1st Edition

Sexual Revolutions Psychoanalysis, History and the Father

Edited By Gottfried Heuer Copyright 2011
312 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The ideas of psychoanalyst Otto Gross (1877-1920) have had a seminal influence on the development of psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice and yet his work has been largely overlooked. For Freud, he was one of only two analysts ‘capable of making an original contribution' (Jung was the other), and Jung called Gross 'my twin brother' in the course of their mutual analysis. This is a major... Read more

Heuer, ‘The Angel of History’: ‘The Past and the Present are Entwined like Lovers in an Embrace.’ Part I: History. Lu, Jung and History: Adumbrations of a Post-Jungian Approach to Psychohistory. Bennett, Sexual Revolutions – Towards a Brief History. Part II: Fathers and Sons. Muhlbacher, Elementary my dear Holmes – Hans Gross, the father of Criminology and Arthur Conan Doyle. Gilman, Kafka, Sex and the Jews. Dienes, Gross vs. Gross. Olenhusen, Sigmund Freud, Max Weber and the Sexual Revolution. Part III: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Sociology. Springer, Freud, Gross, Sexual Revolution. Heuer, The Birth of Intersubjectivity: Otto Gross and the Development of Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Practice. Totton, Wilhelm Reich’s Theory of Sexuality. Michaels, Otto Gross’ Influence on German-language Writers. Turner, ‘Making History’: D.H.Lawrence, Frieda Weekley and Otto Gross. Whimster, No Place for a Sexual Revolutionary. Heidelberg and Otto Gross. Part IV: Sexual Revolutions. Orbach,Kahr, Sexual Liberation: Where Have We Got To? Psychoanalysis and the engagement with Sexual Liberation. Samuels, Carnal Critiques: Promiscuity, Politics, Imagination, Spirituality and Hypocrisy. Hon, Rethinking Virginity: A Post-Jungian Reframing. Heuer, The Colour of Rainbows: The Advent of Post-Postmodernity and the Notion of Forgiveness. Heuer, ‘The Sacredness of Love’ or: ‘Relationship as Third, as Religion.’ – Otto Gross' Concepts of Relationship Today.

Biography

Gottfried Heuer is a Jungian Training Analyst and Supervisor, and a Body psychotherapist, with over 35 years' private practice in West London. He is an independent scholar with over 60 published papers on the links between analysis, radical politics, body psychotherapy and spirituality, and on the history of analysis. He is co-founder and Chair of the International Otto Gross Society, for which he (co-)edited seven volumes of Congress proceedings, and editor of Sacral Revolutions: Reflecting on the Work of Andrew Samuels -- Cutting Edges in Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis, Routledge.