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- Nazi Psychoanalysis V2: Volume II: Crypto-Fetishism
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
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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
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Achtung: A Preface to Nazi Psychoanalysis
- pp. xvii-xxii
- Part Too
- Time to Remember
- pp. 3-4
- Giving Up Which Ghost?
- pp. 5-8
- Keeping Up
- pp. 9-12
- Fetish Goes to War
- pp. 19-21
- Ghost Appearances
- pp. 31-35
- The Heydays of Radarr
- pp. 36-39
- Another Allied Example
- pp. 40-42
- One Four Five Beachwood Drive
- pp. 43-59
- Cyber-Lacan
- pp. 60-62
- French Dressing
- pp. 63-64
- Reopener
- Into Africa
- pp. 82-87
- 1945 Allied-Style
- pp. 90-92
- Taking Apart
- Air Defense Mechanisms
- pp. 95-99
- Bomber Room
- pp. 100-106
- Little Richard
- pp. 107-111
- Emergency Island
- pp. 112-123
- Bloody Freud
- pp. 124-126
- Bion the Pleasure Principle
- pp. 127-130
- The Father’s Daughter
- pp. 131-137
- Breaking Up and Making Up
- pp. 138-144
- Project Group Identification
- pp. 145-146
- In My Side
- pp. 147-149
- Objection Relations
- pp. 150-153
- There Was No Time like the Present
- pp. 154-156
- Kinder-Reich
- pp. 157-168
- Soldierhood
- pp. 169-184
- Let Me Introduce You
- pp. 185-194
- Secret Wartime Report
- pp. 195-197
- Heil Homosexuality
- pp. 198-205
- Schultz Complex
- pp. 206-210
- Council of Marriage
- pp. 211-213
- Mohr Therapy
- pp. 214-218
- Hands-on Reproach
- pp. 219-226
- Colonization
- pp. 233-234
- Taking Part
- Buffoonery
- pp. 237-239
- Back in the U.S. of A.
- pp. 240-242
- Consensual Text
- pp. 247-252
- Getting to Know You
- pp. 253-255
- A Couple of Fetishes
- pp. 260-262
- Parting
- Mummy’s the Word
- pp. 265-271
- Hi Ya Heidegger
- pp. 272-277
- Being in Therapy
- pp. 278-282
- The 30 Percent Reich
- pp. 283-286
- Hey Sullivan Man
- pp. 287-292
- Drama Psycho
- pp. 293-297
- Dichten Denken Tanken
- pp. 298-305
- Only One Thing Missing
- pp. 306-314
- References
- pp. 315-326
- Filmography
- pp. 327-328
- About the Author
- p. 335
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816692262
Related ISBN(s)
9780816636990
MARC Record
OCLC
706024289
Pages
360
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No