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Journeys into Madness: Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Ist Teil von
German Studies Review, 2015, Vol.38 (1), p.189-191
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: German Studies Association
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
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Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Among the volume's many noteworthy contributions are Steven Beller's reflections on Freud's place in Austrian culture. Beller usefully historicizes several of the psychoanalyst's insights and shows that they often followed rather than influenced literary treatments of the unconscious and its irrational drives. His chapter is also one of the few to deal with the position of Jews and the rise of political antisemitism in the period. Beller, whose earlier works critiqued [Carl Schorske]'s inattention to the role of Jews qua Jews in Viennese culture, here also takes up the contentious question of how Freud's Jewish background informed his articulation of psychoanalysis. Gavin Plumley's essay brings to light a fascinating encounter between Freud and Gustav Mahler, offering insights into Gustav and Alma Mahler's mental anguish and find- ing traces of the composer's mental breakdown in the notes to his never-completed tenth symphony.