Berlin Psychoanalytic: Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and Beyond Volume 43 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520258372)

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-si鐵le as a crucial chapter in the history of modernism. Taking us from World War I Berlin to the Third Reich and beyond to 1940s Palestine and 1950s 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 Dlin, Max Eitingon, Georg Groddeck, Karen Horney, Richard Huelsenbeck, Count Hermann von Keyserling, Ernst Simmel, and Arnold Zweig.

Author: Veronika Fuechtner
ISBN-10: 0520258371
ISBN-13: 9780520258372
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2011
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2012