[lbo-talk] Review of Joseph Wortis' *Soviet Psychiatry* in "Masses and Mainstream" (September 1950)

[Michael Pugliese]

http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/jun1999/freu-j11.shtml
Intrepid thought: psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union
The nature of man himself is hidden in the deepest and darkest recesses of 
the unconscious, the elemental and the submerged. Is it not self-evident 
that the greatest efforts of inquiring thought and of creative initiative 
will move in that direction?—Trotsky

Part 1.

For so much of this century, the real history of the Soviet Union has been 
buried under a mountain of lies. In the years since its collapse, however, 
some important pieces of the historical truth have been retrieved from the 
debris. One such piece is contained in a new account of the history of 
Soviet psychoanalysis, Freud and the Bolsheviks: Psychoanalysis in Imperial 
Russia and the Soviet Union (Yale University Press) by Martin A. Miller, a 
professor at Duke University...
1. Joseph Wortis, Fragments of an Analysis with Freud (New York: 
[1954]/1963), p. 22.