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Eros of the Impossible - The History of Psychoanalysis in Russia (Hardcover)
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Eros of the Impossible - The History of Psychoanalysis in Russia (Hardcover)
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Marxism was not the only Western idea to influence the course of
Russian history. In the early decades of this century,
psychoanalysis was one of the most important components of Russian
intellectual life. Freud himself, writing in 1912, said that "in
Russia, there seems to be a veritable epidemic of psychoanalysis."
But until Alexander Etkind's Eros of the Impossible, the hidden
history of Russian involvement in psychoanalysis has gone largely
unnoticed and untold. The early twentieth century was a time when
the craving of Russian intellectuals for world culture found a
natural outlet in extended sojourns in the West, linking some of
the most creative Russian personalities of the day with the best
universities, salons, and clinics of Germany, Austria, France, and
Switzerland. These ambassadors of the Russian intelligentsia were
also Freud's patients, students, and collaborators. They exerted a
powerful influence on the formative phase of psychoanalysis
throughout Europe, and they carried their ideas back to a receptive
Russian culture teeming with new ideas and full of hopes of
self-transformation. Fascinated by the potential of psychoanalysis
to remake the human personality in the socialist mold, Trotsky and
a handful of other Russian leaders sponsored an early form of
Soviet psychiatry. But, as the Revolution began to ossify into
Stalinism, the early promise of a uniquely Russian approach to
psychoanalysis was cut short. An early attempt to merge medicine
and politics forms final chapters of Etkind's tale, the telling of
which has been made possible by the undoing of the Soviet system.
The effervescent Russian contribution to modern psychoanalysis has
gone unrecognized too long, but Eros of the Impossible restores
this fascinating story to its rightful place in history.
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