ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the title of the little communication that has been rendered as "On Throwing Dishes from a Window in a Dream", while the original reads "On Throwing Dishes from a Window in Dreams". There are three dimensions to relationship between psychoanalysis and politics. The first is the features of the realm of intra- and extramural professional conflict. Personal and factional disputes among psychoanalysts were aggravated by the deep emotional ties produced in training. The second dimension of the question of psychoanalysis and politics is that of attitudes and reactions to psychoanalysis. It also shows the degree to which psychoanalytic thought had become an influential fact of European intellectual life by the 1930s. The third dimension of psychoanalysis and politics before 1939, that is, the ways in which psychoanalysts apprehended and affected the highly volatile political world in which they lived. Zurich analyst Paul Parin has recently enumerated other reasons for an ongoing lack of psychoanalytic involvement with contemporary issues.
