In this Book
- Nazi Psychoanalysis V1: Volume I: Only Psychoanalysis Won the War
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
summary
Psychoanalysis was a symptom of everything the Nazis reviled: an intellectual assault on Kultur largely perpetrated by Jews. It was also, as this remarkable work shows, an inescapable symptom of modernity, practiced, transformed, and perpetuated by and within the Nazi regime. A sweeping, magisterial work by one of the most incisive and interesting scholars of modern philosophy, theory, and culture, Nazi Psychoanalysis studies the breadth of this phenomenon in order to clarify and deepen our understanding not only of psychoanalysis but of the twentieth century. Tracing the intersections of psychoanalysis and Nazism, Laurence A. Rickels discovers startling conjunctions and continuities in writers as diverse as Adler and Adorno, Kafka and Goethe, Lacan, H. Rider Haggard, and Heidegger, and in works as different as Der Golem, Civilization and Its Discontents, Frankenstein, Faust, and Brave New World. In a richly allusive style, he writes of psychoanalysis in multifarious incarnations, of the concept and actual history of "insurance," of propaganda in theory and practice, of psychological warfare, Walt Disney, and the Frankfurt School debates—a dizzying tour of the twentieth century that helps us see how the "corridor wars" that arise in the course of theoretical, clinical, social, political, and cultural attempts to describe the human psyche are related to the world wars of the century in an intimate and infinitely complicated manner. Though some have used its appropriation by the Nazis to brand psychoanalysis with the political odium of fascism, Rickels instead finds an uncanny convergence—one that suggests far-reaching possibilities for both psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic criticism. His work, with its enormous intellectual and historical span, makes a persuasive argument that no element of modernity—not psychoanalysis any more than Marxism or deconstruction, cultural revolutions or technological advances-can be adequately understood without a thorough consideration of its Nazi component.
Table of Contents
Download Full Book
- Introduction
- The Californians
- pp. 11-13
- A Couple More Mistakes
- pp. 17-20
- Steady State
- pp. 21-25
- Eat Your Words
- pp. 26-30
- Show of Resistance
- pp. 37-40
- Reintroduction
- The Setting
- pp. 43-44
- But Is It Good for the Jews?
- pp. 45-48
- Family Packaging
- pp. 53-54
- Panic of Influence
- pp. 55-58
- First Part
- Another False Start
- pp. 61-63
- The Cinema of War Neurosis
- pp. 76-86
- In Love and War
- pp. 91-94
- Nietzsche Baby
- pp. 95-98
- Adult Hood
- pp. 99-103
- Jung Hitler
- pp. 104-106
- Going Out for Business
- pp. 107-108
- Between the Wars
- pp. 109-118
- DSM3Rd Reich
- pp. 125-132
- Shot Shocks
- pp. 133-143
- Signal Degeneration
- pp. 154-161
- Simulations
- pp. 162-173
- Nice like Eissler
- pp. 180-184
- Unstoppable
- pp. 185-187
- Good Machine
- pp. 188-190
- Invitation to the Vampire
- pp. 191-199
- Like, You Know, I Don’t Know
- pp. 204-206
- Spiritual Child
- pp. 207-215
- The Hitler Principle
- pp. 224-227
- Elastic Anschluß
- pp. 228-235
- Not So Fast
- pp. 236-239
- Pass the Buck
- pp. 240-242
- In the Family
- pp. 243-245
- He’s Got a Group Mind to ...
- pp. 246-251
- French Frieze
- pp. 252-253
- Doyle Cover
- pp. 254-256
- Mourning Ant Melancholia
- pp. 262-267
- Mickey Marx
- pp. 268-284
- References
- pp. 285-294
- Filmography
- pp. 295-296
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816692255
Related ISBN(s)
9780816636976
MARC Record
OCLC
706024289
Pages
328
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No