims of National Socialist leadership and therefore freed them from any responsibility and blame.
