Berlin Psychoanalytic: Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and Beyond

✍ Scribed by Veronika Fuechtner

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 255
• Series: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism; 43
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

One hundred years after the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute was established, this book recovers the cultural and intellectual history connected to this vibrant organization and places it alongside the London Bloomsbury group, the Paris Surrealist circle, and the Viennese fin-de-siècle as a crucial chapter in the history of modernism. Taking us from World War I Berlin to the Third Reich and beyond to 1940s Palestine and 1950s New York—and to the influential work of the Frankfurt School—Veronika Fuechtner traces the network of artists and psychoanalysts that began in Germany and continued in exile. Connecting movements, forms, and themes such as Dada, multi-perspectivity, and the urban experience with the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, she illuminates themes distinctive to the Berlin psychoanalytic context such as war trauma, masculinity and femininity, race and anti-Semitism, and the cultural avant-garde. In particular, she explores the lives and works of Alfred Döblin, Max Eitingon, Georg Groddeck, Karen Horney, Richard Huelsenbeck, Count Hermann von Keyserling, Ernst Simmel, and Arnold Zweig.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Berlin Soulscapes: Alfred Döblin Talks to Ernst Simmel
Chapter 2. Wild Psychoanalysis, Religion, and Race: Georg Groddeck Talks to Count Hermann von Keyserling (among Others)
Chapter 3. The Berlin Psychoanalytic in Palestine: Arnold Zweig Talks to Max Eitingon
Chapter 4. Berlin Dada and Psychoanalysis in New York: Richard Huelsenbeck and Charles Hulbeck Talk to Karen Horney
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index