Binding: Paperback
Description: Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe explores the close relationship between psychoanalysis psycho - medical discourses literature and the visual arts of the late 1800s and early 1900s in Central Europe. Agnieszka Sobolewska addresses the issue of theories and practices of psychoanalysis in Central Europe and the need to undertake interdisciplinary reflection on the specificity of psychoanalytic literary genres and fin - de - si cle psycho - medical discourses. With a focus on the circulation of Freudianism in the territories of present - day Austria Hungary the Czech Republic Poland and Germany the book considers the creative transformations that psychoanalytic thought underwent in these countries and reflects on the specificity of psychoanalytic literary genres and the pivotal role of lifewriting genres in the psychoanalytic movement. Sobolewska's work both fills a visible gap in research on the history of psychoanalysis in Central Europe before the outbreak of World War II and offers the first insightful analysis of the role of life writing in the development of psychoanalytic thought. Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training as well as scholars of the history of psychoanalysis the history of psychology literature cultural anthropology and modernism.
Title: Theories And Practices Of Psychoanalysis In Central Europe Narrative Assemblages Of Self - Analysis Life Writing And Fiction
Author(s): Sobolewska Agnieszka
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032579757
Pages: 260 Pages, 2 Tables, Black And White
Publication Date: 10/13/2023
Series: The History of Psychoanalysis Series
Category: Psychotherapy