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 themes such as Dada, multi-perspectivity, and the urban experience with the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, she illuminates themes distinctive to the Berlin psychoanalytic context such as war trauma, masculinity and femininity, race and anti-Semitism, and the cultural avant-garde. In particular, she explores the lives and works of Alfred Doblin, Max Eitingon, Georg Groddeck, Karen Horney, Richard Huelsenbeck, Count Hermann von Keyserling, Ernst Simmel, and Arnold Zweig.

About the Author
Veronika Fuechtner is Associate Professor of German Studies at Dartmouth College.

Reviews
"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



Book Information
ISBN 9780520258372
Author Veronika Fuechtner
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint University of California Press
Publisher University of California Press
Weight(grams) 499g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 23mm