1st Edition

Ferenczi and Beyond Exile of the Budapest School and Solidarity in the Psychoanalytic Movement During the Nazi Years

By Judit Meszaros Copyright 2014
    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book explores how the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis took shape and examines the role played in it by Sandor Ferenczi. It integrates the Hungarian story of the "exile of the Budapest School" with an American perspective on "solidarity in the psychoanalytic movement during the Nazi years".

    About The Author -- Series Editor’s Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Towards psychoanalysis (1897–1908) 2 -- The forming of the Budapest School (1908–1918) -- “Budapest will now become the headquarters of our movement” 38 -- The first wave of emigration in the early 1920s -- A period of consolidation -- The USA’s immigration policy: the sum of conflicting vectors -- “Your Committee”: the Emergency Committee on Relief and Immigration of the American Psychoanalytic Association -- The time has come (1938–1941): the second wave of emigration -- Emigration: losses and gains -- Epilogue

    Biography

    Judit Meszaros