Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe

ISBN-13: 9781032579764 / Twarda / 2023 / 260 str.

Agnieszka Sobolewska

Opis

Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe explores the close relationship between psychoanalysis, psycho-medical discourses, literature, and the visual arts of the late 1800s and early 1900s in Central Europe.

Recenzje

“This book offers an eloquent and rigorous challenge to the narrative borders often surrounding the early history of psychoanalysis. Sobolewska’s vision is as transgressive as Freud would have wished for his unconscious.  Deccentering the primacy of Vienna, this work insists on the inclusion of various urban and creative centers elsewhere in Central Europe. But it extends the frame further, to privilege the formative roles of visual and literary productions, and the intersectional identities of many of its contributors. This is a truly innovative study, with ramifications for numerous disciplines.” - Diane O’Donoghue, Tufts University and the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Reading Sigmund Freud’s Correspondence with Wilhelm Fliess: Between A Lover’s Discourse and Self-Analysis

Chapter 2: The Sexological Discourse on Non-Normative Sexuality: Sándor Ferenczi, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, and Magnus Hirschfeld

Chapter 3: The Interpretation of Literary Dreams. Psychoanalysis, Trauma, and Painful Modernity: The Case of Mihály Babits

Chapter 4: The Specters of Psychoanalysis in Interwar Prague: Bohuslav Brouk and Jindřich Štyrský

Chapter 5: The Queer Case of Piotr Odmieniec Włast. Psychography, Psychoanalysis, and the Origins of Anti-Psychiatric Discourse in Poland

Chapter 6: Freud’s Queer Fellow. Georg Groddeck Between Psychoanalytic Theory and Literary Modernism

Chapter 7: Practicing Friendship. A New Beginning for Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice: Ferenczi Between Georg Groddeck and Elizabeth Severn

Conclusion

Appendix

O autorze

Agnieszka Sobolewska, PhD, teaches at the Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw. She specializes in the cultural history of psychoanalysis in Central and Eastern Europe. She is the author of articles and books devoted to life writing and psychoanalysis, the cultural history of psychology in Poland, and German colonial imagination.