The Repression of Psychoanalysis

Otto Fenichel and the Political Freudians

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11084341
AutoresRose Laub Coser (autor correspondente)
Ano1985
Volume14
Fascículo3
Páginas370
Data de publicação1985-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoREVIEW
PeriódicoContemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2071352
OpenAlexW1964137142
IdiomaEN

By examining the private correspondence of a circle of German psychoanalyst emigres 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

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