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Nazi Psychoanalysis v1
Volume I
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Laurence A. Rickels Foreword by Benjamin Bennett
In volume I, Only Psychoanalysis Won the War , Rickels draws from countless literary, political, and scientific artifacts to show the emergence of the concept of psychological warfare beginning in World War I.
Rickels provides an idiosyncratic and illuminating new look at the meaning of psychoanalysis in the Third Reich. Eschewing straightforward narrative for a prismatic account of the twists and turns of psychoanalysts who collaborated to survive, he offers a gripping history of the phenomenon of what made the Nazis think like Nazis.
Sander L. Gilman, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Cultural Criticism , History , Theory and Philosophy , Psychoanalytic Theory
Psychoanalysis was a symptom of everything the Nazis reviled: an intellectual assault on Kultur largely perpetrated by Jews. It was also, as this remarkable work shows, an inescapable symptom of modernity, practiced, transformed, and perpetuated by and within the Nazi regime. A sweeping, magisterial work by one of the most incisive and interesting scholars of modern philosophy, theory, and culture, Nazi Psychoanalysis studies the breadth of this phenomenon in order to clarify and deepen our understanding not only of psychoanalysis but of the twentieth century.
Tracing the intersections of psychoanalysis and Nazism, Laurence A. Rickels discovers startling conjunctions and continuities in writers as diverse as Adler and Adorno, Kafka and Goethe, Lacan, H. Rider Haggard, and Heidegger, and in works as different as Der Golem , Civilization and Its Discontents , Frankenstein , Faust , and Brave New World . In a richly allusive style, he writes of psychoanalysis in multifarious incarnations, of the concept and actual history of "insurance," of propaganda in theory and practice, of psychological warfare, Walt Disney, and the Frankfurt School debates—a dizzying tour of the twentieth century that helps us see how the "corridor wars" that arise in the course of theoretical, clinical, social, political, and cultural attempts to describe the human psyche are related to the world wars of the century in an intimate and infinitely complicated manner.
Though some have used its appropriation by the Nazis to brand psychoanalysis with the political odium of fascism, Rickels instead finds an uncanny convergence—one that suggests far-reaching possibilities for both psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic criticism. His work, with its enormous intellectual and historical span, makes a persuasive argument that no element of modernity—not psychoanalysis any more than Marxism or deconstruction, cultural revolutions or technological advances-can be adequately understood without a thorough consideration of its Nazi component.
$26.00 paper ISBN 978-0-8166-3697-6 $72.00 cloth ISBN 978-0-8166-3696-9 328 pages, 44 b&w photos, 5 7/8 x 9, 2002
Laurence A. Rickels is professor of German and comparative literature at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His books include The Vampire Lectures (1999), The Case of California (2001), and the edited volume Acting Out in Groups (1999), all published by Minnesota.
This is a challenging work, alternately fascinating and infuriating, and it resists being summarized or distilled into one or several essential contributions. Compelling and persuasive. He brilliantly traces discourses on the relationship between pilots and their aircraft, spinning out all kinds of associations around men and machines, treating psychoanalysis as a kind of priviledged discourse on the ‘ongoing technologization of our bodies’ that ran through the twentieth century.
Times Literary Supplement
Rickels provides an idiosyncratic and illuminating new look at the meaning of psychoanalysis in the Third Reich. Eschewing straightforward narrative for a prismatic account of the twists and turns of psychoanalysts who collaborated to survive, he offers a gripping history of the phenomenon of what made the Nazis think like Nazis.
Sander L. Gilman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Rickels’s writing is marvelously witty, ironic, erudite, and original . . . unlike some critics who would read the Nazi appropriation of psychoanalysis as a sign of the politically odious character of psychoanalysis itself, Rickels reads the convergence as ‘uncanny’ and offers, in his very reading, another possibility for psychoanalytic criticism besides the one that forms the topic of this text.
Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley
Rickels has unearthed a mass of fascinating information about the underground life of psychoanalysis during the Nazi period. His book will constitute a provocative contribution both to psychoanalysis and to studies of Nazi Germany.
