Transformations of Psychoanalysis in the USSR and Post-Soviet Russia (the late 1980s – the early 2000s): Institutions, Discourses, Ideologies

Student: Roman Mamin

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2024

Using the presuppositions of Cambridge intellectual history, French post-structuralism, British critical psychology, and post-Marxist discourse analysis, I problematise the discursive, institutional, and ideological transformations of psychoanalysis that took place in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia between the late 1980s and the early 2000s. The analysis of periodicals, legislation, records, personal sources and scientific literature demonstrates that the signifier ‘psychoanalysis’ did not carry an unambiguous meaning in the period under study; at the same time, attempts to make it part of the national ideology failed. Nevertheless, the history of the ‘revival’ of Freud's ideas had a strong influence on the era of the 1990s.

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