Main description:

* Explores how the rise of Nazism went alongside the development of psychoanalysis
* Examines how the Nazi distortion of language affected psychoanalysis
* Covers how this language distortion continues to affect psychoanalytic theory and practice

Contents:

Series Editor's foreword by Gabriela Legorreta. 1. Introduction: old words, new meanings 2. The law beyond the law 3. The mMoses or brother Hitler 4. The Freudian heresy 5. The parasite and identity: the Gestalt 6. Psychoanalysis and Weltanschauung in 1930 7. Purifying psychoanalysis scientifically 8. Hartmann: logos against bios 9. Extreme trauma: which unconscious? 10. Mother, child and empathy 11. The liquidation of tragedy 12. The temptation of kitsch 13. What about hatred? 14. Conclusion: the foundations of words