THE HISTORIAN OF THE FREUD MUSEUM: LYDIA MARINELLI

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Intellectual Work ◽  
History Of Psychoanalysis ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Lecture Series ◽  
History Of

The Freud Museum in Vienna is certainly one of the best-known tourist attractions of Europe, drawing crowds of visitors every year. Over the past 15 years, it has also acquired a reputation for being the site of some of the most inventive intellectual work in the history of psychoanalysis. A set of highly original exhibitions, film and lecture series, and conferences all set a new tone that was unheard of in Vienna, a city where Sigmund Freud had been turned, as had so many other of the great figures of Austria's glorious past, into a piece of merchandise. It took the scholarly world and the larger public some time to realize that this fresh and courageous approach was the work of a young historian who was not even Viennese, but had arrived from the Eastern part of the Tyrol.

Crimean Antiquities Seen through the Eyes of West-European Travelers of the Late 18th – Early 19th centuries

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-33
Author(s):  
Никита Храпунов ◽  
Nikita Khrapunov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Life Circumstances ◽  
Intellectual Level ◽  
West European

The article examines various aspects of descriptions of the past and archeological sites of Crimea prepared by travelers that visited the peninsula in the first decades after its incorporation into Russia in 1783. It demonstrates that Crimea, which had previously been quite unknown to the European audience, became a popular place for educational trips – largely because of the unique concentration of the cultural heritage on its area. The analysis of the travelers’ notes showed that the foreigners had been attracted by monuments associated with the Ancient Greece and Rome, Scythians, Sarmatians and Tauridians, Crimean Goths and Byzantines, medieval Genovese colonies, the Golden Horde and the Crimean Khanate. The vogue of Crimea was boosted by the fashion for antiquity and fascination of the Europeans with the mysterious and romantic Islamic East. The study unveils that the travelers created an extensive, though rather mixed set of sources, whose authors had different intellectual level and varying interests, found themselves in different life circumstances, pursued various objectives and worked in a range of genres. The study of the travel essays helped to reveal the unknown pages in the history of archeological studies of Crimea, specifically, the history of the search for the ancient Chersonese or discovery of the capital of the late Scythians. The paper shows the importance of the travelers’ sketches for the modern architectural and archeological research and restoration projects. It is detected that the travelers turned individual monuments into tourist attractions, created and communicated stereotypes and legends. It is demonstrated that some foreigners applied to the history and archeology of Crimea to back up their economic and political projects.

Sigmund Freud and the History of Anna O. Reopening A Closed Case by Richard A. Skues (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006); reviewed by Albrecht Hirschmüller

2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-134
Author(s):  
ALBRECHT HIRSCHMULLER
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Case History ◽  
Medical Psychology ◽  
History Of Psychoanalysis ◽  
Productive Life ◽  
Affective Content ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time

‘Anna O.’, Breuer's patient in the Studies in Hysteria, the ‘primal work of psychoanalysis’ (Grubrich-Simitis), features to this day in every history of psychoanalysis and every introductory seminar to medical psychology. This case history revealed for the first time how hysterical symptoms in speech could be traced back to their source and eliminated by bringing their unconscious affective content to consciousness and ‘abreacting’ it. Since Jones it has been known that the published case history left out the fact that the patient was not completely cured by Breuer's treatment and was treated for several more years in sanatoria, and that nevertheless in later years she led a full and productive life as a Jewish social worker. In 1972 Ellenberger revealed details of her life after Breuer's treatment and of a stay in Binswanger's clinic, and her case history for 1882 in Kreuzlingen was published in my dissertation in 1978.

scholarly journals The Forgotten Obvious: Breathing in Psychoanalysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 369-390
Author(s):  
Oriana Walker ◽  
Arthur Rose
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
The Body ◽  
History Of Psychoanalysis ◽  
The Us ◽  
Wilhelm Reich ◽  
History Of

