George Frankl

George Frankl, philosopher, psychoanalyst and writer: born Vienna 12 December 1921; married 1954 Thelma Merloo; died London 25 December 2004.

George Frankl was a philosopher, psychoanalyst and visionary thinker whose great achievements lay both in the field of therapeutic work with individuals and in his writings.

George Frankl was the elder son of Hugo Frankl and his Hungarian wife Emilia, was born in Vienna where, in the post-Great War atmosphere of the time, the debate between Communism and social democracy occupied a central position. "Most people of our acquaintance, friends of my father, fellow soldiers of the First World War, passionately deplored warfare and turned against the propaganda which justified it," he wrote in the prologue of Blueprint for a Sane Society. "I heard these arguments as a boy . . . and decided to become a philosopher in order to understand the way the mind works."