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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Psyche and Soul |
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Front Cover; Old and Dirty Gods; Contents; Acknowledgments; Permissions; Introduction; Part I; Chapter 1 â#x80;#x9C;So, you have seen the gang nowâ#x80;#x9D; The Wednesday Night Psychological Society; Chapter 2 â#x80;#x9C;Old and dirty godsâ#x80;#x9D; Religion and Freudâ#x80;#x99;s Vienna circle; Part II; Chapter 3 The analyst pastor Oskar Pfister (1873â#x80;#x93;1956); Chapter 4 â#x80;#x9C;Enduring life without illusionâ#x80;#x9D; Theodor Reik (1888â#x80;#x93;1969); Chapter 5 Soul, will, and the search for immortality Otto Rank (1884â#x80;#x93;1939); Chapter 6 Death and resurrection Sabina Spielrein (1885â#x80;#x93;1942); Part III |
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Chapter 7 â#x80;#x9C;Father, donâ#x80;#x99;t you see Iâ#x80;#x99;m burning?â#x80;#x9D; Antisemitism as total contextChapter 8 â#x80;#x9C;In the presence of the burning childrenâ#x80;#x9D; Psychoanalysis, religion, and societyâ#x80;#x94; then and now; Index |
| Summary |
"Freud's collection of antiquities - his "old and dirty gods"--Stood as silent witnesses to the early analysts' paradoxical fascination and hostility toward religion. Pamela Cooper-White argues that antisemitism, reaching back centuries before the Holocaust, and the acute perspective from the margins that it engendered among the first analysts, stands at the very origins of psychoanalytic theory and practice. The core insight of psychoanalytic thought - that there is always more beneath the surface appearances of reality, and that this "more" is among other things affective, memory-laden and psychological- cannot fail to have had something to do with the experiences of the first Jewish analysts in their position of marginality and oppression in Habsburg-Catholic Vienna of the 20th century. The book concludes with some parallels between the decades leading to the Holocaust and the current political situation in the U.S. and Europe, and their implications for psychoanalytic practice today. Covering Pfister, Reik, Rank, and Spielrein as well as Freud, Cooper-White sets out how the first analysts' position as Europe's religious and racial "Other" shaped the development of psychoanalysis, and how these tensions continue to affect psychoanalysis today. Old and Dirty Gods will be of great interest to psychoanalysts as well as religious studies scholars."--Provided by publisher |
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Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
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Pfister, Oskar, 1873-1956.
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Reik, Theodor, 1888-1969.
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Rank, Otto, 1884-1939.
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Spielrein, Sabina
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Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 fast |
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Pfister, Oskar, 1873-1956 fast |
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Rank, Otto, 1884-1939 fast |
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Reik, Theodor, 1888-1969 fast |
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Spielrein, Sabina fast |
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Psychoanalysis and religion.
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Antisemitism -- Psychological aspects
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Antisemitism -- Psychological aspects
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Psychoanalysis and religion
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315212685 |
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1315212684 |
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