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By Gottfried Heuer

The rules of psychoanalyst Otto Gross (1877-1920) have had a seminal effect at the improvement of psychoanalytic conception and medical perform and but his paintings has been principally ignored. For Freud, he used to be certainly one of in basic terms analysts ‘capable of constructing an unique contribution' (Jung used to be the other), and Jung known as Gross 'my dual brother' during their mutual research.

This is a huge interdisciplinary enquiry into the historical past, nature and plausibility of the assumption of a 'sexual revolution', drawing additionally at the similar fields of heritage, legislation, criminology, literature, sociology and philosophy. Divided into 4 components and supplying an interdisciplinary and foreign variety of members, components of debate include:

  • a modern point of view on sexual revolutions
  • the huge impact of Otto Gross
  • the father/son conflict
  • a Jungian standpoint on history.

Sexual Revolutions introduces Gross’ paintings to the educational and medical fields of psychoanalysis and Jungian research. even if most folk affiliate the time period with the Nineteen Sixties, its foundations lie within the long-neglected yet sensational paintings of the early psychoanalyst Otto Gross. This e-book should be crucial studying for all psychoanalysts and Jungian analysts with an curiosity in studying extra approximately his paintings.

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Para 250: Studying history is integral to the intellectual cultivation of the gifted child. Jung is speaking of an appreciation of history `in the widest sense of the word'. He uses the term `history' to denote an acknowledgement of a link to a shared, collective past which has contributed to the development of each individual's psychic disposition. History (in title) Jung criticises Freud for failing to note the debt owed to intellectual predecessors of psychoanalysis. Jung thus embarks upon a contextualisation of Freud's theories.

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Asks Grant, by way of introducing Sexing the Millennium [op. ) A better question, if an unanswerable and hence purely rhetorical one, would be: how many sexual revolutions have there been? The history of radical shifts in the kinds and conditions of human sexual relating is almost unimaginably long, and there can be no justi®cation for limiting the historical and cultural reference of the term `sexual revolution' to that notoriously elastic decade, the 1960s, or to the western edge of Europe and North America.

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