Nazi Psychoanalysis (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Laurence A. Rickels
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Psychology and sociology
- Time of Work: 1918-1945
- Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology, Psychology
- Subjects: Homosexuality or homosexuals, Twentieth century, Psychology or psychologists, 1940’s, World War II, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, Jews or Jewish life, War, Anti-Semitism, World War I, Soldiers, Nazism or Nazis, Germany or German people, Imperialism, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts, Technology, Psychotherapy or psychotherapists
Since Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was a Jew, Nazi Germany formally condemned both his writings and the psychoanalytic movement that he founded. While Freud’s name was generally eliminated from the practice of German psychology, however, Laurence Rickels insists that his influence continued to be pervasive in the psychotherapies and psychological institutes that proliferated during the Nazi period. Late during World War I, Freudian psychoanalysis, albeit in many eclectic versions, had become widely accepted for treating shell-shocked soldiers. By the time the Nazis assumed power in 1933,...
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