Freud's "outstanding" colleague/Jung's "twin brother" : the suppressed psychoanalytic and political significance of Otto Gross / Gottfried M. Heuer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heuer, Gottfried, 1944- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gross, Otto, 1877-1920.

Gross, Otto.

Psychoanalysts--Austria--Biography.

Psychoanalysts.

Austria.

Psychoanalysis--History.

Psychoanalysis.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

1 edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

Otto Gross was the first analyst to link his work with radical politics, connecting inner, personal transformation with outer, collective change. Since his death in 1920 his work has been suppressed, despite his seminal influence on the developing analytic discipline and on the fields of sociology, philosophy and literature. Here Gottfried M. Heuer introduces Gross' life and ideas, using an innovative, historiographic methodology he terms 'trans-historical': a psychoanalytic, intersubjective, and trans-temporal approach to the past, aimed at 'healing wounded history' in the present. Heuer considers several previously unpublished sources to explore Gross's ideas and legacy as well as his unusually bohemian life. His use of the anarchist concept of mutuality to develop a relational and intersubjective approach in his own analytic theory and clinical practice was unique, and his work had a lasting, yet unacknowledged, influence on Freud, Jung and many other analysts. Heuer also explores Gross paradigmatic father-son battle with his father Hans, who established the science of criminology, and touches upon Gross's links to the literary field of the early twentieth century, as well as German expressionism, Dadaism, and Anglo-American literature. This multi-faceted approach to Gross's work and its influence puts him firmly on the map of the historiography of analysis as well as linking this field with the disciplines of the history of law, criminology, literature, sociology and philosophy. In addition, Gross's continuing relevance for clinical and political ideas is addressed. This book will be essential reading for Jungian and Freudian analysts, psychotherapists and counsellors, academics and students of analysis, politics, history, criminology and sociology. Book jacket.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: news of an unknown

"Healing wounded history" : looking back to the future : a trans-historical, intersubjective, psychoanalytic, and sacral-political methodology

Author and subject

Psychoanalysis politicized and sacralized

Psychoanalytic historiography

The work of Otto Gross

Gross's influence on the development of psychoanalytical theory and clinical practice

Revolutionary politics, ensouled

Philosophical origins : revolutionary politics, psychology and the sacred

Otto Gross : a brief life

Echoes and traces : the suppression of Otto Gross and "the return of the repressed"

Conclusion

Appendix: Mendrisio, spring1911

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415728751

0415728754

9781138899698

1138899690

OCLC:

936349765