Artikelserie zu Klaus Heinrich auf dem RaT-Blog

»The rediscovery of psychoanalysis Heinrich speaks of is a ›rediscovery‹, as if we cannot be certain whether there really was a rediscovery, what the nature of that rediscovery entailed, and whether the rediscovery was one or if it consisted of many rediscoveries. Heinrich tells the story of a series of partial rediscoveries in a context of a generation of students and intellectuals in post-war Berlin. In this context the ›return to Freud‹ was part of a deep-felt need for a new – personal, political, moral, societal, utopian… – beginning. Freud was read as an existentialist, a thinker who provided blows in the face, ›heilsame Choks‹ for those that could and would not avoid the fundamental question raised in Totem and Taboo: Can there be a society not built on the pillars – or ruins – of repression and guilt?«[Weiterlesen]