Léopold Szondi

Szondi was born in city of Nyitra (in present-day Slovakia) and raised in a German and Slovak-speaking Jewish family.

His mother, who died very soon, was remembered by the family as an illiterate, unwholesome woman who had to be supervised by the elder siblings during her depressive periods.

I used to say the prayer called Kaddish every morning and evening due to Jewish customs in front of the communion for a whole year.

[5] By then, Szondi was widely acknowledged as an internationally renowned psychoanalyst, who had sought a third way between Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung.

Connecting with our collective unconscious through his method called "Fate Analysis," Szondi claimed, would allow us to achieve a higher degree of liberty, as we become free to follow or reject the "fatal" impulses coming from the presence of the ancestors in our psychic field.

[6] Szondi never achieved the fame of Freud and Jung, but by the time of his death in 1986 he had gathered a loyal following.