Language:
English
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Political Psychology
Angaben zur Quelle:
10, 1 (1989) 3-26
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews Psychology
Abstract:
An expanded version of a paper presented at the 9th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Amsterdam, July 1986. Discusses the adaptation to Nazi ideology and to the Nazi regime of psychoanalysts in Germany, specifically at the Berlin Psychoanalytical Institute, which in 1936 became the German Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy. The first stage in Aryanization of the Institute was the expulsion of Jewish members; 74 succeeded in emigrating. Others were later deported, and some of them were murdered. One aspect of the submission of psychoanalysts was the distancing of themselves from from the "Jewish science" of Freud; another was an unwillingness to take a critical stance against the values of Nazism, including eugenics. Thus, German psychoanalysis became a tool of the regime. It took a long time after the war for the profession to start to rid itself of its illusions about its past and recognize its complicity with Nazism.
Note:
Including the fate of Jewish psychoanalysts.
URL:
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