Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe - Narrative Assemblages of Self-Analysis, Life Writing, and Fiction

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Agnieszka Sobolewska
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.2023
• EAN: 9781032579764
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3257976-4
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: The History of Psychoanalysis Series
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Psychotherapy, Central Europe, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis