Psychoanalysis in its Cultural Context

Edited by Edward Timms and Ritchie Robertson

Austrian Studies 3

Edinburgh University Press

17 September 1992  •  220pp

ISBN: 978-0-748603-59-6 (hardback) (out of print)

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Suggesting that Freud's version of the history of psychoanalysis has triumphed by default, this book presents what aims to be a more balanced view, taking account of the ideas of his dissenting followers and forgotten adversaries. Articles by a number of contributors are included in this volume addressing subjects such as the late 19th-century debate about racial identity. It shows how biological concepts of race became transformed into psychological categories. For Freud and his fellow analysts, being "Jewish" meant participating in a shared set of intellectual and emotional attitudes. The problem for psychoanalysts, as for ethnopsychologists like Lazarus and Steinthal, was how to separate the psyche from the body. The problem was compounded by turn-of-the century debates which associated Jewishness with femininity - with the female body. Freud never entirely resolved the difficulties arising from this rhetoric of race, which had a distorting effect on his conceptions of gender. Attitudes towards Jewishness and femininity are explored from another angle in a commentary, drawn from a small number of Freud's letters to his fiancee, which reconstructs some of the patterns underlying Freud's choice of wife. Further articles deal with the reactions of Viennese feminists during Freud's lifetime; Otto Rank; the divergent responses of literary authors to psychoanalysis; and further exploration of the cultural context of psychoanalysis. Each volume of "Austrian Studies" is designed to make the results of specialist research more accessible through a range of book reviews, as well as to offer a close focus on one specific field.

Contents:

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The Historiography of Psychoanalysis
Paul Roazen

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Freud, Race and Gender
Sander L. Gilman

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39

Object-Choice: Fragment of a Freud Biography
Klaus Theweleit

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49

The Case of Otto Gross: Jung, Stekel and the Pathologization of Protest
Martin Stanton

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57

From the Memoirs of a Freudian (edited by Edward Timms)
Fritz Wittels

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Psychoanalysis and Feminism: An Ambivalent Alliance. Viennese Feminist Responses to Freud, 1900-30
Harriet Anderson

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81

Otto Rank and the Doppelgänger
Andrew Webber

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Freud, Musil and Gestalt Psychology
Hannah Hickman

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109

Between Freud and Nietzsche: Canetti's Crowds and Power
Ritchie Robertson

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Review Articles
127

Current Freud Research
Sander L. Gilman

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132

Freud and Antiquities
S. R. F. Price

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138

The Sciences in Exile
J. M. Ritchie

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145

The Poet as Anthropologist: On the Aphorisms of Franz Baermann Steiner
Jeremy Adler

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161

Review of Brian Keith-Smith, Bristol Austrian Studies
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

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161

Review of John Komlos, Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy
Charles Ingrao

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163

Review of Helmut Bachmeier, Franz Grillparzer
Bruce Thompson

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164

Review of Jürgen Hein, Johann Nestroy
Mike Rogers

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164

Review of Gerald Stieg and Jean-Marie Valentin, Johann Nestroy 1801-1862: Vision du monde et écriture dramatique
Mike Rogers

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166

Review of Stefan H. Kaszynski, Galizien - eine literarische Heimat
Ritchie Robertson

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168

Review of Jürgen Serke, Böhmische Dorfer: Wanderungen durch eine verlassene literarische Landschaft
Eda Sagarra

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169

Review of Akos Moravanszky, Die Architektur der Donaumonarchie 1867 bis 1918
Iain Boyd Whyte

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171

Review of Steven Bela Vardy and Agnes Huszar Vardy, The Austro-Hungarian Mind
Michael Hurst

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172

Review of Robert Pynsent, Decadence and Innovation: Austro-Hungarian Life and Art at the Turn of the Century
Alfred Thomas

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173

Review of Jacques Le Rider, Modernite viennoise et crises de Tidentite
Andrew Webber

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175

Review of Celia Bertin, La Femme a Vienne au temps de Freud
Harriet Anderson

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176

Review of Hannah S. Decker, Freud, Dora, and Vienna 1900
Leo A. Lensing

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179

Review of Gail Finney, Women in Modern Drama: Freud, Feminism and European Theater at the Turn of the Century
Elizabeth Boa

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181

Review of Bruce Thompson, Schnitzler's Vienna: Image of a Society
Peter Skrine

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181

Review of Adrian Clive Roberts, Arthur Schnitzler and Politics
Peter Skrine

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Review of Marc A. Weiner, Arthur Schnitzler and the Crisis of Musical Culture
Peter Skrine

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183

Review of Hans-Albrecht Koch, Hugo von Hofmannsthal
W. E. Yates

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183

Review of Benjamin Bennett, Hugo von Hofmannsthal: The Theatres of Consciousness
W. E. Yates

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185

Review of Andrew Webber, Sexuality and the Sense of Self in the Works of Georg Trakl and Robert Musil
Alan Bance

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187

Review of Stefan H. Kaszynski and Sigurd Paul Scheichl, Karl Kraus - Asthetik und Kritik
Gilbert J. Carr

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187

Review of Gilbert Krebs and Gerald Stieg, Karl Kraus et son temps
Gilbert J. Carr

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187

Review of Joseph P. Strelka, Karl Kraus: Diener der Sprache, Meister des Ethos
Gilbert J. Carr

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190

Review of Malcolm Pasley et al, Franz Kafka, Tagebucher and Der Proceß
Mark Anderson

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Review of Hartmut Steinecke and Joseph Strelka, Romanstruktur und Menschenrecht bei Hermann Broch
James Hardin

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193

Review of Klaus Amann and Helmut Grote, Die 'Wiener Bibliothek' Hermann Brochs
James Hardin

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195

Review of David Turner, Moral Values and the Human Zoo: the Novellen of Stefan Zweig
Harry Zohn

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Review of Volker Henze, Judischer Kulturpessimismus und das Bild des Alten Osterreich im Werk Stefan Zweigs und Joseph Roths
Harry Zohn

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197

Review of Alan Bance and Ian Huish, Odon von Horvath Fifty Years On: Horvath Symposium, London 1988
David Phillips

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200

Review of Douglas Jarman, The Berg Companion
Silvina Milstein

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202

Review of Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler, Martin Huber, Michael Huter, Wittgenstein
Andrew Barker

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203

Review of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Anna Freud
Naomi Segal

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204

Review of Donald G. Daviau, Major Figures of Modern Austrian Literature
David Midgley

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Bibliography entry:

Timms, Edward, and Ritchie Robertson (eds), Psychoanalysis in its Cultural Context (= Austrian Studies, 3 (1992))

First footnote reference: 35 Psychoanalysis in its Cultural Context, ed. by Edward Timms and Ritchie Robertson (= Austrian Studies, 3 (1992)), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Timms and Robertson, p. 47.

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Bibliography entry:

Timms, Edward, and Ritchie Robertson (eds). 1992. Psychoanalysis in its Cultural Context (= Austrian Studies, 3)

Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Timms and Robertson 1992: 21).

Example footnote reference: 35 Timms and Robertson 1992: 21.

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