By Laurence A. Rickels
Psychoanalysis used to be a symptom of every thing the Nazis reviled: an highbrow attack on Kultur principally perpetrated through Jews. It used to be additionally, as this striking revisionary paintings exhibits, an inescapable symptom of modernity, practiced, reworked, and perpetuated via and in the Nazi regime. A sweeping, magisterial paintings via essentially the most incisive and fascinating students of contemporary philosophy, thought, and tradition, Nazi Psychoanalysis stories the breadth of this phenomenon on the way to make clear and deepen our knowing not just of psychoanalysis yet of the 20th century itself. Tracing the intersections of psychoanalysis and Nazism, Laurence A. Rickels discovers startling conjunctions and continuities in writers as diversified as Adler and Adorno, Kafka and Goethe, Lacan, H. Rider Haggard, and Heidegger; and in works as diverse as Der Golem, Civilization and Its Discontents, Frankenstein, Faust, and courageous New international. In a richly allusive sort, he writes of psychoanalysis in multifarious incarnations, of the idea that and real heritage of "insurance," of propaganda in concept and perform, of mental battle, Walt Disney, and the Frankfurt tuition debates-a dizzying travel of the 20 th century that is helping us see how the "corridor wars" that come up during theoretical, scientific, social, political, and cultural makes an attempt to explain the human psyche are relating to the area wars of the century in an intimate and infinitely complex demeanour. even though a few have used its appropriation by means of the Nazis to model psychoanalysis with the political odium of fascism, Rickels as a substitute unearths an uncanny convergence-one that implies far-reaching percentages for either psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic feedback. His paintings, with its huge, immense highbrow and old span, makes a persuasive argument that no section of modernity-not psychoanalysis any longer than Marxism or deconstruction, cultural revolutions or technological advances-can be safely understood with no thorough attention of its Nazi part. Laurence A. Rickels is professor of German and comparative literature on the college of California at Santa Barbara. His books comprise The Vampire Lectures (1999), The Case of California (2001), and the edited quantity performing Out in teams (1999), all released through Minnesota.