Psychoanalysis - the Promised Land? The History of Psychoanalysis in Poland 1900-1989. Part I. The Sturm und Drang Period. Beginnings of Psychoanalysis in the Polish Lands during the Partitions 1900-1918

• Main Author: Dybel, Paweł (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2020
• Series: Cross-Roads 20
• Subjects: European history; Philosophy; Cultural studies; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); 1900; 1900-1918; 1900-1989; 1918; 1989; Assimilation of Jews; Burzy; Congresses of Polish doctors; Część; Drang; Dybel; Dzieje; History; Land?; Lands; Naporu; obiecana?; Okres; okresu; Partitions; Period; Początki; Poland; Polish; Polsce; polskich; Promised; Psychoanaliza; psychoanalizy; Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalysis and Sexuality; Publications on psychoanalysis; rozbiorów; Sanatorium of Jekels; Sturm; Universitas; ziemia; ziemiach
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The book is the first systematic study of the beginnings of psychoanalysis on Polish lands in Galicia (Austria-Hungary) and Congress Poland (Russia) during the partitions of Poland in the years between 1900 and 1918. The birth of the movement was presented on a broad cultural background, as an element of the assimilation processes among Polish Jews. At the same time, Freud's and Jung's theories began to gain popularity in Polish medical, philosophical, artistic and literary circles. By 1918, over a dozen articles on psychoanalysis had been published in Polish scientific and philosophical journals. Freud himself was vitally interested in this process, sending Ludwig Jekels to Krakow in the role of - as he wrote - an "apostle" of his theory in the circles of the Polish intelligentsia.