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W Bohleber

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PubMed1996

[Controversy regarding Freud. On the postponement of the Freud exhibit in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C].

The heated public controversy about Freud and psychoanalysis that has been raging in America for a number of years has meanwhile found its way into major German dailies as well (Frankfurter Rundschau 5.1.1996; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 11.1.1996; Die Tageszeitung 17.1.1996). Bohleber outlines the latest case of Freud-bashing in the United States, sparked off by plans for a Freud exhibition in Washington. Closer inspection of the motives and roots of the attacks on Freud lead to the hardly surprising conclusion that the popular parlour game "Freud Bashing" has crested the wave in a social climate marked by fundamentalist conservatism, the new prudishness, and a species of scientific puritanism born of blind belief in the "exact sciences". The main representative of this attitude in connection with psychoanalysis is Adolf Grünbaum, while "revisionists" like Jeffrey Masson and Frederick Crews are to be regarded rather as exponents of the sexual counter-revolution. Bohleber's article is intended as an introductory commentary on the following essay by Jonathan Lear.

Conflict, Psychological↗
PubMed1992

[Nationalism, hatred of foreigners and antisemitism. Psychoanalytic considerations].

Widespread social crisis phenomena such as unemployment, shortage of housing or lack of prospects are not sufficient to explain aggressive nationalism and the revival of xenophobia in present-day Germany. While from a psychoanalytic viewpoint xenophobia and anti-Semitism have been extensively examined, the same can by no means be said of the phantasm of the "nation". With reference to a case study, the author demonstrates that the adoption of nationalist ideologies (which in Germany specifically are very much bound up with the traditional notion of the nation as a biological organism) can serve both to prevent the outbreak of neurosis at the individual level and to effect what Freud called the "spurious" healing of existing neuroses. Psychologically speaking, the phantasm of the "nation" provides scope for the realization of the desire for pre-ambivalent fusion with an object that has rid itself of everything heterogeneous, alien and autonomous.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1992

[Identity and the self. The importance of recent developmental research for the psychoanalytic theory of the self].

Recent findings from research on human development have implications for the psychoanalytic concepts of self and identity. The emerging feeling of selfhood appears to be the precipitate of finely tuned interactive regulations involving mother and child. Similarly, early mirroring processes are shown to have a fundamental significance for the experimental structure of self and identity. The author discusses the new meanings acquired by the identity concept as a result of these investigations. He describes the elementary psychic structures of identity as well as the subordinate regulatory function of the sense of identity.

Ego↗
PubMed1989

[Psychoanalysis, romantic nature philosophy and German idealistic thinking].

The author examines the historical roots of Freud-revision at the Stuttgart Institute of Psychotherapy and Depth Psychology during post-war times. There had been strivings then for a synthesis of Freud's materialistic analytic theory, the holistic worldly-spiritual theory especially of C. G. Jung and philosophical anthropology. The author suggests that this revision of Freud's theory and thoughts is based on specifically German traditions of romantic and idealistic thinking which predestined the willingness of psychoanalysts to participate in the integration of psychotherapeutic schools being prescribed by the Nazi-regime and also having determined the continuation of this "synoptic" project after the end of the "Göring-Institut".

Freudian Theory↗