Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich
Emily Kuriloff, PsyD

FRIDAY 14 JUNE 2024, 4PM (London time)

The JC’s seventh meeting, featuring Emily Kuriloff, PsyD, will be on Friday 14th June 2024 at 4PM London time. 
Registration, which is free of charge, is open to IPA members and candidates, other interested mental health professionals, scholars and academics. A copy of the paper will be made available to registrants, also free of charge and with the copyright owner’s permission, in advance of the meeting. Ideally, all registrants will have read the paper beforehand and have an opportunity to ask questions or make comments to the guest author.

Paper
Kuriloff, E.A. (2014). A child is something else. In: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich: History, Memory, Tradition. New York & London: Routledge, pp. 136-158. Read paper here

Abstract
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and The Legacy of the Third Reich explores the ways in which the trauma of the European Shoah transformed the development of psychoanalysis at its apex and beyond. In this reading, the book’s final chapter, Kuriloff features psychoanalysts some of whom were children during the Third Reich (Henri Parens, Henry Krystal), while others were born afterward to parents who had suffered under the Nazis (Jack Drescher, Evelyn Berger Hartman, Douglas Kirsner, Robert Prince). 

Earlier book chapters had documented ways in which these analysts’ professional foremothers and fathers had downplayed the impact of personal catastrophe on their professional lives. In contrast, this group seems to honor the place of traumatic history in their work. This chapter asks and attempts to answer the question, “Why would this be so?”

The IPA Journal Club would like to thank the publisher, Taylor & Francis, for giving permission to share this chapter with attendees.