On aggression, psychoanalysis as moral politics in post-Nazi Germany, Dagmar Herzog
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On aggression, psychoanalysis as moral politics in post-Nazi Germany, Dagmar Herzog
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The heyday of intellectual and popular preoccupation with psychoanalysis in the West reached from the 1940s to the 1970s, from post-Nazism through Cold War consumerism to the anti-Vietnam War movement and the sexual revolution. In each country the ensuing debates over the truth about how human beings are took unique form. Only in West Germany did debates about the value of psychoanalysis as a system of thought circle so intensely around the question of whether or not aggression was an ineradicable aspect of the human animal and whether or not it might best be conceived as a drive comparable in strength and form to libido. This paper analyzes the wholly unexpected consequences set in motion by the publication of ethologist Konrad Lorenz's On Aggression, not only on the oeuvre of the preeminent West German psychoanalyst Alexander Mitscherlich, but also on the eventual shape taken by the New Left's politics and theories of human nature
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On aggression
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933295076
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Dagmar Herzog
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EUI papers
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psychoanalysis as moral politics in post-Nazi Germany
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