Ilka Quindeau
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Ilka Quindeau

Ilka Quindeau was born in 1962 and is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychoanalysis at the Frankfurt University of Applied Science. She is also a practicing psychoanalyst. From 2018 to 2020, Quindeau was president of the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) in Berlin. In addition to psychoanalytic theory, her research focuses include topics related to gender, biography, and trauma.
Ilka Quindeau was born in 1962 and is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychoanalysis at the Frankfurt University of Applied Science. She is also a practicing psychoanalyst. From 2018 to 2020, Quindeau was president of the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) in Berlin. In addition to psychoanalytic theory, her research focuses include topics related to gender, biography, and trauma.

PUBLICATIONS

Psychoanalysis and Anti-Semitism
Year of Publication: 2025
Ilka QuindeauYear of Publication: 2025

A psychoanalytical perspective on anti-Semitism

The Frankfurt School concepts of the authoritarian personality and of Schuldabwehr (whereby postwar Germans developed resentment towards Jews precisely because of the crimes that were committed against them, which foisted a feeling of guilt upon them) have dominated the discourse on anti-Semitism in Germany...