1st Edition

What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis

By Laurence Kahn Copyright 2022
170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Series Editor's foreword by Gabriela Legorreta. 1. Introduction: old words, new meanings  2. The law beyond the law  3. The mMoses or brother Hitler  4. The Freudian heresy  5. The parasite and identity: the Gestalt  6. Psychoanalysis and Weltanschauung in 1930  7. Purifying psychoanalysis scientifically  8. Hartmann: logos against bios  9. Extreme trauma: which unconscious?  10. Mother, child and empathy  11. The liquidation of tragedy  12. The temptation of kitsch  13. What about hatred?  14. Conclusion: the foundations of words

Biography

Laurence Kahn is Training and Supervising Analyst at the French Psychoanalytic Association (APF) and is a former President of the APF (2008–2010). In 2014, she received the Maurice Bouvet Award, and in 2021, she received the IPA award for Extraordinarily Meritorious Service to Psychoanalysis.