Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe

Narrative Assemblages of Self-Analysis, Life Writing, and Fiction
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-57976-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 575 g

Reihe: The History of Psychoanalysis Series

Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe explores the close relationship between psychoanalysis, psycho-medical discourses, literature, and the visual arts of the late 1800s and early 1900s in Central Europe.

Agnieszka Sobolewska addresses the issue of theories and practices of psychoanalysis in Central Europe and the need to undertake interdisciplinary reflection on the specificity of psychoanalytic literary genres and fin-de-siècle psycho-medical discourses. With a focus on the circulation of Freudianism in the territories of present-day Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany, the book considers the creative transformations that psychoanalytic thought underwent in these countries and reflects on the specificity of psychoanalytic literary genres and the pivotal role of lifewriting genres in the psychoanalytic movement. Sobolewska’s work both fills a visible gap in research on the history of psychoanalysis in Central Europe before the outbreak of World War II and offers the first insightful analysis of the role of life writing in the development of psychoanalytic thought.

Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training as well as scholars of the history of psychoanalysis, the history of psychology, literature, cultural anthropology, and modernism.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sobolewska, Agnieszka

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Reading Sigmund Freud’s Correspondence with Wilhelm Fliess: Between A Lover’s Discourse and Self-Analysis

Chapter 2: The Sexological Discourse on Non-Normative Sexuality: Sándor Ferenczi, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, and Magnus Hirschfeld

Chapter 3: The Interpretation of Literary Dreams. Psychoanalysis, Trauma, and Painful Modernity: The Case of Mihály Babits

Chapter 4: The Specters of Psychoanalysis in Interwar Prague: Bohuslav Brouk and Jindrich Štyrský

Chapter 5: The Queer Case of Piotr Odmieniec Wlast. Psychography, Psychoanalysis, and the Origins of Anti-Psychiatric Discourse in Poland

Chapter 6: Freud’s Queer Fellow. Georg Groddeck Between Psychoanalytic Theory and Literary Modernism

Chapter 7: Practicing Friendship. A New Beginning for Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice: Ferenczi Between Georg Groddeck and Elizabeth Severn

Conclusion

Appendix

Über Autor(innen)

Agnieszka Sobolewska, PhD, teaches at the Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw. She specializes in the cultural history of psychoanalysis in Central and Eastern Europe. She is the author of articles and books devoted to life writing and psychoanalysis, the cultural history of psychology in Poland, and German colonial imagination.