After Freud Left: A Century of Psychoanalysis in America

Description

From August 29 to September 21, 1909, Sigmund Freud visited the United States, where he gave five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. This volume brings together a stunning gallery of leading historians of psychoanalysis and of American culture to consider the broad history of psychoanalysis in America and to reflect on what has happened to Freud’s legacy in the United States in the century since his visit.         There has been a flood of recent scholarship on Freud’s life and on the European and world history of psychoanalysis, but historians have produced relatively little on the proliferation of psychoanalytic thinking in the United States, where Freud’s work had monumental intellectual and social impact. The essays inAfter Freud Leftprovide readers with insights and perspectives to help them understand the uniqueness of Americans’ psychoanalytic thinking, as well as the forms in which the legacy of Freud remains active in the United States in the twenty-first century.After Freud Leftwill be essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century American history, general intellectual and cultural history, and psychology and psychiatry.   1909 to the 1940s: Freud and the psychoanalytic movement cross the Atlantic. Introduction to part I: Transnationalizing Psychotherapy, 1909: notes on a vintage / Sonu Shamdasani Clark revisited: reappraising Freud in America / Richard Skues "A fat wad of dirty pieces of paper": Freud on America, Freud in America, Freud and America / Ernst Falzeder Mitteleuropa on the Hudson: on the struggle for American psychoanalysis after the Anschluß / George Makari Another dimension of the émigré experience: from Central Europe to the United States via Turkey / Hale Usak-Sahin -- After World War II: the fate of Freud's legacy in American culture. Introduction to part II: a shift in perspective Freud and the vicissitudes of modernism in the United States, 1940-1980 / Dorothy Ross Freud, anxiety, and the Cold War / Louis Menand Heinz Kohut's Americanization of Freud / Elizabeth Lunbeck The walking man and the talking cure / Jean-Christophe Agnew.