The Vicissitudes of Psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia, 1930-1980

Lizaveta van Munsteren

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English

Routledge
22 August 2025

Historiography; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Psychotherapy

Series: The History of Psychoanalysis Series

This book considers the changing fortunes of psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia from 1930 to 1980.

Approaching social history in a psychoanalytic key, Lizaveta van Munsteren argues that the growing split between official and informal languages of the time produced multiple strategies to keep alive the conversation around prohibited subjects. Through original archival research on figures such as Bluma Zeigarnik, Alexander Luria, Filipp Bassin and Dmitry Uznadze, van Munsteren offers a more nuanced understanding of Soviet studies of the unconscious and the role of language in the formation of the mind and in mental disturbances. This book makes a significant contribution to the historiography of psychoanalysis and to the study of the cultural influence of psychoanalysis and its interdisciplinary engagements.

The Vicissitudes of Psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia, 1930-1980 will appeal to historians of psychoanalysis and psychology in Soviet Russia, psychosocial researchers and anyone interested in the critical history of psychoanalysis.

By: Lizaveta van Munsteren
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 360g
ISBN: 9781032845937
ISBN 10: 1032845937
Series: The History of Psychoanalysis Series
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 22 August 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Histories of psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia and its Discontents 2. Freud in the Public Discourse 3. Zeigarnik, Luria and Vygotsky. Building pathopsychology 4. Luria's Turn to Psychophysiology, Language and Consciousness 5. Soviet Unconscious: Uznadze, Bassin et al Epilogue Bibliography

Lizaveta van Munsteren, PhD, clinician and academic with a long-standing interest in psychoanalytic theory and history. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the FREEPSY project at the University of Essex, UK, working on theoretical formulations of the psychoanalytic frame in free clinics, and archives of free clinics in Vienna and Budapest.

Reviews for The Vicissitudes of Psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia, 1930-1980

'Lizaveta van Munsteren’s new study provides important new insights. This thoughtful, well researched book will interest anyone concerned with the history of ‘the talking cure’, and the politics of the human sciences in the Soviet empire.' Daniel Pick, professor emeritus, Birkbeck, University of London; training analyst, the British Psychoanalytical Society 'This comprehensive and thorough study by Lizaveta van Munsteren illustrates how Freudian ideas were denied and removed in the Soviet Union. The book then effectively describes the 'return of the repressed'. Psychoanalysis re-emerged in the work of great and unforgettable figures in the history of Soviet psychology.' Alberto Angelini, psychoanalyst, Sapienza University, National Film School (CSC), Rome, Italy