Overview

This book reconsiders standard narratives regarding Austrian émigrés and exiles to Britain by addressing the seminal role of Sigmund Freud and his writings, and the critical part played by his contemporaries, in the construction of a method promoting humanized relations between individual and society and subjectivity and culture. This anthology presents groundbreaking examples of the manners in which well-known personalities including psychoanalysts Anna Freud and Ernst Kris, sociologist Marie Jahoda, authors Stefan Zweig and Hilde Spiel, film director Berthold Viertel, architect Ernst Freud, and artist Oskar Kokoschka, achieved a greater impact, and contributed to the broadening of British and global cultures, through constructing a psychologically effective language and activating their émigré networks. They advanced a visionary Viennese tradition through political and social engagements and through promoting humanistic perspectives in their scientific, educational and artistic works.

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Author:   Elana Shapira ,  Daniela Finzi
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   2020 ed.
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9783030517861

ISBN 10:   3030517861
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   23 December 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Austrian Emigres and Exiles and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain from the 1930s through the 1970s- Elana Shapira2. The Promised Land: Freud's Dream of England- Liliane Weissberg3. Ernst L. Freud, Domestic Architect: Zuhause in Berlin, at Home in London- Volker M. Welter4. Intellectual hero, most beloved master: Stefan Zweig and Sigmund Freud- Werner Michler5. Emigres, Exiles, and Strangers: Berthold Viertel and 1930s Cinema in Britain- Laura Marcus6. The Psychoanalyzed Artist: Oskar Kokoschka in British Exile- Regine Bonnefoit7. Anna Freud Shaping Child Education and Promoting Democratic Citizenship in Britain- Michal Shapira8. Whose/Which Freud ? Social Context and Discourse Analysis of the Controversial Discussions - Mitchell G. Ash9. Exile, War Work, and Integrated Analysis- Louis Rose10. Marie Jahoda Deconstructing Freud- Elana Shapira11. Hilde Spiel's Freud: Jews, Exile, and a Viennese Legacy- Lisa Silverman

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Although they were written largely before COVID-19 hit, he eleven essays in this collection resonate uncannily with our experience of the pandemic ... . the book's chapters range across theory and methodology in history and psychoanalysis, but also in human memory and its repression, modernism, Sigmund and other Freuds of note, art and architecture, language, violence, the persistence of anti-Semitism within and outside of Austria, material culture and dispossession, fantasy and nostalgia, identity, gender and marginalization. (Elizabeth Ann Danto, Psychoanalysis and History, Vol. 23 (3), 2021)

Author Information

Elana Shapira is Lecturer in Design History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria, and a cultural and design historian. She is the project leader of the Austrian Science Fund research project “Visionary Vienna: Design and Society 1918–1934” (2017-2021). Daniela Finzi is Lecturer in the complementary curriculum in Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, and a literature and cultural historian. She has been scientific director and board member of the Sigmund Freud Privatstiftung since 2016.

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