Article ID: CBB001552647

Freud, Jung and Boas: The Psychoanalytic Engagement with Anthropology Revisited (2015)

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Sigmund Freud's and C. G. Jung's turn to evolutionist anthropological material after 1909 is usually seen as a logical progression of their long-term interest in such material. It is also seen that they used this material ignorant of the significant challenges to the evolutionist paradigm underpinning such material, in particular the challenges led by Franz Boas. This paper argues otherwise: that both psychologists' turnings to such material was a new development, that neither had shown great interest in such material before 1909, and that their turnings to such material, far from being taken in ignorance of the challenges to evolutionist anthropology, were engagements with those challenges, because the evolutionist paradigm lay at the base of psychoanalysis. It argues that it is no coincidence that this engagement occurred after their return from America in 1909, where they had come into first-hand contact with the challenges of Franz Boas.

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Authors & Contributors
Morris-Reich, Amos
Alexa Geisthövel
Valentina Mann
Zumwalt, Rosemary Lévy
Teslow, Tracy
Gephart, Emily Willard
Concepts
Anthropology
Science and race
Psychology
Cultural anthropology
Spiritualism
Science and culture
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Places
United States
Germany
Americas
Russia
Soviet Union
Institutions
Columbia University
American Museum of Natural History, New York
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