'It is a New Kind of Diaspora': Explorations in the Sociopolitical and Cultural Context of Psychoanalysis

by Riccardo Steiner

Overview

This book examines the effects of the emigration of German and Austrian analysts during the Nazi persecutions, especially to London. In particular it draws upon the correspondence between Ernest Jones and Anna Freud to illuminate the attitudes of those two central figures to 'the politics of emigration'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367325206
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/27/2019
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ricardo Steiner is a member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, and the current Honorary Archivist. Amongst other distinguished contributions to psychoanalysis, he edited, together with Pearl King, 'The Freud-Klein Controversies'. His other books, ''It's a New Kind of Diaspora':Explorations in the Sociopolitical and Cultural Context of Psychoanalysis', 'Tradition, Change, Creativity: Repercussions of the New Diaspora on Aspects of British Psychoanalysis', 'Unconscious Phantasy' and 'Within Time and Beyond Time: A Festschrift for Pearl King' are also published by Karnac Books.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 2 The first emigration wave (1933-1935) and the first "Sorgenkinder" Uncertainty and confusion in Europe and North America 3 "What'shall those members do?" Jones's politics in 1933 4 The refugees' American dream "They could emigrate for instance to Buffalo, Detroit, Cincinnati, St. Louis . . ." 5 The final blow Edith Jacobsohn and the expulsion of Jewish analysts from the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute 6 To die in freedom 7 Special "Kinder", special "Sorge" Wilhelm Reich, Edith Jacobsohn, and political neutrality in psychoanalysis 8 Jones, Anna Freud, the Viennese "Sorgenkinder", and "the English way of life".