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(2005) Beyond art: a third culture, Dordrecht, Springer.
The close connection between Austria and Hungary once again becomes visible in the development of psychoanalysis. The dialogue between Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczt is one of the most significant within the psychoanalytic school. A very important conference of the psychoanalytical movement therefore took place in 1918 in Budapest (Ferenc Erös). In general, psychoanalysis owed Hungary a great deal, intellectually as well as institutionally, before it found further support in France, England, and in America, particularly after the emigrations of the 1930s. The Hungarian psychoanalysts who had emigrated were just as many and as influential as their Austrian colleagues. Otto Fenichel's letters, written between 1934 and 1945 to German and Hungarian colleagues, give precise information about the internationalization of the movement (Johannes Reichmayr and EIke Muhlleitner). Biographical sketches (Peter Weibel) of various personalities from the Austrian and Hungarian psychoanalytic scenes show the amazing diversity of the psychoanalytical schools, from individual psychology through the psychology of the self to ego psychology; the intensive mental and human network; and the dynamic (as well as occasionally dramatic and tragic) biographies of those involved in the founding phase of psychoanalysis (Otto Gross, Viktor Tausk, Bruno Bettelheim, Hermine Hug-Hellmuth, Jakob Levy Moreno, Wilhelm Reich, Wilhelm Stekel, Lipot Szondi, and Fritz Wittels). The biographies go beyond the narrower psychoanalytical circle and also deal with experimental psychoanalysts, ethno psychoanalysts, etc.
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Reichmayr, J. , Mühlleitner, E. , Weibel, P. (2005). Psychoanalysis actionism, in Beyond art: a third culture, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 508-545.
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