Freud and the Émigré: Austrian Émigrés, Exiles and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1930s-1970s

ISBN-13: 9783030517861 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 277 str.

Elana Shapira; Daniela Finzi

Recenzje

"Although they were written largely before COVID-19 hit, he eleven essays in this collection resonate uncannily with our experience of the pandemic ... . the book's chapters range across theory and methodology in history and psychoanalysis, but also in human memory and its repression, modernism, Sigmund and other Freuds of note, art and architecture, language, violence, the persistence of anti-Semitism within and outside of Austria, material culture and dispossession, fantasy and nostalgia, identity, gender and marginalization." (Elizabeth Ann Danto, Psychoanalysis and History, Vol. 23 (3), 2021)

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Austrian Émigrés and Exiles and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain from the 1930s through the 1970s- Elana Shapira

2. The Promised Land: Freud’s Dream of England- Liliane Weissberg

3. Ernst L. Freud, Domestic Architect: Zuhause in Berlin, at Home in London- Volker M. Welter

4. Intellectual hero, most beloved master: Stefan Zweig and Sigmund Freud- Werner Michler

5. Émigrés, Exiles, and Strangers: Berthold Viertel and 1930s Cinema in Britain- Laura Marcus

6. The Psychoanalyzed Artist: Oskar Kokoschka in British Exile- Régine Bonnefoit

7. Anna Freud Shaping Child Education and Promoting "Democratic Citizenship" in Britain- Michal Shapira

8. Whose/Which "Freud"? Social Context and Discourse Analysis of the "Controversial Discussions"- Mitchell G. Ash

9. Exile, War Work, and Integrated Analysis- Louis Rose

10. Marie Jahoda Deconstructing Freud- Elana Shapira

11. Hilde Spiel’s Freud: Jews, Exile, and a Viennese Legacy- Lisa Silverman

O autorze

Elana Shapira is Lecturer in Design History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria, and a cultural and design historian. She is the project leader of the Austrian Science Fund research project “Visionary Vienna: Design and Society 1918–1934” (2017-2021).

Daniela Finzi is Lecturer in the complementary curriculum in Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, and a literature and cultural historian. She has been scientific director and board member of the Sigmund Freud Privatstiftung since 2016.

Blurb

This collection of essays presents new perspectives on Freud’s role in the lives of Austrian émigrés and exiles in Britain from the 1930s to the 1970s. It explores the creative ways in which authors, art historians, psychoanalysts, sociologists and artists accessed Freudian thinking and fashioned their own Freudian languages. Above all, the book seeks to examine the influence of Freud on the scientific and creative writing of émigrés and exiles, as well as on their professional positioning in British society. It probes the collective attempt to fashion an imagined ‘Viennese community’, represented through the promotion of a humanised language and a progressive social engagement. Moving beyond narrow understandings of psychoanalysis either as therapy or intellectual paradigm, the volume explores its broader cultural roles. By exploring psychoanalysis in terms of its specific cultural relationship with Austria, as well as Britain, the chapters show how psychoanalysis also created connections between the two countries in the immediate postwar period.