History of Psychoanalytic Movements After the Holocaust - Diaspora and Vicissitudes of Jewishness

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02079
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of thought
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: TSUIKI Kosuke 京都大学, 人文科学研究所, 准教授 (70314250)
• Research Collaborator: DELILLE Emmanuel Centre Marc Broch, Researcher
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 精神分析 / ユダヤ性 / ホロコースト / ディアスポラ / ニューヨーク精神分析協会 / パリ精神分析協会 / 組織分裂 / ラカン派

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The project traced back the process of splits and scatterings of psychoanalytic organizations, which spread as in the reverse of the social and institutional developments of psychoanalysis, after the World War II which had provoked many changes in the geography of this discipline, following the Holocaust under the Nazism. The aspects of these splits and scatterings that psychoanalysts themselves dare to compare to the Diaspora and that one could consider as being behind the general decline of psychoanalysis in the whole world, are however different between France which found out a non-Jewish leader before the War and the United States where, in the same period, the discipline was mostly conducted by Jewish analysts and, during the War, were taken in still many Jewish analysts who escaped from Europe where they were persecuted. Based on the literature and documents on the subject, the project searched the reasons of these differences.

Free Research Field

精神分析