1st Edition
The Vicissitudes of Psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia, 1930-1980
Introduction 1. Histories of psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia and its Discontents 2. Freud in the Public Discourse 3. Zeigarnik, Luria and Vygotsky. Building pathopsychology 4. Luria's Turn to Psychophysiology, Language and Consciousness 5. Soviet Unconscious: Uznadze, Bassin et al Epilogue Bibliography
Biography
Lizaveta van Munsteren, PhD, clinician and academic with a long-standing interest in psychoanalytic theory and history. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the FREEPSY project at the University of Essex, UK, working on theoretical formulations of the psychoanalytic frame in free clinics, and archives of free clinics in Vienna and Budapest.
'Lizaveta van Munsteren’s new study provides important new insights. This thoughtful, well researched book will interest anyone concerned with the history of ‘the talking cure’, and the politics of the human sciences in the Soviet empire.'
Daniel Pick, professor emeritus, Birkbeck, University of London; training analyst, the British Psychoanalytical Society
'This comprehensive and thorough study by Lizaveta van Munsteren illustrates how Freudian ideas were denied and removed in the Soviet Union. The book then effectively describes the 'return of the repressed'. Psychoanalysis re-emerged in the work of great and unforgettable figures in the history of Soviet psychology.'
Alberto Angelini, psychoanalyst, Sapienza University, National Film School (CSC), Rome, Italy
