Raymond de Saussure (French: [ʁɛmɔ̃ də sosyʁ]; 2 August 1894 – 29 October 1971) was a Swiss psychoanalyst, the first president of the European Psychoanalytical Federation.
[1] He is the son of the famous linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, and a student of Sigmund Freud.
During and after the Second World War he lived in New York City, where he predicted Adolf Hitler's suicide in 1942, due to Hitler's paranoid hysterical state;[3] in 1952, Saussure returned to Switzerland from the United States.
[4] He founded the Geneva Museum of the History of Science with Marc Cramer and others in 1955.
[5] He founded the European Psychoanalytic Federation with Wilhelm Solms-Rödelheim in 1966, and Saussure served as its president until his death from prostate cancer.