{"product_id":"nazi-psychoanalysis-v1-laurence-a-rickels-9780816636976","title":"Nazi Psychoanalysis V1: Volume I: Only Psychoanalysis Won the War","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e A revolutionary new approach to the place of Nazi ideology in twentieth-century thought \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Psychoanalysis was a symptom of everything the Nazis reviled: an intellectual assault on Kultur largely perpetrated by Jews. It was also, as this remarkable work shows, an inescapable symptom of modernity, practiced, transformed, and perpetuated by and within the Nazi regime. A sweeping, magisterial work by one of the most incisive and interesting scholars of modern philosophy, theory, and culture, \u003ci\u003eNazi Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e studies the breadth of this phenomenon in order to clarify and deepen our understanding not only of psychoanalysis but of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTracing the intersections of psychoanalysis and Nazism, Laurence A. Rickels discovers startling conjunctions and continuities in writers as diverse as Adler and Adorno, Kafka and Goethe, Lacan, H. Rider Haggard, and Heidegger, and in works as different as\u003ci\u003e Der Golem\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCivilization and Its Discontents\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFaust\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/i\u003e. In a richly allusive style, he writes of psychoanalysis in multifarious incarnations, of the concept and actual history of \"insurance,\" of propaganda in theory and practice, of psychological warfare, Walt Disney, and the Frankfurt School debates--a dizzying tour of the twentieth century that helps us see how the \"corridor wars\" that arise in the course of theoretical, clinical, social, political, and cultural attempts to describe the human psyche are related to the world wars of the century in an intimate and infinitely complicated manner. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough some have used its appropriation by the Nazis to brand psychoanalysis with the political odium of fascism, Rickels instead finds an uncanny convergence--one that suggests far-reaching possibilities for both psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic criticism. His work, with its enormous intellectual and historical span, makes a persuasive argument that no element of modernity--not psychoanalysis any more than Marxism or deconstruction, cultural revolutions or technological advances-can be adequately understood without a thorough consideration of its Nazi component.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laurence A. Rickels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816636974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816636976\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.12w x 0.73d","brand":"Laurence A. Rickels","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44966116425983,"sku":"9780816636976","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_34ef9afb-b300-4296-b81e-e476c92865ea.jpg?v=1711158904","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nazi-psychoanalysis-v1-laurence-a-rickels-9780816636976","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}