Vera King

Vera King (born 1960 in Schramberg, Baden-Wurttemberg) is a German sociologist and social psychologist. She has been Professor of Sociology and Social Psychology at Goethe University Frankfurt and Director of the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt am Main since 2016.

Vera King
Born1960
Schramberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
NationalityGerman
OccupationSociologist and social psychologist

Career

After studies in sociology, psychology and educational science, King obtained her doctorate in 1994 at the University of Frankfurt am Main, writing on the significance of Freud's case study, "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria" for the theoretical development of psychoanalysis.[1] In 2002, she completed her habilitation writing on The Emergence of the New in Adolescence. Individuation, Generativity and Gender in Modernized Societies,[2] earning the venia legendi for sociology. That same year, she accepted a position at the University of Hamburg as a professor in the Department of Education,[3] specializing in socialization and development research. In March 2016, she accepted a joint professorship for sociology and psychoanalytical social psychology[4] at the Goethe University in Frankfurt together with the position of Managing Director of the Sigmund Freud Institute, which she assumed in November 2016[5]

Research

King's research and publications focus on the analysis of relationships between social conditions and individual development, between culture and the psyche. She has carried out and published on projects in the fields of youth and adolescence research, family and generation research and social-psychological cultural analyses, among others. The book Female Adolescence,[6] published in 1992 with Karin Flaake, combined social and cultural scientific analyses with developmental psychological and psychoanalytical perspectives. In later works, she examined the significance of youth/adolescence and the “adolescent space of possibility”[7] for biographical and cultural development. In particular, she investigated the intergenerational dynamics of adolescence and developed a concept of generativity at the intersection of subject and cultural theory. Her research on intergenerational relationships extends to studies on families and the psychosocial development of parents, children and adolescents in the context of migration and flight.[8][9]

King also conducts research on the psychosocial and psychological consequences of the dynamics of optimization,[10] altered relationships of time and digitalization. She is spokeswoman for the interdisciplinary research projects Aporias of Perfection in Accelerated Modernity[11] and Measured Life. Productive and Counterproductive Consequences of Digitally Quantifying Optimization. She heads these projects together with Benigna Gerisch and Hartmut Rosa (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation under the funding line Key Topics for Science and Society)[12][13][14] She also engages in research on art and psychoanalysis.[15]

Functions

King is co-editor of the journals Psyche[16] and Psychosozial.[17] She is a scientific advisor to the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin and to the Medical Academy for of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy] e. V.[18] a member of the Comité scientifique international of the Association Internationale Interactions de la Psychanalyse.[19][20]

Selected publications
  • 2019: Vera King, Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa (editors). Lost in Perfection, Impacts of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche. Routledge, 1st Edition
  • 2015: Vera King, Benigna Gerisch (Hrsg.): Perfektionierung und Destruktivität. Schwerpunktheft der Zeitschrift Psychosozial. 2015, H. 3.
  • 2013: Vera King, Burkhard Müller (eds.): Lebensgeschichten junger Frauen und Männer mit Migrationshintergrund in Deutschland und Frankreich. Interkulturelle Analysen eines deutsch-französischen Jugendforschungsprojekts. (= Schriftenreihe des Deutsch-Französischen Jugendwerks Dialoge – Dialogues. Bd. 3). Münster: Waxmann.
  • 2012: Peter Bründl, Vera King: Herausgeber des Jahrbuchs für Kinder- und Jugendlichen-Psychologie, Bd. 1: Adoleszenz – gelingende und misslingende Transformationen. Frankfurt am Main: Brandes & Apsel.
  • 2012: Herausgeberin des Schwerpunktes: Veränderte Zeiten in Kindheit und Jugend. Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung. Jg. 7, H. 1.
  • 2009: Vera King, Benigna Gerisch (eds.): Zeitgewinn und Selbstverlust. Folgen und Grenzen der Beschleunigung in der späten Moderne. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.
  • 2006: Vera King, Hans-Christoph Koller (eds.): Adoleszenz – Migration – Bildung. Bildungsprozesse Jugendlicher und junger Erwachsener mit Migrationshintergrund. Wiesbaden: VS. Zweite erweiterte Auflage 2009.
  • 2005: Vera King, Karin Flaake (eds.): Männliche Adoleszenz. Sozialisation und Bildungsprozesse zwischen Kindheit und Erwachsensein. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.
  • 2002: Die Entstehung des Neuen in der Adoleszenz. Individuation, Generativität und Geschlecht in modernisierten Gesellschaften. Opladen: Leske und Budrich (Habilitationsschrift). 2. Auflage Wiesbaden: Springer, 2013.
  • 2000: Vera King, Burkhard Müller (eds.): Adoleszenz und pädagogische Praxis. Bedeutungen von Geschlecht, Generation und Herkunft in der Jugendarbeit. Freiburg: Lambertus.
  • 2000: Hans Bosse, Vera King (eds.): Männlichkeitsentwürfe. Wandlungen und Widerstände im Geschlechterverhältnis. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.
  • 1995: Vera King: Die Urszene der Psychoanalyse. Adoleszenz und Geschlechterspannung im Fall Dora. Stuttgart: VIP/Klett-Cotta (Dissertation).
  • 1992: Karin Flaake, Vera King: Weibliche Adoleszenz. Zur Sozialisation junger Frauen. Frankfurt am Main: Campus. 4. Auflage 1998.

