Imago (magazine)
Imago: Journal for the Application of Psychoanalysis to the Humanities was a journal published by Sigmund Freud that appeared quarterly in Vienna and Leipzig from 1912 to 1937 .
History and direction
Otto Rank and Hanns Sachs were co-editors of the journal and it was published by Hugo Heller in the International Psychoanalytical Publishing House .
The name goes back to the 1906 autobiographical novel Imago by Carl Spitteler . With the publication of the journal Freud wanted to establish psychoanalysis as a way of seeing and thinking that also plays a role outside of medicine for the understanding of culture and society and for the arts. The magazine met this goal through both the choice of topics and the choice of authors. In addition to doctors , psychologists and lay analysts , these were also theologians , sociologists , anthropologists , philosophers , cultural scientists and writers .
The magazine was aimed at both the specialist audience and interested laypeople and became the publisher's most successful medium until the publisher was dissolved due to the influence of the National Socialists . The magazine was continued in 1939 by Hanns Sachs and with the collaboration of Anna Freud in the USA under the name American Imago and by merging with the international magazine for psychoanalysis , which is published quarterly to this day.
The changing subtitles show the shift in the focus or the interests of the editors: the years up to 1926 had the addition of the magazine for the application of psychoanalysis to the humanities ; from 1927 to 1932 the subtitle was: magazine for the application of psychoanalysis to the natural and scientific Humanities and from 1933 then journal for psychoanalytic psychology, its border areas and applications . From 1933 a category of literature reviews was also included, in which, in addition to the psychoanalytic specialist literature, a wide range of works from the border areas were included.
Authors and content
In addition to the three editors themselves, the international authors include Karl Abraham , Alice and Michael , Willy Bardas , Marie Bonaparte , Max Deri , Helene Deutsch , Sándor Ferenczi , Otto Fenichel , Eduard Hitschmann , Hermine Hug-Hellmuth , Ernest Jones , Ernst Kris , René Laforgue , Thomas Mann , Oskar Pfister , Hans Prinzhorn , Theodor Reik , Lou Andreas-Salomé , Herbert Silberer , Sabina Spielrein , René Spitz , Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham , Nelly Wolffheim , Hans Zulliger and Stefan Zweig .
The journal published psychoanalytic articles on philosophy and religion , pedagogy , biographical and criminalistics , on literature , on myths and fairy tales and linguistic issues, on the fine arts , music , ethnology , participated in socio-political debates and sought connections to scientific issues. There are also clinical and everyday psychological questions. In the German-speaking world, this broad cultural studies orientation was continued by the magazine Psyche after the Second World War .
literature
- Gisela Behrendt: Psychoanalytic philosophy criticism. The philosophy-critical contributions of "IMAGO" . Dissertation at the University of Düsseldorf. The Blue Owl, Essen 1986. ISBN 978-3-924368-92-0 .
- Jens Malte Fischer (Ed.) Psychoanalytical Literature Interpretation. Articles from Imago, magazine for the application of psychoanalysis to the humanities (1912-1937) . Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1980. ISBN 978-3-423-04363-2 .
- Bernd Oberhoff: Psychoanalysis and Music: Taking Stock. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2002 ISBN 978-3-898-06145-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Imago in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Imago German National Library
- ↑ Imago International Psychoanalytic Publishing with titles from all articles and volumes. Retrieved December 12, 2017
- ^ Imago University of Heidelberg . Retrieved December 12, 2017
- ↑ American Imago jhu Press . Retrieved December 12, 2017
- ^ Imago Reprint Sigmund-Freud-Buchhandlung . Retrieved December 12, 2017