Old and dirty gods religion, antisemitism, and the origins of psychoanalysis / Pamela Cooper-White.

Contents "So, you have seen the gang now": the Wednesday Night Psychological Society -- "Old and dirty gods": religion in Freud's Vienna circle -- The analyst pastor: Oskar Pfister (1873-1956) -- "Enduring life without illusion": Theodor Reik (1888-1969) -- Soul, will, and the search for immortality: Otto Rank (1884-1939) -- Death and resurrection: Sabina Spielrein (1885-1942) -- "Father, don't you see I'm burning?": antisemitism as total context -- "In the presence of the burning children": psychoanalysis, religion and society then and now.
Abstract "Freud's collection of antiquities - his "old and dirty gods"- stood as silent witnesses to the early analysts' paradoxical fascination and hostility toward religion. Pamela Cooper-White argues that antisemitism, reaching back centuries before the Holocaust, and the acute perspective from the margins that it engendered among the first analysts, stands at the very origins of psychoanalytic theory and practice. The core insight of psychoanalytic thought - that there is always more beneath the surface appearances of reality, and that this "more" is among other things affective, memory-laden and psychological- cannot fail to have had something to do with the experiences of the first Jewish analysts in their position of marginality and oppression in Habsburg-Catholic Vienna of the 20th century. The book concludes with some parallels between the decades leading to the Holocaust and the current political situation in the U.S. and Europe, and their implications for psychoanalytic practice today" -- Provided by publisher.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Cooper-White, Pamela, 1955- author. Old and dirty gods Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2018 9780415790987
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