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

ISBN-13: 9781855752504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 224 str.

Steiner Riccardo; Riccardo Steiner

Opis

This book examines the effects of the emigration of German and Austrian analysts during the Nazi persecutions, especially to London. In particular it draws upon the correspondence between Ernest Jones and Anna Freud to illuminate the attitudes of those two central figures to 'the politics of emigration'.

Spis treści

Preface -- Introduction -- The first emigration wave (1933–1935) and the first "Sorgenkinder" -- "What shall those members do?" -- The refugees' American dream -- The final blow -- To die in freedom -- Special "Kinder" and special "Sorge" -- Jones, Anna, the Viennese "Sorgenkinder", and "the English way of life" -- Appendix One -- Appendix Two

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.