Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 03:23:44 -0800 (PST)
Subject: AUT: The repression of the political Freudians


Given some of the discussions on psycho-analysis here,
this is a very interesting review:

http://human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper82h.html

"More than any text, their own experiences served as
the raw material for the direction the political
Freudians were to take. The youthful experiences of
any generation will necessarily prefigure its future
conflicts and plans and will determine even its idiom
and emotional tone. For the second generation of
psychoanalysts — all born within a few years of 1900 —
there were several decisive influences: the European
youth movement World War I, and the postwar
revolutions. These events — they were hardly events,
but storms and cyclones — structured their lives.
Nearly all the political Freudians participated in the
youth movement; as actors or observers, all were
affected by the War and subsequent revolution.

These experiences saturated their youthful lives and
ultimately saturated their vision of psychoanalysis.
They never viewed psychoanalysis as a medical theory
or trade, but as a mission that would bring sense to a
disjointed world. Their lives did not possess the
coherence and stability that would allow them to think
of psychoanalysis as a quiet career choice; rather,
they embraced it as a "cause". A major psychoanalytic
journal of the generation was called Psychoanalytische
Bewegung ("The Psychoanalytic Movement") implying an
extra scientific almost social dimension. For these
Freudians, psychoanalysis was part of a larger project
to revamp society (p. 46)."

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