AbstractThis essay traces the role of breathing in the literature and history of psychoanalysis from Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud through Otto Fenichel and Wilhelm Reich. It uncovers interesting discontinuities in the significance granted to breathing as the psychoanalytic tradition develops. These observations of the breath shed new light on major theoretical divisions of psychoanalysis from its founding through its arrival in the US with the émigré analysts. This history offers views both into the changing imagination of the breath itself and into the role of the body in an evolving psychoanalytic practice more generally.

scholarly journals Dr. Wonderful and the big bad asylum: Dissecting simplicty in The Snake Pit

SURG Journal ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-23
Author(s):  
Adam Ruebsaat Trott
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
The Novel ◽  
History Of Psychoanalysis ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
History Of

On the surface, Anatole Livak’s The Snake Pit (1974) contains little more than a socially conservative overuse of pseudo-Freudianism. The film has been rightfully criticized for its departure from the novel on which it was based, specifically in its more traditional approach to Virginia, its female protagonist. To simply dismiss The Snake Pit for these reasons, however, would not do justice to the film’s importance within the history of cinema and psychiatry. This article will analyze the historical and cinematic factors that influenced Litvak’s The Snake Pit, a film worthy of both praise for its social impact and blame for its failure to go far enough. Keywords: Anatole Livak; cinema; history of psychoanalysis; Sigmund Freud; Hollywood

In analisi con Freud nel 1921: diario di una paziente

2009 ◽  
pp. 151-166
Author(s):  
Anna Koellreuter
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
History Of Psychoanalysis ◽  
Biographical Data ◽  
History Of

- The author, who is a psychoanalyst, recounts how she discovered the diary in which her grandmother, who was a psychiatrist, described her four-month analysis with Sigmund Freud in Vienna in 1921. Some biographical data about the patient are presented, and five extracts of the diary are reported. This diary, although at irregular intervals, reports the detailed interventions made by Freud and the patient in the course of the analysis. Finally, conclusions on how Freud worked with patients at that period, particularly insofar as transference is concerned, are drawn. (The complete diary, with comments by various authors, is published in German in the book edited by Anna Koellreuter "Wie benimmt sich der Prof. Freud eigentlich?": Ein neu entdecktes Tagebuch von 1921 historisch und analytisch kommentiert. Giessen: Psychosozial, 2009).KEY WORDS: Sigmund Freud's technique, transference, interpretation, history of psychoanalysis, diary of a psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud and Alejandro Lipschütz

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvana Vetö ◽  
Marcelo Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
History Of Psychoanalysis ◽  
Sándor Ferenczi ◽  
Peripheral Country ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This article deals with the relationship between the creator of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, and the Latvian-born Chilean professor of physiology – and endocrinologist and anthropologist – Alejandro (or Alexander) Lipschütz. Up till now, the historiography of psychoanalysis in Chile has ignored the existence of this relationship, that is to say, the fact that there exists an interesting exchange of correspondence as well as references to Lipschütz in some important works published by Freud and in Freud’s correspondence with the Hungarian psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi. There are also references to works on psychoanalysis carried out by Lipschütz in Chile. The Freud–Lipschütz relationship allows us to examine two interesting topics in contemporary historiographical approaches to psychoanalysis. First, it permits us to reflect on the connections that Freud and Ferenczi sought to establish between psychoanalysis and biology (endocrinology in particular) as a strategy to address criticism of the scientific foundations of psychoanalysis and, therefore, to help legitimize psychoanalysis in the field of science. Second, the relationship between Freud, working in a culturally influential city such as Vienna, and Lipschütz, working in a ‘peripheral’ country such as Chile, paves the way to reflect on the consequences of a history of psychoanalysis written from the perspective of the ‘margins’. This is a history that focuses not on regions where early industrialization and modernization processes, along with an important academic and scientific tradition, help explain the interest in and reception of psychoanalysis, but on regions where different sets of conditions have to be examined to explain appropriation and dissemination processes.

