What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis (The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series)

By: Laurence Kahn

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Synopsis: 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 mechanisms of destruction that affected language and thought, their impact on the practice of psychoanalysis and the defences that psychoanalysts tried to find against the linguistic, legal and symbolic chaos that struck the foundations of reality. Laurence Kahn discusses the struggle against the appropriation, by the Nazi language, of key terms such as demonic nature, drives, ideals and, above all, the Selbsterhaltungstrieb (the self-preservation drive), which became, with Hitler, the axis of the living space policy, the "Lebensraum". Covering key topics such as trauma, transgenerational issues, silence and secrecy and the depredation of culture, this is an essential work for psychoanalysts and anyone wishing to understand how strongly the development of psychoanalysis was affected by Nazism.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 160 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000630336
Related ISBNs:: 9781003301660, 9781032294537, 9781032294551
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 09/09/22
Copyrighted By:: Presses Universitaires de France/Humensis, Ce que le nazisme a fait à la psychanalyse
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Psychology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.