Article ID: CBB001213093

The Crisis of the Psyche and the Future of Germany: The Encounter with Freud in the Weimar Republic (2013)

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Some two decades ago, Peter Fritzsche wrote the first of two influential essays that questioned the then common conviction that Weimar Germany was all about doom and gloom. What is distinctive about twentieth-century German culture, he argued, is not simply `crisis'---economic, political, cultural---but the widespread consciousness of crisis and the allied conviction that these emergency conditions could be managed to Germany's advantage. Recently, Fritzsche's view has been taken up and expanded by a younger generation of German scholars, who have detailed how crisis meant different things to different people, often denoting the possibility of favorable change. This insistence on crisis as the beginning of something (positively) new is in many ways the most far-reaching application of the anti-teleological turn in Weimar historiography.

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Authors & Contributors
Kauders, Anthony D.
Burnham, John Chynoweth
Dufresne, Todd Raymond
Frosh, Stephen
Fuechtner, Veronika
Galison, Peter
Journals
History of Psychology
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
British Journal for the History of Science
German History
History and Technology
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Harvard University
New York University
Palgrave Macmillan
Stuttgart Steiner
University of California Press
Concepts
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Science and society
Science and culture
National Socialism
Science and politics
People
Freud, Sigmund
Carus, Carl Gustav
Fechner, Gustav Theodor
Forman, Paul
Hartmann, Eduard von
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
Germany
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
United States
Hamburg-Langenhorn (Germany)
Institutions
Berliner Psychologisches Institut
Clark University
Berliner Psychoanalytische Vereinigung
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