ABSTRACT
Riccardo Steiner, one of the most well known historians of psychoanalysis, has in the numerous papers in this volume traced the relationship between psychoanalysis and the larger cultural sphere with clarity and erudition. In this, his first book, he examines the effects of the 'new diaspora' in the field – the emigration of German and Austrian analysts during the Nazi persecution, especially to London. In particular he draws upon the correspondence between Ernest Jones and Anna Freud to illuminate the attitudes of those two central figures to 'the politics of emigration'.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Two|13 pages
The first emigration wave (1933–1935) and the first "Sorgenkinder"
Uncertainty and confusion in Europe and North America
chapter Four|17 pages
The refugees' American dream
"They could emigrate for instance to Buffalo, Detroit, Cincinnati, St. Louis . . ."
chapter Five|8 pages
The final blow
Edith Jacobsohn and the expulsion of Jewish analysts from the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute
chapter Seven|10 pages
Special "Kinder" and special "Sorge"
Wilhelm Reich, Edith jacobsohn, and political neutrality in psychoanalysis