Nazi Psychoanalysis

Volume I: Only Psychoanalysis Won the War

By: Laurence A. Rickels

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A revolutionary new approach to the place of Nazi ideology in twentieth-century thought

Psychoanalysis was a symptom of everything the Nazis reviled: an intellectual assault on Kultur largely perpetrated by Jews. It was also, as this remarkable work shows, an inescapable symptom of modernity, practiced, transformed, and perpetuated by and within the Nazi regime. A sweeping, magisterial work by one of the most incisive and interesting scholars of modern philosophy, theory, and culture, Nazi Psychoanalysis studies the breadth of this phenomenon in order to clarify and deepen our understanding not only of psychoanalysis but of the twentieth century.

Tracing the intersections of psychoanalysis and Nazism, Laurence A. Rickels discovers startling conjunctions and continuities in writers as diverse as Adler and Adorno, Kafka and Goethe, Lacan, H. Rider Haggard, and Heidegger, and in works as different as Der Golem, Civilization and Its Discontents, Frankenstein, Faust, and Brave New World. In a richly allusive style, he writes of psychoanalysis in multifarious incarnations, of the concept and actual history of "insurance," of propaganda in theory and practice, of psychological warfare, Walt Disney, and the Frankfurt School debates--a dizzying tour of the twentieth century that helps us see how the "corridor wars" that arise in the course of theoretical, clinical, social, political, and cultural attempts to describe the human psyche are related to the world wars of the century in an intimate and infinitely complicated manner.

Though some have used its appropriation by the Nazis to brand psychoanalysis with the political odium of fascism, Rickels instead finds an uncanny convergence--one that suggests far-reaching possibilities for both psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic criticism. His work, with its enormous intellectual and historical span, makes a persuasive argument that no element of modernity--not psychoanalysis any more than Marxism or deconstruction, cultural revolutions or technological advances-can be adequately understood without a thorough consideration of its Nazi component.

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Foreword	p. vii
Achtung: A Preface to Nazi Psychoanalysis	p. xv
Apart	p. 1
It's Back!	p. 3
Werther Report	p. 11
How Many Siblings	p. 14
Same Difference	p. 17
Conversion	p. 21
The Buff Object of Identification	p. 28
The Body of His Work	p. 31
Gotta Read Goette	p. 36
U.S. is Them	p. 40
Higher and Higher	p. 45
Plane Talk	p. 47
Lights! Action! Cut!	p. 54
Double Burial	p. 59
Therapists for Heyer	p. 65
Shock Talk	p. 72
Columns	p. 77
Writing a Letter to Heyer	p. 82
The Hand-Me-Down Book	p. 91
Heyer and Heyer	p. 96
Humanities	p. 105
It Just Takes Two	p. 108
Aircraft That Cannot Be	p. 113
Panic Attack	p. 122
Mars Attracts	p. 127
Siegerkraft	p. 129
The Psychotic Sublime	p. 135
The Schreber Garden of Eden	p. 150
Projection Therapy	p. 157
Wishing Wells	p. 166
It's Time	p. 171
Dominik Gene	p. 179
Countdown	p. 191
Hotel Dominik	p. 203
Doubles	p. 209
Double Amnesia	p. 211
Hunger	p. 215
Exile on War Neurosis	p. 222
On the Second Date	p. 228
Manuals	p. 235
Efficiency Pack	p. 244
Gi Joey	p. 252
Family Program	p. 257
Family Outing	p. 265
Therapy Values	p. 275
Epilogue on Fire	p. 285
Leave a Message, but Don't Forget to Breathe	p. 287
The Teen Age	p. 290
Middle Ages Crisis	p. 292
Jung Frankenstein	p. 296
Last Word	p. 299
Primal Time	p. 303
Wonders Never Cease	p. 306
Tv Services	p. 320
A Couple More Drags	p. 324
Up in Smoke	p. 326
References	p. 329
Filmography	p. 341
Index	p. 343
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