What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis
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What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis

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What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis

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What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis explores the impact Nazism had on the evolution of psychoanalysis and tackles the enigma of the transformation of individual hate into mass psychosis and of the autocratic creation of a neo-reality.

Addressing the effects of the Holocaust on the psychoanalytic world, this book does not focus on the suffering of the survivors but the analysis of the concrete mechanisms of destruction that affected language and thought, their impact on the practice of psychoanalysis and the defences that psychoanalysts tried to find against the linguistic, legal and symbolic chaos that struck the foundations of reality. Laurence Kahn discusses the struggle against the appropriation, by the Nazi language, of key terms such as demonic nature, drives, ideals and, above all, the Selbsterhaltungstrieb (the self-preservation drive), which became, with Hitler, the axis of the living space policy, the " Lebensraum ".

Covering key topics such as trauma, transgenerational issues, silence and secrecy and the depredation of culture, this is an essential work for psychoanalysts and anyone wishing to understand how strongly the development of psychoanalysis was affected by Nazism.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
ISBN
9781000630336
Edition
1
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Psychoanalysis
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Series Editor’s foreword
  9. Introduction: old words, new meanings
  10. 1 The law beyond the law
  11. 2 The man Moses or brother Hitler
  12. 3 The Freudian heresy
  13. 4 The parasite and identity: the Gestalt
  14. 5 Psychoanalysis and Weltanschauung in 1930
  15. 6 Purifying psychoanalysis scientifically
  16. 7 Hartmann: logos against bios
  17. 8 Extreme trauma: which unconscious?
  18. 9 Mother, child and empathy
  19. 10 The liquidation of tragedy
  20. 11 The temptation of kitsch
  21. 12 What about hatred?
  22. Conclusion: the foundations of words
  23. Index