[Psychoanalysis, romantic nature philosophy and German idealistic thinking]

Abstract

The author examines the historical roots of Freud-revision at the Stuttgart Institute of Psychotherapy and Depth Psychology during post-war times. There had been strivings then for a synthesis of Freud's materialistic analytic theory, the holistic worldly-spiritual theory especially of C. G. Jung and philosophical anthropology. The author suggests that this revision of Freud's theory and thoughts is based on specifically German traditions of romantic and idealistic thinking which predestined the willingness of psychoanalysts to participate in the integration of psychotherapeutic schools being prescribed by the Nazi-regime and also having determined the continuation of this "synoptic" project after the end of the "Göring-Institut".