Freud and the Émigré: Austrian Émigrés, Exiles and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1930s–1970s

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.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: Austrian Émigrés and Exiles and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain from the 1930s through the 1970s- Elana Shapira.- 2. The Promised Land: Freud’s Dream of England- Liliane Weissberg.- 3. Ernst L. Freud, Domestic Architect: Zuhause in Berlin, at Home in London- Volker M. Welter.- 4. Intellectual hero, most beloved master: Stefan Zweig and Sigmund Freud- Werner Michler.- 5. Émigrés, Exiles, and Strangers: Berthold Viertel and 1930s Cinema in Britain- Laura Marcus.- 6. The Psychoanalyzed Artist: Oskar Kokoschka in British Exile- Régine Bonnefoit.- 7. Anna Freud Shaping Child Education and Promoting "Democratic Citizenship" in Britain- Michal Shapira.- 8. Whose/Which "Freud"? Social Context and Discourse Analysis of the "Controversial Discussions"- Mitchell G. Ash.- 9. Exile, War Work, and Integrated Analysis- Louis Rose.- 10. Marie Jahoda Deconstructing Freud- Elana Shapira.- 11. Hilde Spiel’s Freud: Jews, Exile, and a Viennese Legacy- Lisa Silverman.

About the Author :
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.

Review :
“Although they were written largely before COVID-19 hit, he eleven essays in this collection resonate uncannily with our experience of the pandemic … . the book's chapters range across theory and methodology in history and psychoanalysis, but also in human memory and its repression, modernism, Sigmund and other Freuds of note, art and architecture, language, violence, the persistence of anti-Semitism within and outside of Austria, material culture and dispossession, fantasy and nostalgia, identity, gender and marginalization.” (Elizabeth Ann Danto, Psychoanalysis and History, Vol. 23 (3), 2021)