Freud's 'Outstanding' Colleague/Jung's 'Twin Brother': the suppressed psychoanalytic and political significance of Otto Gross

摘要

Stated simply, this book is about Otto Gross and reclaiming his place as one of the most innovate and creative minds within the psychoanalytic movement. Of particular interest for Jungian scholarly studies is Heuer's exploration of the extent to which Gross influenced Jung and his ideas (Heuer, 2017, p. 58). We learn more about the failed mutual analysis between the two pioneers, the underlying intention of Jung's mistaken diagnosis of Gross when he was a patient at the Burgh?lzli, his unacknowledged impact on depth psychology and the lengths to which many have gone to minimize his contribution. Gross has been written out of the field's history and Heuer's text is a corrective to this maltreatment. Yet the book is, in many ways, so much more than this. Included in the analysis is a moving exploration of the author's own subjectivity, one rarely seen in academic publications. Heuer not only delineates his path to Gross and the numinosity that pulled him towards a lifetime of scholarly attention to Gross's work, but argues that such subjectivity is crucial to what he has termed a trans-historical approach. Describing his methodology, he writes.