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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789930503321

Titolo

After Freud left [[electronic resource] ] : a century of psychoanalysis in America / / edited by John Burnham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-29960-6

9786613554512

0-226-08139-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BurnhamJohn C <1929-2017.> (John Chynoweth)

Disciplina

616.89/17

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis - United States - History

Psychiatry - United States - History - 20th century

Psychoanalysts - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Introduction to Part I: Transnationalizing -- ONE. Psychotherapy, 1909: Notes on a Vintage -- TWO. Clark Revisited: Reappraising Freud in America -- THREE. "A Fat Wad of Dirty Pieces of Paper": Freud on America, Freud in America, Freud and America -- FOUR. Mitteleuropa on the Hudson: On the Struggle for American Psychoanalysis after the Anschluß -- FIVE. Another Dimension of the Émigré Experience: From Central Europe to the United States via Turkey -- Introduction to Part II: A Shift in Perspective -- SIX. Freud and the Vicissitudes of Modernism in the United States, 1940-1980 -- SEVEN. Freud, Anxiety, and the Cold War -- EIGHT. Heinz Kohut's Americanization of Freud -- NINE. The Walking Man and the Talking Cure -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Chronological Guide to Events -- List of Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

From August 29 to September 21, 1909, Sigmund Freud visited the United States, where he gave five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. This volume brings together a stunning gallery of leading historians of psychoanalysis and of American culture to consider the broad history of psychoanalysis in America and to reflect on what has happened to Freud's legacy in the United States in



the century since his visit. There has been a flood of recent scholarship on Freud's life and on the European and world history of psychoanalysis, but historians have produced relatively little on the proliferation of psychoanalytic thinking in the United States, where Freud's work had monumental intellectual and social impact. The essays in After Freud Left provide readers with insights and perspectives to help them understand the uniqueness of Americans' psychoanalytic thinking, as well as the forms in which the legacy of Freud remains active in the United States in the twenty-first century. After Freud Left will be essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century American history, general intellectual and cultural history, and psychology and psychiatry.