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Freud and the Émigré

Austrian Émigrés, Exiles and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1930s–1970s

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  1. Elana Shapira

    1. University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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  2. Daniela Finzi

    1. Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria

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  • Offers new perspectives on Freud’s role in the lives of Austrian émigrés and exiles in Britain in the period following World War II
  • Shows how intellectuals and artists engaged with Freudian thinking to create an imagined ‘Viennese community’
  • Explores deeper questions about emigration and identity, moving beyond understandings of psychoanalysis as therapy or intellectual paradigm

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Austrian Émigrés and Exiles and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain

    • Elana Shapira
    Pages 1-34

  3. The Promised Land: Freud’s Dream of England

    • Liliane Weissberg
    Pages 35-60

  4. Ernst L. Freud, Domestic Architect: Zuhause in Berlin, at Home in London

    • Volker M. Welter
    Pages 61-76

  5. Intellectual Hero, Most Beloved Master: Stefan Zweig and Sigmund Freud in British Exile

    • Werner Michler
    Pages 77-94

  6. Émigrés, Exiles and Strangers: Berthold Viertel and 1930s Cinema in Britain

    • Laura Marcus
    Pages 95-114

  7. “A Sea Ringed with Visions”—Oskar Kokoschka’s Reception of Sigmund Freud’s Theories in His London Years

    • Régine Bonnefoit
    Pages 115-139

  8. Anna Freud Shaping Child Education and Promoting “Democratic Citizenship” in Britain

    • Michal Shapira
    Pages 141-160

  9. Whose/Which “Freud”? Social Context and Discourse Analysis of the “Controversial Discussions”

    • Mitchell G. Ash
    Pages 161-178

  10. War Work and Integrated Analysis: Ernst Kris and E.H. Gombrich in Exile

    • Louis Rose
    Pages 179-193

  11. Marie Jahoda Deconstructing Freud

    • Elana Shapira
    Pages 195-215

  12. Hilde Spiel’s Freud: Jews, Exile, and a Viennese Legacy

    • Lisa Silverman
    Pages 217-231

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 233-277
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About this book

This book reconsiders standard narratives regarding Austrian émigrés and exiles to Britain by addressing the seminal role of Sigmund Freud and his writings, and the critical part played by his contemporaries, in the construction of a method promoting humanized relations between individual and society and subjectivity and culture. This anthology presents groundbreaking examples of the manners in which well-known personalities including psychoanalysts Anna Freud and Ernst Kris, sociologist Marie Jahoda, authors Stefan Zweig and Hilde Spiel, film director Berthold Viertel, architect Ernst Freud, and artist Oskar Kokoschka, achieved a greater impact, and contributed to the broadening of British and global cultures, through constructing a psychologically effective language and activating their émigré networks. They advanced a visionary Viennese tradition through political and social engagements and through promoting humanistic perspectives in their scientific, educational and artistic works.

Reviews

“Although they were written largely before COVID-19 hit, he eleven essays in this collection resonate uncannily with our experience of the pandemic … . the book's chapters range across theory and methodology in history and psychoanalysis, but also in human memory and its repression, modernism, Sigmund and other Freuds of note, art and architecture, language, violence, the persistence of anti-Semitism within and outside of Austria, material culture and dispossession, fantasy and nostalgia, identity, gender and marginalization.” (Elizabeth Ann Danto, Psychoanalysis and History, Vol. 23 (3), 2021)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Elana Shapira

  • Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria

    Daniela Finzi

About the editors

Elana Shapira is Lecturer in Design History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria, and a cultural and design historian. She is the project leader of the Austrian Science Fund research project “Visionary Vienna: Design and Society 1918–1934” (2017-2021).


Daniela Finzi is Lecturer in the complementary curriculum in Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, and a literature and cultural historian. She has been scientific director and board member of the Sigmund Freud Privatstiftung since 2016.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Freud and the Émigré

  • Book Subtitle: Austrian Émigrés, Exiles and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1930s–1970s

  • Editors: Elana Shapira, Daniela Finzi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51787-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51786-1Published: 23 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51789-2Published: 23 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51787-8Published: 16 October 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 277

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of Modern Europe, Intellectual Studies, Cultural History, Migration, Psychoanalysis

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