Race vanished from psychoanalysis precisely after the Nazi diaspora

Evidence

Issues of race and ethnicity were thus current, if largely disavowed within the psychoanalytic circle itself. Long before Kristallnacht and the book burnings, long before the trains began carrying Jews back from their asylum in the West to torture and death in the East, race was the largely unacknowledged touchstone of the early psychoanalytic debates. Yet with the fall of Vienna to the Nazis and the dispersal of the founding psychoanalysts to other countries, mainly of course to Britain and the USA (but also in some cases further afield to Latin America and South Africa), race paradoxically disappeared from the agenda. In so far as psychoanalytic concepts were applied to the analysis of racism it was largely by others, by sociologists, anthropologists, or historians, themselves often Jews and exiles from Nazism (viz. the Frankfurt School/New School for Social Research) who were sympathetic to Freud’s ideas. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1254 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Race was central to early psychoanalysis but vanished from it after the Vienna dispersal — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1254; Psychoanalysis was born from migration and racism in multicultural Vienna; Psychoanalysis abandoned race as a topic after its founders fled to the West — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1254 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Psychoanalysis abandoned race as a topic after its founders fled to the West #expands (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1254