Abstract

BRACCO, Mariangela Kamnitzer. What new findings I encountered in Berlin: a travel account. J. psicanal. [online]. 2023, vol.56, n.104, pp.319-330.  Epub Aug 23, 2024. ISSN 0103-5835.  https://doi.org/10.5935/0103-5835.v56n104.26.

What was left of psychoanalysis in Central Europe after the destruction perpetrated by nazism? The question that nortures this text will initially take the reader to Berlin in the 1920s. A period in which the Institute of Psychoanalysis flourished under the social-democratic regime of the Weimar Republic. However, the research that drives the author will reveal an intimate view: in this city she also searches for her ancestors, who suffered the same brutal vicissitudes to which many Jews were subjected. Thus, in this double register that the article will be developed, focusing on showing reparatory processes from both a personal and collective point of view. On a personal level, the author will testify of her journey through a traumatic core. In regards to the psychoanalytic movement, it will report the discovery of a fruitful work that is carried out by our German colleagues: historical research in psychoanalysis, with emphasis on psychoanalyst and researcher Ulrike May. It will also show how both levels are articulated with the ethical and moral commitment of many Germans in not forgetting the past, which is reflected in consistent government policies.

Keywords : nazism; Berlin Institute of Psychoanalysis; history of psychoanalysis; trauma; testimony.

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