The Repression of Psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel and the Political Freudians - Softcover

Jacoby, Russell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226390691 ISBN 13: 9780226390697

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1986

Synopsis

By examining the private correspondence of a circle of German psychoanalyst emigrés 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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About the Author

Russell Jacoby is currently teaching at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing and Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism.

From the Back Cover

This book illuminates the repression by psychoanalysis of its own radical past and its transformation into a narrow medical technique.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226390691
• ISBN 13: 9780226390697
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216