Abstract: . . .  between the critical stance of psychoanalysis and the impulse to repress this criticality; the absorption of psychoanalysis into projects of social adjustment is one manifestation of the repressive impulse, grandiose under the totalitarian conditions of Nazism, but present elsewhere too (see Jacoby, 1975, 1983). However, the thesis here is that the collaborationist tendency in psychoanalysis under the Third Reich expressed not only personal and professional fears and ambitions and misguided strategies, . . .
. . .  Goes On in a Most Peculiar Way’: Psychoanalysis before and after 1933 Hamburg: Kellner Verlag/ London: Goethe Institut Cocks, G. (1997) Psychotherapy in the Third Reich Oxford: Oxford University Press (second edition) Cocks, G. (2001) The Devil and the Details Psych . . .
. . .  corrupting the psychoanalytic movement. They did so not only for all the compelling reasons that make it so hard to resist totalitarianism, but also because it was a form of revenge against the Jews. References Bakan, D. (1958/1990) Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition London: Free Association Books, 1990 Bibring, G. (1952) Report on the Seventeenth International Psycho-Analytical Congress International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 33 , 249-272 Brecht, K., Friedrioch, V., Hermanns, L., Kaminer, . . .
. . .  Germany in the Nazi period is an example of the tension between the critical stance of psychoanalysis and the impulse to repress this criticality; the absorption of psychoanalysis into projects of social adjustment is one manifestation of the repressive impulse, grandiose under the totalitarian conditions of Nazism, but present elsewhere too (see Jacoby, 1975, 1983). However, the thesis here is that the collaborationist tendency in psychoanalysis under the Third Reich expressed not only personal and . . .
. . .  Life Goes On in a Most Peculiar Way’: Psychoanalysis before and after 1933 Hamburg: Kellner Verlag/ London: Goethe Institut Cocks, G. (1997) Psychotherapy in the Third Reich Oxford: Oxford University Press (second edition) Cocks, G. (2001) The Devil and the Details Psych . . .
. . .  personally implicated in this Jewish cultural product, at a time and in a place in which things Jewish had become the defining mark of corruption, antisocial activity, parasitism and defilement? If Jewish analysts felt at home with psychoanalysis because of its compatibility with their culture, however much they had repudiated the beliefs of Judaism as a religion , then non-Jewish analysts were always likely to have a sense of marginality within their chosen profession, have the tables turned, as it were, . . .
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