What Nazism did to psychoanalysis / by Laurence Kahn ; translated by Andrew Weller.
| Author/creator | Kahn, Laurence |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Ce que le nazisme a fait à la psychanalyse. English |
| Series | The International Psychoanalytical Association psychoanalytic ideas and applications series |
| Contents | The law beyond the law -- The man Moses or Brother Hitler -- The Freudian heresy -- The parasite and identity: the Gestalt -- Psychoanalysis and Weltanschauung in -- Purifying psychoanalysis scientifically -- Hartmann: logos against bios -- Extreme trauma: which unconscious? -- Mother, child and empathy -- Liquidation of the tragedy -- The temptation of kitsch -- What about hatred? -- Conclusion: The Foundations of words. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Kahn, Laurence. What Nazism did to psychoanalysis London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023 9781032294551 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022007354 |
| ISBN | 9781003301660 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |