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"This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to religion and psychology, including a compelling denouement that reveals new narratives about longstanding rumours in the early history of the psychoanalytic movement. This volume demonstrates that the first generation of psychoanalysts succeeded in writing themselves into the history of religious thought and sacralizing the origins of psychoanalysis"--
List of contents
1. Introduction: periodic religion and the psychoanalytic movement; 2. The first numbers and the five stages of periodical publication; 3. The religious rise and fall of the Zentralblatt; 4. Jonah's journey across the nations: Zurich, Vienna, America, and Munich; 5. Art, psychoanalytic interpretation, and the Holy Romanish Moses; 6. Triangles: thoroughbreds, dray horses, and the 'dream problem'; 7. Concluding remarks on 'the Christian Aeon' and 'us Jews'.
About the author
Maya Balakirsky Katz is a clinical psychoanalyst and an Associate Professor of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She is the author of The Visual Culture of Chabad (Cambridge, 2010) and Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation (2016). She is a co-editor of the journal Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture.
Summary
Religion helped launch new journals and generate wide readerships that periodicals demanded. This book investigates the birth of the periodicals of the psychoanalytic movement before the First World War, after which psychoanalysis emerged in new languages, cultures, and media but never returned to its pre-war publishing systems.
Foreword
A multidisciplinary analysis of the Freud-Jung wars that still rage on the discursive territory of religion.
