Search Results for psychoanalysis

...Dagmar Herzog Alexander Mitscherlich succeeded in his life project of returning psychoanalysis to post-Nazi central Europe—and securing for it far greater cultural prestige than it ever had in Sigmund Freud's own day—by advancing an idiosyncratic version of psychoanalysis as a secular moral...

...-Aristotelian premises of nonspontaneity and creativity. Curiosity according to Psychoanalysis: Blumenberg, Freud, and the Destiny of an Affect K. Daniel Cho Nothing was more important for the coming into being of a full-blown modern age than a robust...

...Urs Stäheli This essay traces the figure of the leader in different approaches of crowd psychology (Gustave Le Bon and Gabriel Tarde) and psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud). It argues that the central role of the leader to the crowd, as Freud's group psychology emphasizes, is not simply given; rather...

..., as a synthesis of Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx, the article attempts to reveal an alternative constellation of Soviet biomechanics and reactionary anticapitalist Lebensphilosophie , united in their shared rejection of Freudian psychoanalysis. Copyright © 2018 by New German Critique, Inc. 2018 Walter...

... 15 , no. 1 ( 1983 ): 55 – 70 . Adorno Theodor W. “ Resignation .” In Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords , translated by Pickford Henry , 289 – 93 . New York : Columbia University Press , 2005 . Adorno Theodor W. “ Revisionist Psychoanalysis ,” translated...

... of psychoanalysis. In Berlin, Fromm was acquainted with Paul Federn, Siegfried Bernfeld, and Wilhelm Reich, the leading proponents of the Marx-Freud synthesis at the time, with whom he shared ideas on the use of psychoanalysis for the socialist movement. While studying in Berlin, Fromm was also involved in setting...

... Theorists, Fromm’s work is not given the attention we might expect of such a key intellectual innovator. Though major studies of the relationship between the Frankfurt School and psychoanalysis acknowledge his important role in introducing psychological theories to his colleagues, in the end they still...

... of the academic chair he had occupied. It was the chair for psychoanalysis at Frankfurt’s Goethe University, a brainchild of the Institute for Social Research. The university did intend to fill the opening, but the position’s new description omitted psychoanalysis. Press editors had a field day with headlines...

... : University of California Press . Forrester John . 2000 . Truth Games: Lies, Money, and Psychoanalysis . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Freud Sigmund . 1939 . Moses and Monotheism , translated by Jones Katherine . New York : Knopf. Gehlen Arnold . 1940...

... alight, I explained how Arthur Schopenhauer’s influence on Friedrich Nietzsche, the Frankfurt School, and psychoanalysis made it possible to supplant the politics of form with an ethics of aesthetics and critical relation. I, perhaps, said something along these lines. To be honest, the memory of what I...

... was to show how an object relations view of psychoanalysis could be devel- oped into an intersubjective theory that was more appropriate to understand- ing the alienation of recognition that underpins instrumental culture. As I struggled over the audacity of taking on the whole of critical theory, I gave...

... as the legal subject, the object-ego as the legal object.18 This passage from a legal text on image rights, published in 1903, seems to anticipate Lacanian psychoanalysis. But in this essay I would like to juxta- pose Kohlerʼs treatise to such fi lms as Der Andere and Der Student von Prag...

...-Century Theory (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011), 50–52. 10. On Bhabha’s criticism of Said for missing the significance of psychoanalysis in colonial “ambivalence,” and on psychoanalysis’s importance for Bhabha, see Robert J. C. Young, White Mythologies (New York: Routledge...

... generations of idealizing readings have ignored. This entails no reduction of the literary to the empirical, as if Walser were mere fodder for a case history, but points to the literary dimension of so-called experience, one of the most fundamental insights of psychoanalysis. Walser’s texts in turn grasp...

... psychoanalysis National Socialism References Adorno Theodor W. 1939 . “Fragmente über Wagner.” Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 8 , no. 2 : 1 – 49 . ———. 1970–86 . Gesammelte Schriften , edited by Tiedemann Rolf . 20 vols . Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp . ———. 2003...

... Frankfurt. 66. See George S. Viereck, “Freud’s First Interview on Psychoanalysis,” New York American, August 19, 1923. His erstwhile protégé Carl Jung remembered in 1909 that he and Freud had “spent several hours walking in Central Park and talked at length about the sociological problems of psy...

... Impression of Gradiva.” 39. Derrida, Archive Fever , 92. 40. Petzold describes Johnny’s feverish archival work of reconstruction and destruction in terms of psychoanalysis: “The thing that I’m interested in is Pygmalion : a man is creating a woman—and you know from Sigmund Freud...

.... It is through the camera that we first discover the optical unconscious, just as we discover the instinctual unconscious through psychoanalysis. (WA, 266) Benjamin’s essay on the age of technological reproducibility can be thought of as an effort to describe, if not quite to define, a transformation...

... discovery of the ego ideal (das Ichideal), a new developmental phase of the “I” and the libido.8 The book’s importance would thus be the theoretical clarification of this control- ling agency, later rephrased as the superego. In the history of psychoanalysis, Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse thus...

... from man by psy- chology and from the world by sociology, no longer wanting to reside in the heavens, has handed over the throne of justice to dialectical materialism and the seat of mercy to psychoanalysis and has withdrawn to some hidden place and does not want to disclose Himself.”15 Adorno...