An Occupational Neurosis: A Psychoanalytic Case History of a Rabbi

AJS Review ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Balakirsky Katz
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Case History ◽  
Experimental Treatment ◽  
Jewish Studies ◽  
Early Years ◽  
History Of Psychoanalysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

In consultation with Sigmund Freud, the Viennese psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel (1868–1940) treated the first Jewish cleric known to undergo analysis, in 1903. According to the case history, published in 1908, a forty-two-year-old rabbi suffered from aBerufsneurose, an occupational neurosis associated with the pressures of his career. Stekel's case history forms an indelible portrait of a religious patient who submitted himself to the highly experimental treatment of psychoanalysis in the early years of the discipline. However, scholars never integrated the rabbi's case into the social history of psychoanalysis, more as a consequence of Freud's professional disparagement of Stekel than of the case history's original reception. Psychoanalytic historiography has largely dismissed Stekel's legacy, resulting in a lack of serious scholarly consideration of his prodigious publications compared to the attention paid to the work of some of Freud's other disciples. Stekel's most recent biographers, however, credit him as the “unsung populariser of psychoanalysis,” and claim that he is due for reconsideration. But in his published case history of the rabbi, Stekel also warrants introduction to the field of Jewish studies, not only because of the literary treatment of the rabbinical profession by a secular Jewish psychoanalyst, but also because the rabbi incorporated aspects of that experience into his own intellectual framework after treatment.

AMERICANIZING PSYCHOANALYSIS

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 607-617
Author(s):  
MITCHELL G. ASH
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
History Of Psychoanalysis ◽  
General Theme ◽  
The Past ◽  
Narrow Focus ◽  
Psychoanalytic Discourse ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

The general theme that unites the works to be discussed here is the history of psychoanalysis in America over the past hundred years, particularly during the heyday of its public impact from the 1950s through the 1970s. The broad outlines of this story have been well known for some time. Interesting about the volumes discussed here is the step that each book takes in its own way beyond a narrow focus on Freud and his followers or the institutional history of the psychoanalytic profession to examinations of so-called neo-Freudianism and of the entry of psychoanalytic discourse into American middle- and highbrow popular culture. The question whether, how, or to what extent psychoanalysis became “Americanized” in the course of all this is addressed explicitly in the volume by Elizabeth Lunbeck, and implicitly in the other books under review. In the following I will discuss each volume in turn, pointing to linkages among them along the way.

The Search for the Lost Father-Figure in Spanish American History: A Freudian View

1978 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 532-536
Author(s):  
Marvin Goldwert
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
American History ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
Father Figure ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Historical Thought

Sigmund Freud was more than the father of psychoanalysis; he was also one of the great classical philosophers of history. In Freud's historical thought, we have the framework for an analysis of the past which parallels the formation of neuroses in the life history of the individual. Like psychological man, historical man is the victim of events (trauma) from the past. Etched on the brain of historical man, are memories which endure through time, become part of the “archaic heritage,” and are transmitted from one generation to another. Then, like the “return of the repressed” in neurotic individuals, societies feel the afflictions of the past, which return to haunt them. That Freud stressed the killing of the primeval father by his jealous sons, an event of dubious historical veracity, should not obscure the value of his historical framework. In Freudian thought, the psychic stages of the individual unfold in the collective societies of history.

scholarly journals THE NEW HISTORY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: TOWARDS A RICHER AND MORE NUANCED NARRATIVE

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-231
Author(s):  
MICHAL SHAPIRA
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of Psychoanalysis ◽  
Personal Problems ◽  
Everyday Language ◽  
The Public ◽  
Medical Establishment ◽  
History Of

By 1939, W. H. Auden was able to publish a poem in memory of Sigmund Freud saying, “if often he was wrong and, at times, absurd, to us he is no more a person now but a whole climate of opinion.” Indeed, despite the opposition to Freud's new discipline from the medical establishment and some members of the public, psychoanalysis in its various proliferations had become popular in Europe as early as before World War II, and its terminology had become part of everyday language. More importantly, it propounded new possibilities for diagnosing personal problems and understanding sociopolitical issues. When Freud was asked in 1923 whether he would like to “psycho-analyze Europe in the hope of finding a cure for her ills,” he replied, “I never take a patient to whom I can offer no hope.” But as the twentieth century progressed, Freud and his followers developed ideas that engaged directly and indirectly with the personal and political questions of the age of catastrophes.

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