Description
| Product ID: | 9781032294537 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series |
| Title: | What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis |
| Authors: | Author: Laurence Kahn |
| Page Count: | 170 |
| Subjects: | Social and political philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Fascism & Nazism, Psychotherapy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-09-09 |
