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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