Berlin Psychoanalytic : psychoanalysis and culture in Weimar Republic Germany and beyond / Veronika Fuechtner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuechtner, Veronika, 1969-

Series:

Weimar and now ; 43.

Weimar and now : German cultural criticism ; 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berliner Psychoanalytisches Institut--History--20th century.

Berliner Psychoanalytisches Institut.

Berliner Psychoanalytisches Institut--Influence.

Psychoanalysis and culture--Germany--History--20th century.

Psychoanalysis and culture.

Psychoanalysis and culture--Palestine--History--20th century.

Psychoanalysis and culture--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Psychoanalysts--Germany--Berlin--Biography.

Psychoanalysts.

Authors, German--Germany--Berlin--Biography.

Authors, German.

Artists--Germany--Berlin--Biography.

Artists.

Modernism (Aesthetics)--Germany--Berlin--History--20th century.

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Berlin (Germany)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Berlin (Germany).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Psychoanalysis and culture in Weimar Republic Germany and beyond

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One hundred years after the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute was established, this book recovers the cultural and intellectual history connected to this vibrant organization and places it alongside the London Bloomsbury group, the Paris Surrealist circle, and the Viennese fin-de-siècle as a crucial chapter in the history of modernism. Taking us from World War I Berlin to the Third Reich and beyond to 1940's Palestine and 1950's New York-and to the influential work of the Frankfurt School-Veronika Fuechtner traces the network of artists and psychoanalysts that began in Germany and continued in exile. Connecting movements, forms, and themes such as Dada, multi-perspectivity, and the urban experience with the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, she illuminates themes distinctive to the Berlin psychoanalytic context such as war trauma, masculinity and femininity, race and anti-Semitism, and the cultural avant-garde. In particular, she explores the lives and works of Alfred Döblin, Max Eitingon, Georg Groddeck, Karen Horney, Richard Huelsenbeck, Count Hermann von Keyserling, Ernst Simmel, and Arnold Zweig.

Contents:

Berlin soulscapes : Alfred Döblin talks to Ernst Simmel

Wild psychoanalysis, religion, and race : Georg Groddeck talks to Count Hermann von Keyserling (among others)

The Berlin Psychoanalytic in Palestine : Arnold Zweig talks to Max Eitingon

Berlin Dada and psychoanalysis in New York : Richard Huelsenbeck and Charles Hulbeck talk to Karen Horney.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613278531

9781283278539

1283278537

9780520950382

0520950380

OCLC:

747409496