More than just a therapeutic technique, psychoanalysis as a school
of thought has redefined our ideas on sexuality, the self,
morality, family, and the nature of the mind for much of the
twentieth century. At its broadest, Freud's thinking on
civilization and social forces provides a context in which to
consider the history of political struggle among individuals and
societies. This volume explores a central paradox in the evolution
of psychoanalytic thought and practice and the ways in which they
were used. Why and how have some authoritarian regimes utilized
psychoanalytic concepts of the self to envisage a new social and
political order? How did psychoanalysis provide both theoretical
and practical elements to legitimize resistance to those same
regimes? How can a school of thought be co-opted so deftly by
different groups for different political ends? Bringing together
contributions from innovative scholars of history, politics, and
psychoanalysis, this volume analyzes the various outcomes of this
fascinating and influential theory's development under a wide
spectrum of governments that restricted political and cultural
freedoms from the 1930s to the present. The regimes analyzed range
from Fascist Italy, Vichy France, and Spain and Hungary under
Fascism and Communism; modern Latin American dictatorships, such as
Brazil and Argentina in the 1960s and 1970s; and the influence of
Hoover, McCarthy, and the larger Cold War on psychoanalysis in
America. A fresh addition to an enormous body of scholarship, this
will be required reading for academics interested in the
relationship between politics and non-political systems of thoughts
and beliefs, the transnational circulation of ideas, social
movements, and the intellectual and social history of
psychoanalysis.
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