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KMID : 0385320060170010075
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Journal of Korean Psychoanalytic Society
2006 Volume.17 No. 1 p.75 ~ p.87
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Note on the Historical Background of Psychoanalytic Movement
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Lee Byung-Wook
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Abstract
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The psychoanalytic movement had not started smoothly from the beginning. Freud might have been perplexed and lonely between social pressure and internal disharmony. The most serious barrier to psychoanalytic development was anti-Semitism deeply rooted in the Western culture. Traditional Christianity antagonized human sexuality, and asceticism was regarded as avaluable virtue. Freud’s libido theory including infantile sexuality has been notorious and blamed by many religious people as evil Satanic messages. Rationalistically reason-based Western philosophy also disregarded and devalued Freud’s discovery of the Unconcious. Traditional medicines and many universities rejected psychoanalysis at that time. Political and ideological oppressions from the right and left including Nazism and communism thoroughly swept psychoanalysis through all of Europe. Nevertheless it is marvelous that psychoanalysis has survived persistently and perhaps it might disappear in the world without settling down in the democratic society. Therefore psychoanalytic movement was a kind of movement for knowledge preservation, for which reason Freud called it a movement. Although his theory was not perfect, he paved the way for further theoretical development. In addition, it is evident that his revolutionary works powerfully stimulated the naive psychology of Western intellectuals. I think that the pre-Freud and post-Freud world seem to be quite different in terms of the epistemological methodology.
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KEYWORD
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Psychoanalysis, Freud, Movement, History
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