Shows how intellectuals and artists engaged with Freudian thinking
to create an imagined ‘Viennese community’
Explores deeper questions about emigration and identity,
moving beyond understandings of psychoanalysis as therapy or intellectual paradigm
This book reconsiders
standard narratives regarding Austrian émigrés and exiles to Britain by addressing the seminal role of Sigmund Freud and his
writings, and the critical part played by his contemporaries, in the construction of a method promoting humanized relations
between individual and society and subjectivity and culture. This anthology presents groundbreaking examples of the manners
in which well-known personalities including psychoanalysts Anna Freud and Ernst Kris, sociologist Marie Jahoda, authors Stefan
Zweig and Hilde Spiel, film director Berthold Viertel, architect Ernst Freud, and artist Oskar Kokoschka, achieved a greater
impact, and contributed to the broadening of British and global cultures, through constructing a psychologically effective
language and activating their émigré networks. They advanced a visionary Viennese tradition through political and social engagements
and through promoting humanistic perspectives in their scientific, educational and artistic works.
Elana
Shapira is Lecturer in Design History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria, and a cultural
and design historian. She is the project leader of the Austrian Science Fund research project “Visionary Vienna: Design and
Society 1918–1934” (2017-2021).
Daniela Finzi is Lecturer in the complementary curriculum in Cultural Studies at
the University of Vienna, Austria, and a literature and cultural historian. She has been scientific director and board member
of the Sigmund Freud Privatstiftung since 2016.
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