It Is a New Kind of Diaspora: Explorations in the Sociopolitical and Cultural Context of Psychoanalysis

ISBN-13: 9780367325206 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 232 str.

Riccardo Steiner

Opis

The author, one of the most well known historians of psychoanalysis has in the numerous papers in this volume traced the relationship between psychoanalysis and the larger cultural sphere with clarity and erudition. This, the first book he has written, examines the effects of the "new diaspora" in the field - the emigration of German and Austrian a

Spis treści

1 Introduction 2 The first emigration wave (1933-1935) and the first "Sorgenkinder" Uncertainty and confusion in Europe and North America 3 "What shall those members do?" Jones's politics in 1933 4 The refugees' American dream "They could emigrate for instance to Buffalo, Detroit, Cincinnati, St. Louis . . ." 5 The final blow Edith Jacobsohn and the expulsion of Jewish analysts from the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute 6 To die in freedom 7 Special "Kinder", special "Sorge" Wilhelm Reich, Edith Jacobsohn, and political neutrality in psychoanalysis 8 Jones, Anna Freud, the Viennese "Sorgenkinder", and "the English way of life".

O autorze

Ricardo Steiner is a member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, and the current Honorary Archivist. Amongst other distinguished contributions to psychoanalysis, he edited, together with Pearl King, 'The Freud-Klein Controversies'. His other books, ''It's a New Kind of Diaspora':Explorations in the Sociopolitical and Cultural Context of Psychoanalysis', 'Tradition, Change, Creativity: Repercussions of the New Diaspora on Aspects of British Psychoanalysis', 'Unconscious Phantasy' and 'Within Time and Beyond Time: A Festschrift for Pearl King' are also published by Karnac Books.