The Repression of Psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel and the Political Freudians (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226390697)

By examining the private correspondence of a circle of German psychoanalyst emigr駸 that included Otto Fenichel, Annie Reich, and Edith Jacobson, Russell Jacoby recaptures the radical zeal of classical analysis and the efforts of the Fenichel group to preserve psychoanalysis as a social and political theory, open to a broad range of intellectuals regardless of their medical background. In tracing this effort, he illuminates the repression by psychoanalysis of its own radical past and its transformation into a narrow medical technique. This book is of critical interest to the general reader as well as to psychoanalytic historians, theorists, and therapists.


Author: Russell Jacoby
ISBN-10: 0226390691
ISBN-13: 9780226390697
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/1986
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.28w x 0.50d