Erich Neumann and the Western Crisis of Ethics
Erich Neumann’s Depth Psychology and a New Ethic (1949) was written in response to the Holocaust. He endeavored to distill psychological insights from the crisis of the twentieth century. The old Judeo-Christian morality, he argued, represses evil and led
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Avihu Zakai
Jewish Exiles’ Psychological Interpretations of Nazism “Accurate scholarship can Unearth the whole offence From Luther until now That has driven culture mad, Find what occurred at Linz [where Hitler was raised], What huge imago made A psychopathic god: I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.” —W. H. Auden, “September 1, 1939”
Avihu Zakai
Jewish Exiles’ Psychological Interpretations of Nazism
Avihu Zakai Department of History The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel
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Contents
Introduction 1 Wilhelm Reich and the Sexual Roots of Fascism 11 Psychological Inquiry into Totalitarianism: Erich Fromm’s A Escape from Freedom 49 Siegfried Kracauer’s From Caligari to Hitler: Weimar Cinema as Pandora’s Box 71 Erich Neumann and the Western Crisis of Ethics117 Epilogue147 Bibliography155 Index163
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Introduction
Jewish Exiles’ Psychological Interpretations of Nazism examines works of four German-Jewish scholars who, in their places of exile, sought to probe the pathology of the Nazi mind: Wilhelm Reich’s The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), Erich Fromm’s Escape from Freedom (1941), Siegfried Kracauer’s From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of
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