The Repression of Psychoanalysis

Download or read book The Repression of Psychoanalysis written by Russell Jacoby and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining the private correspondence of a circle of German psychoanalyst emigrés 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.