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C. G. Jung's involvement in the professional politics of psychotherapy in Nazi Germany was not a matter only of sympathy for and collaboration with Nazism. Jung's participation in the affairs of professionally endangered and ambitious psychotherapists under the advantageous leadership of a relative of the powerful Hermann Göring was both significant and limited in time and space. While Jungians found a place at the German Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy in Berlin between 1936 and 1945, psychoanalysts and other psychotherapists-- purged of practitioners who were Jewish--advanced their interests and practice in ways that indirectly and directly supported the mobilization of German society for Nazi purposes of conquest and war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Provides information about the collection of essays in a special issue of the "International Forum of Psychoanalysis," edited by Zvi Lothane to place the history of psychoanalysis in the era of fascism into its full European context. Involvement of psychoanalysts and historians on the fate of psychoanalysis in Germany after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933; Field of psychodynamic theory and praxis; Views on the interdependence between the uniformities of structure and the peculiarities of culture.

Deals with the use of psychoanalytic approach in understanding the life and work of the film director Stanley Kubrick. Similarities between psychoanalysis and motion picture film; Beliefs of Kubrick; Analysis of the works of Kubrick.