What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis

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.

List of contents

Series Editor's foreword by Gabriela Legorreta. 1. Introduction: old words, new meanings 2. The law beyond the law 3. The mMoses or brother Hitler 4. The Freudian heresy 5. The parasite and identity: the Gestalt 6. Psychoanalysis and Weltanschauung in 1930 7. Purifying psychoanalysis scientifically 8. Hartmann: logos against bios 9. Extreme trauma: which unconscious? 10. Mother, child and empathy 11. The liquidation of tragedy 12. The temptation of kitsch 13. What about hatred? 14. Conclusion: the foundations of words

About the author

Laurence Kahn is Training and Supervising Analyst at the French Psychoanalytic Association (APF) and is a former President of the APF (2008–2010). In 2014, she received the Maurice Bouvet Award, and in 2021, she received the IPA award for Extraordinarily Meritorious Service to Psychoanalysis.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Laurence Kahn, Laurence (French Psychoanalytic Association Kahn
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781032294551
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3229455-1
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Fascism & Nazism, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis