- Paperback: 218 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press; New edition edition (1 Sep 1986)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0226390691
- ISBN-13: 978-0226390697
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.4 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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By examining the private correspondence of a circle of German psychoanalyst emigres that included Otto Fenichel, Annie Reich, and Edith Jacobson, Russell Jacoby recaptures the radical zeal of classical analysis and the efforts of the Fenichel group to preserve psychoanalysis as a social and political theory, open to a broad range of intellectuals regardless of their medical background. In tracing this effort, he illuminates the repression by psychoanalysis of its own radical past and its transformation into a narrow medical technique. This book is of critical interest to the general reader as well as to psychoanalytic historians, theorists, and therapists.
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Russell Jacoby is currently teaching at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing and Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism.
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ON SATURDAY, 12 March 1938, Sigmund Freud jotted in his diary "Finis Austriae" as the Nazis marched into Vienna. Read the first page
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Well worth the effort, as this is a geneology of psycho-therapy, way before it became full of stuffed shirts and incomprehensible jargon. This details its beginnings, when therapy segued with socialism and marxism before and after, World War One. Jewish intellectuals in Berlin, Vienna and Budapest made psychotherapy into a vibrant counter-cultural force, aiming to build a new vision based on freeing people from repression. They were joined by other intellectual forces from the respective nations. These transformed therapy into a cultural force, cutting across religion, creed and gender.
This also included the early ideas around sex economy, later taken up by Reich and various other emancipatory causes. Women were welcomed to participate on an equal footing, for the first time. The whole era was a ferment of ideas that was cut down, firstly by WW1, and then later by the rise of the Nasties.
In between, we have Otto Fenichel the Libertarian Freudian Communist, Otto Gross the libertarian Nietzschean Anarchist therapist, Carl Jung the esoteric volkist Freudian, Erich Fromm, the Marxist, Karl Abraham, Melanie Klein, Alfred Kurella, Ernst Simmel, Edith Jacobson, Bruno Bettelheim, Annie Reich, Kate Friedlander amongst others.
These were the intellectual elite of an era.
When the Nasties chased them out of Central Europe and they ended up in the USA. The left tradition of the States could not assimilate them. They were deemed as subversives by the regime and not welcomed, only tolerated by the Hoover regime. These Central European radicals if they wanted to stay alive, had to disavow their previous beliefs to inhabit a no mans land. America ensured they were finally neutered.
The American therapeutic tradition arose through the medical profession, a descent into conformity as the rigorous scientific training transformed, then killed any passion. Instead it was churned into bland standardisation. Therapy was nullified in the hands of the new professional ethos. Very few new insights have emerged since. The New therapeutic journal prose is written in a brisk academic style. This stops the casual reader from engaging. Therapy has attained the status of a medieval guild.
Freud to his credit always wanted lay professionals to join and not to close the door and only allow medically trained people to have the privilege of therapeutic engagement.
Subsequently, therapy has seceded from commenting upon art, the social world, economics, history and work. It has coralled itself around the family, merging with genetics to create an ersatz view of the world. This needs to be exposed and a return to the origins can help invigorate the field, before everyone drops off asleep.
This is a brilliant easy to read and understand, return journey free of jargon. This book aims to to reignite the passion.
This also included the early ideas around sex economy, later taken up by Reich and various other emancipatory causes. Women were welcomed to participate on an equal footing, for the first time. The whole era was a ferment of ideas that was cut down, firstly by WW1, and then later by the rise of the Nasties.
In between, we have Otto Fenichel the Libertarian Freudian Communist, Otto Gross the libertarian Nietzschean Anarchist therapist, Carl Jung the esoteric volkist Freudian, Erich Fromm, the Marxist, Karl Abraham, Melanie Klein, Alfred Kurella, Ernst Simmel, Edith Jacobson, Bruno Bettelheim, Annie Reich, Kate Friedlander amongst others.
These were the intellectual elite of an era.
When the Nasties chased them out of Central Europe and they ended up in the USA. The left tradition of the States could not assimilate them. They were deemed as subversives by the regime and not welcomed, only tolerated by the Hoover regime. These Central European radicals if they wanted to stay alive, had to disavow their previous beliefs to inhabit a no mans land. America ensured they were finally neutered.
The American therapeutic tradition arose through the medical profession, a descent into conformity as the rigorous scientific training transformed, then killed any passion. Instead it was churned into bland standardisation. Therapy was nullified in the hands of the new professional ethos. Very few new insights have emerged since. The New therapeutic journal prose is written in a brisk academic style. This stops the casual reader from engaging. Therapy has attained the status of a medieval guild.
Freud to his credit always wanted lay professionals to join and not to close the door and only allow medically trained people to have the privilege of therapeutic engagement.
Subsequently, therapy has seceded from commenting upon art, the social world, economics, history and work. It has coralled itself around the family, merging with genetics to create an ersatz view of the world. This needs to be exposed and a return to the origins can help invigorate the field, before everyone drops off asleep.
This is a brilliant easy to read and understand, return journey free of jargon. This book aims to to reignite the passion.
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