The Repression of Psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel and the Political Freudians

By Russell Jacoby

Book Overview

By examining the private correspondence of a circle of German psychoanalyst emigr s that included Otto Fenichel, Annie Reich, and Edith Jacobson, Russell Jacoby recaptures the radical zeal of classical analysis and the efforts of the Fenichel group to preserve psychoanalysis as a social and political theory, open to a broad range of intellectuals regardless of their medical background. In tracing this effort, he illuminates the repression by psychoanalysis of its own radical past and its transformation into a narrow medical technique. This book is of critical interest to the general reader as well as to psychoanalytic historians, theorists, and therapists.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226390691
• ISBN13: 9780226390697
• Release Date: July 1986
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"