Abstract
This paper investigates the ideas on education of Wilhelm Stekel (1868–1940), a prolific, yet almost forgotten psychoanalyst, early member of Freud's Vienna Circle as well as an early apostate.Stekel demonstrated that hypocritical civilisation, modern family life and pedagogics were responsible for the spreading of a culture of “psychosexual infantilism”. In order to prevent the genesis of neurotic fixations and compulsions within the home, this physician of the soul recommanded a liberal attitude of parents towards autoerotism, training of children without either severe punishment or excess of affection, and a parenthood of only happily married, genuine adults. For the sake of the children, unhappy marriages had to be ended through divorce, without obstruction by the church or the state.
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