Word: mitscherlich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lead-off speakers, Professor Alexander Mitscherlich of Frankfurt, agreed. "Nobody is going to take us seriously if we continue to suggest that war happens because fathers hate their sons and want to kill them," he declared. "This congress treats its main topic as if aggression were limited to relations between two individuals, as if we were not faced constantly with war and mass murder." Then Mitscherlich made a heretical suggestion: analysts should get out of the couch-lined offices where they treat only one patient at a time, and join the action alongside the social sciences. "What...
Total Rejection. Roughly half of his hearers gave Mitscherlich a tremendous hand for that, while the other half sat on their hands. Their stony silence, said one analyst, was really "total rejection...
Strong support for Mitscherlich's call to action came also from South America. It was dramatically presented by Buenos Aires' Dr. Marie Langer, a petite, young-looking blonde of 60, who declared that psychoanalysis and Marxism are not mutually exclusive, as Freud and his orthodox followers have maintained. She urged analysts to study the interplay between "love of aggression" and private property. By abolishing private property, it is held, a country would abolish one of the ways in which people express their aggressions. Critics of that view, however, could point out that there is no evidence of diminished...
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