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Berlin Psychoanalytic: Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and Beyond
Veronika Fuechtner
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Hardback. Taking us from World War I Berlin to the Third Reich and beyond to 1940s Palestine and 1950s New York - and to the influential work of the Frankfurt School - this book traces the network of artists and psychoanalysts that began in Germany and continued in exile. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
One hundred years after the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute was established, this book recovers the cultural and intellectual history connected to this vibrant organization and places it alongside the London Bloomsbury group, the Paris Surrealist circle, and the Viennese fin-de-siecle as a crucial chapter in the history of modernism. Taking us from World War I Berlin to the Third Reich and beyond to 1940s Palestine and 1950s New York - and to the influential work of the Frankfurt School - Veronika Fuechtner traces the network of artists and psychoanalysts that began in Germany and continued in exile. Connecting movements, forms, and ... Read more
One hundred years after the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute was established, this book recovers the cultural and intellectual history connected to this vibrant organization and places it alongside the London Bloomsbury group, the Paris Surrealist circle, and the Viennese fin-de-siecle as a crucial chapter in the history of modernism. Taking us from World War I Berlin to the Third Reich and beyond to 1940s Palestine and 1950s New York - and to the influential work of the Frankfurt School - Veronika Fuechtner traces the network of artists and psychoanalysts that began in Germany and continued in exile. Connecting movements, forms, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520258372
SKU
V9780520258372
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About Veronika Fuechtner
Veronika Fuechtner is Associate Professor of German Studies at Dartmouth College.
Reviews for Berlin Psychoanalytic: Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and Beyond
"Brilliant, fascinating, and exciting... Essential." Choice "Sobering and instructive... Fuechnter's book brings revolutionary figures back into discourse." Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "Essential reading for all those who seek to understand a crucial group in the history of modernism." Alpata: A Journal Of History "[Fuechtner] is an erudite guide through part of that weird and wonderful world." Metapsychology Online Review