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- Title
Introduzione alla problematica degli idioti.
- Authors
Rothschild, Berthold
- Abstract
The psychoanalysts, as intellectuals, unwittingly might have the role of "useful idiots", i.e., in the sense of serving the interests of a given system of power or values which they apparently oppose, thus abandoning a critical conception of psychoanalysis. As is well known, the expression "useful idiots" is attributed to Stalin, who used it to define a certain type of intellectuals. The possible role of psychoanalysts as "useful idiots" is discussed in detail in its various declinations and implications, also in the light of the vicissitudes of the movement of leftist psychoanalysts. This paper was read at the Third Meeting of the "International Psychoanalytic Network" (Internationale Psychoanalytische Vernetzung) entitled "Are idiots still useful?", held at the Palazzo delle Stelline, Milan, Italy, June 3-4, 1988.
- Subjects
MILAN (Italy); PSYCHOANALYSTS; PSYCHOANALYSIS; STALIN, Joseph, 1879-1953; INTELLECTUALS; SOCIOLOGY; READING
- Publication
Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, 2022, Vol 56, Issue 1, p119
- ISSN
0394-2864
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3280/PU2022-001014