This is the first major study of Otto Gross for decades, and it is more: a reflection, sometimes a meditation, on the significance for psychoanalysis and politics of Gross, then as now. Gottfried Heuers study is, in the best sense of the term, an expression of intellectual passion: as well as being a work of notable scholarship, it bears eloquent witness to the enduring resonance of the enigmatic figure that is Otto Gross. - Paul Bishop, William Jacks Chair of Modern Languages, University of Glasgow
Like a compassionate surgeon, Heuer attends to the wounds created by the misrepresentation of Otto Grosss biography. The result is an original and engaging medicinal history whose gifts are numerous. Reading this book is a transformative experience. There is tremendous value here for depth psychologists and historians alike. - Dr Ruth Meyer, author of Clios Circle: Entering the Imaginal World of Historians
Not only does this superbly articulate book remedy the serious neglect of Otto Gross by revealing his work as vital to our twenty-first century understanding of the individuals imbrication in political collectives, but Freuds Outstanding Colleague/Jungs Twin Brother also provides a new research methodology, a trans-historical approach that is both intersubjective and inter-relational. This book does so much more than mend the gap in existing psycho-historical research. It revisions what we need history for, and how we can write it, so as to be part of a transformational twenty-first century. - Susan Rowland, Chair of MA Engaged Humanities, Pacifica Graduate Institute, and author of Jung as a Writer and The Ecocritical Psyche
Gottfried Heuer has emerged as the world authority on Otto Gross. His book is scholarly, dynamic and thought-provoking. How many scholars, never mind analysts, knew of the high regard in which Freud and Jung once held Gross? How many recognise that phrases like the personal is political and the sexual revolution have explicit or implicit roots in Grosss writings? - Andrew Samuels, University of Essex
FREUDS OUTSTANDING COLLEAGUE/JUNGS TWIN BROTHER
Otto Gross was the first analyst to link his work with radical politics, connecting inner, personal transformation with outer, collective change. Since his death in 1920 his work has been suppressed, despite his seminal influence on the developing analytic discipline and on the fields of sociology, philosophy and literature. Here Gottfried M. Heuer introduces Grosss life and ideas, using an innovative, historiographic methodology he terms trans-historical: a psychoanalytic, intersubjective and trans-temporal approach to the past, aimed at healing wounded history in the present.
Heuer considers several previously unpublished sources to explore Grosss ideas and legacy as well as his unusually bohemian life. His use of the anarchist concept of mutuality to develop a relational and intersubjective approach in his own analytic theory and clinical practice was unique, and his work had a lasting, yet unacknowledged, influence on Freud, Jung (with whom he had the first recorded mutual analysis) and many other analysts. His ideas were appropriated by Max Weber, the founder of sociology, and by the philosopher Martin Buber, playing a pivotal role in what we now call modernity. Heuer also explores Grosss paradigmatic fatherson battle with his father Hans, who established the science of criminology, and touches upon Grosss links to the literary field of the early twentieth century via Kafka, Werfel and others, as well as German expressionism, Dadaism, and Anglo-American literature through the work of D.H. Lawrence.
This innovative, multi-faceted approach to Grosss work and its influence marks a turning point, putting him firmly on the map of the historiography of analysis as well as linking this field with the neighbouring disciplines of the history of law and criminology, literature, sociology and philosophy. In addition, Grosss continuing relevance for leading-edge clinical and political ideas is addressed. This book will be essential reading for Jungian and Freudian analysts, psychotherapists and counsellors, academics and students of analysis, politics, history, criminology and sociology.
Dr. Gottfried M. Heuer is a Jungian training-analyst and -supervisor, neo-Reichian body psychotherapist and independent scholar based in London, with some 70 papers published in the major analytic journals. He is co-founder of the International Otto Gross Society as well as a published graphic artist, photographer, sculptor and poet. His previous books include Sacral Revolutions. Reflecting on the Work of Andrew Samuels and Sexual Revolutions: Psychoanalysis, History and the Father (both Routledge).
Otto Gross, ca. 1915, second from left Otto Gross Archive/Gottfried M. Heuer, London.
FREUDS
OUTSTANDING
COLLEAGUE/JUNGS
TWIN BROTHER
The suppressed psychoanalytic
and political significance of
Otto Gross
Gottfried M. Heuer
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Title: Freuds outstanding colleague/Jungs twin brother : the suppressed psychoanalytic and political significance of Otto Gross / Gottfried M. Heuer.
Description: 1 Edition. | New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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In gratitude for Birgit, beautiful inspiratrice,
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The psychology of the unconscious is the philosophy of the revolution.
Otto Gross, 1913d: 78
Ethics, as applied to history, is teaching the revolution, applied to the state, it is teaching anarchy.