References
  1. Stavros Mentzos: Die Urszene der Psychoanalyse. Adoleszenz und Geschlechterspannung im Fall Dora. Psyche – Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, 50(6):574-576. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  2. Vera King: Die Entstehung des Neuen in der Adoleszenz. Indiduation, Generativität und Geschlecht in modernisierten Gesellschaften Springer 2004. Retrieved January 15, 2019
  3. Vera King (Projektleiterin), Erfolgreiche und nicht-erfolgreiche Bildungsverläufe junger Männer aus italienischen Migrantenfamilien – Transmission und Transformation in adoleszenten Generationenbeziehungen Universität Hamburg. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  4. Vera King at Goethe Universität Frankfurt . Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  5. Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Direktorium . Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  6. 2003: Karin Flaake, Vera King: Weibliche Adoleszenz. Zur Sozialisation junger Frauen. , Beltz 2003. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  7. King, Vera (2002). Die Entstehung des Neuen in der Adoleszenz., Springer 2002. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  8. King, V. ; Koller, H.-C.; Zölch, J. (2013): Dealing with Discrimination and the Struggle for Social Advancement in Migrant Families: Theoretical and Methodological Aspects of a Study on Adolescent Generational Dynamics in Turkish Migrant Families Subjected to Marginalization. In International Journal of Conflict and Violence. IJCV: Vol. 7 (1), pp. 121-134.
  9. King, V. (2018): 'Fighting for something great…‘ Intergenerational Constellations and Functions of Self-Culturalization for Adolescents in Migrant Families. In: Krüger, St.; Figlio, K.; Richards, B. (Eds.): Fomenting Political Violence: Fantasy, Language, Media, Action. Palgrave MacMillan, London, New York.
  10. 2018: Vera King, Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa (eds.), with editorial assistance from Julia Schreiber and Benedikt Salfeld: ‘Lost in Perfection.‘ Impacts of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche. London: Routledge. Link, King, V., B. Gerisch (eds.) (2015): Perfektionierung und Destruktivität. Journal Psychosozial, Issue 3/2015 Link. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  11. Aporias of Perfection in Accelerated Societies. Current cultural change in self-concepts, relationship patterns and body practices. Volkswagen Stiftung. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  12. Vera King at Volkswagen Stiftung . Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  13. Forschungsprojekte der IPU: Das vermessene Leben – Produktive und kontraproduktive Folgen der Quantifizierung in der digital optimierenden Gesellschaft International Psychoanalytic University. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  14. Christina Müller: Lost in Perfection: Impacts of Optimization on Culture and Psyche, Soziopolis 2015. . Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  15. Katharina Cichosch: "All or nothing". No-holds-barred self-revelation, dreams and destructive moments in the works of Austrian artist Richard Gerstl. Schirnmag 2017. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  16. Publisher team of Psyche - German monthly for Psychoanalysis . Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  17. "Psychosozial - Journal of Dialogue between the Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, Psychology and Psychoanalysis" . Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  18. Ärztlichen Akademie für Psychotherapie von Kindern und Jugendlichen e.V. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  19. L’A2IP . Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  20. Childhood Vulnerability Journal . Springer. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
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