Fredric R. Jameson, Duke University
CONTENTS
Foreword BENJAMINBENNETT Achtung A PREFACE TO NAZI PSYCHOANALYSIS
Introduction
1994 The Californians 1985 A Couple More Mistakes Steady State Eat Your Words Memoirs Show of Resistance Reintroduction The Setting But Is It Good for the Jews? Covered! Family Packaging Panic of Influence First Part Another False Start Faust, Freud, and the Missing Entries—into War The Cinema of War Neurosis Suckarama In Love and War Nietzsche Baby Adult Hood Jung Hitler Going Out for Business Between the Wars Policy DSM3Rd Reich Shot Shocks Cry Me Signal Degeneration Simulations 1915 Nice like Eissler Unstoppable Good Machine Invitation to the Vampire 1905/1909 Like, You Know, I Don’t Know Spiritual Child We Won! The Hitler Principle Elastic Anschluß Not So Fast Pass the Buck In the Family He’s Got a Group Mind to. . . French Frieze Doyle Cover Trot Out Mourning Ant Melancholia Mickey Marx
References Filmography
Index
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In volume I, Only Psychoanalysis Won the War , Rickels draws from countless literary, political, and scientific artifacts to show the emergence of the concept of psychological warfare beginning in World War I. Rickels provides an idiosyncratic and illuminating new look at the meaning of psychoanalysis in the Third Reich. Eschewing straightforward narrative for a prismatic account of the twists and turns of psychoanalysts who collaborated to survive, he offers a gripping history of the phenomenon of what made the Nazis think like Nazis. Sander L. Gilman, University of Illinois at Chicago. Tags. Cultural Criticism , History , Theory and Philosophy , Psychoanalytic Theory. Psychoanalysis was a symptom of everything the Nazis reviled: an intellectual assault on Kultur largely perpetrated by Jews. It was also, as this remarkable work shows, an inescapable symptom of modernity, practiced, transformed, and perpetuated by and within the Nazi regime. A sweeping, magisterial work by one of the most incisive and interesting scholars of modern philosophy, theory, and culture, Nazi Psychoanalysis studies the breadth of this phenomenon in order to clarify and deepen our understanding not only of psychoanalysis but of the twentieth century. Tracing the intersections of psychoanalysis and Nazism, Laurence A. Rickels discovers startling conjunctions and continuities in writers as diverse as Adler and Adorno, Kafka and Goethe, Lacan, H. Rider Haggard, and Heidegger, and in works as different as Der Golem , Civilization and Its Discontents , Frankenstein , Faust , and Brave New World . In a richly allusive style, he writes of psychoanalysis in multifarious incarnations, of the concept and actual history of "insurance," of propaganda in theory and practice, of psychological warfare, Walt Disney, and the Frankfurt School debates—a dizzying tour of the twentieth century that helps us see how the "corridor wars" that arise in the course of theoretical, clinical, social, political, and cultural attempts to describe the human psyche are related to the world wars of the century in an intimate and infinitely complicated manner. Though some have used its appropriation by the Nazis to brand psychoanalysis with the political odium of fascism, Rickels instead finds an uncanny convergence—one that suggests far-reaching possibilities for both psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic criticism. His work, with its enormous intellectual and historical span, makes a persuasive argument that no element of modernity—not psychoanalysis any more than Marxism or deconstruction, cultural revolutions or technological advances-can be adequately understood without a thorough consideration of its Nazi component. $26.00 paper ISBN 978-0-8166-3697-6 $72.00 cloth ISBN 978-0-8166-3696-9 328 pages, 44 b&w photos, 5 7/8 x 9, 2002. Laurence A. Rickels is professor of German and comparative literature at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His books include The Vampire Lectures (1999), The Case of California (2001), and the edited volume Acting Out in Groups (1999), all published by Minnesota. This is a challenging work, alternately fascinating and infuriating, and it resists being summarized or distilled into one or several essential contributions. Compelling and persuasive. He brilliantly traces discourses on the relationship between pilots and their aircraft, spinning out all kinds of associations around men and machines, treating psychoanalysis as a kind of priviledged discourse on the ‘ongoing technologization of our bodies’ that ran through the twentieth century. Times Literary Supplement. Rickels provides an idiosyncratic and illuminating new look at the meaning of psychoanalysis in the Third Reich. Eschewing straightforward narrative for a prismatic account of the twists and turns of psychoanalysts who collaborated to survive, he offers a gripping history of the phenomenon of what made the Nazis think like Nazis. Sander L. Gilman, University of Illinois at Chicago. Rickels’s writing is marvelously witty, ironic, erudite, and original . . . unlike some critics who would read the Nazi appropriation of psychoanalysis as a sign of the politically odious character of psychoanalysis itself, Rickels reads the convergence as ‘uncanny’ and offers, in his very reading, another possibility for psychoanalytic criticism besides the one that forms the topic of this text. Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley. Rickels has unearthed a mass of fascinating information about the underground life of psychoanalysis during the Nazi period. His book will constitute a provocative contribution both to psychoanalysis and to studies of Nazi Germany. Fredric R. Jameson, Duke University. CONTENTS. Foreword BENJAMINBENNETT Achtung A PREFACE TO NAZI PSYCHOANALYSIS. Introduction. 1994 The Californians 1985 A Couple More Mistakes Steady State Eat Your Words Memoirs Show of Resistance Reintroduction The Setting But Is It Good for the Jews? Covered! Family Packaging Panic of Influence First Part Another False Start Faust, Freud, and the Missing Entries—into War The Cinema of War Neurosis Suckarama In Love and War Nietzsche Baby Adult Hood Jung Hitler Going Out for Business Between the Wars Policy DSM3Rd Reich Shot Shocks Cry Me Signal Degeneration Simulations 1915 Nice like Eissler Unstoppable Good Machine Invitation to the Vampire 1905/1909 Like, You Know, I Don’t Know Spiritual Child We Won! The Hitler Principle Elastic Anschluß Not So Fast Pass the Buck In the Family He’s Got a Group Mind to. . . French Frieze Doyle Cover Trot Out Mourning Ant Melancholia Mickey Marx. References Filmography. Index. Purchase. Paperback $26.00. Paperback $26.00. About E-books. About This Book. Overview. Full Details. Author Bio. Reviews. Table of Contents. Related Publications. The Vampire Lectures. Nazi Psychoanalysis v3. Volume III. Unwilling Germans? The Goldhagen Debate. The Case of California. Ulrike Ottinger. The Autobiography of Art Cinema. Nazi Psychoanalysis v2. Volume II. I Think I Am. Philip K. Dick. Aberrations of Mourning. Related News & Events. Coming soon. Disciplines. American Studies. Anthropology. Architecture and Design. Art and Performance. Cultural Criticism. Economics and Business. Education and Law. Environment. Film and Media. Geography. History. Literature. Minnesota and the Upper Midwest. Native American and Indigenous Studies. Political Science. Psychology. Sociology. Theory and Philosophy. © 2011-2016 University of Minnesota Press | Privacy Policy | The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.