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Otto Gross, Psychoanalytical Anarchist, Erased Genius (Vol II, Heavily Revised, Expanded Edition) gathers the writings, fragments, archival traces, et revolutionary psychology surrounding one of the most dangerous forgotten figures to emerge from the origins of psychoanalysis. Long eclipsed by Freud and Jung, Gross drifted instead through anarchism, erotic revolt, Monte Verità, anti-authoritarian philosophy, revolutionary psychology, and the subterranean intellectual currents of early twentieth-century Europe.
Physician, psychoanalyst, addict, exile, anarchist, fugitive, et relentless critic of repression, Gross argued that authority survives not merely through governments or institutions, but through the unconscious itself. Decades before later anti-psychiatry, sexual radicalism, or anti-authoritarian psychology emerged, he was already tracing the connections between neurosis, patriarchy, obedience, family structure, morality, et civilization itself.
This new volume, once a small zine, now entirely revised and in book digest form, follows Gross through:
psychoanalysis and rebellion
his philosophical affinities with Max Stirner
the buried radicalism beneath early psychoanalysis
the feverish atmosphere of Monte Verità
revolutionary lectures and fragments
institutional erasure
untranslated writings
the strange afterlife of “non-persons” pushed to the margins of intellectual history
Rather than treating Gross as merely tragic or eccentric, this edition approaches him as something far more unsettling: a partially erased thinker whose questions remain unresolved.
No longer a zine but a 50 page, perfect bound,softcover book. Completely revised by Fiona V. and Marina St. James. Featuring rare photographs, archival materials, reconstructed intellectual context, new Bacchus Editions writings, deeper research, et new translations underway. Otto Gross reads less like conventional biography than a recovered dossier from beneath the managed surfaces of modern history.
For information on the translation project, Otto Gross, visit the translations page and Otto’s unique page.
Limited physical edition.
Otto Gross, Psychoanalytical Anarchist, Erased Genius (Vol II, Heavily Revised, Expanded Edition) gathers the writings, fragments, archival traces, et revolutionary psychology surrounding one of the most dangerous forgotten figures to emerge from the origins of psychoanalysis. Long eclipsed by Freud and Jung, Gross drifted instead through anarchism, erotic revolt, Monte Verità, anti-authoritarian philosophy, revolutionary psychology, and the subterranean intellectual currents of early twentieth-century Europe.
Physician, psychoanalyst, addict, exile, anarchist, fugitive, et relentless critic of repression, Gross argued that authority survives not merely through governments or institutions, but through the unconscious itself. Decades before later anti-psychiatry, sexual radicalism, or anti-authoritarian psychology emerged, he was already tracing the connections between neurosis, patriarchy, obedience, family structure, morality, et civilization itself.
This new volume, once a small zine, now entirely revised and in book digest form, follows Gross through:
psychoanalysis and rebellion
his philosophical affinities with Max Stirner
the buried radicalism beneath early psychoanalysis
the feverish atmosphere of Monte Verità
revolutionary lectures and fragments
institutional erasure
untranslated writings
the strange afterlife of “non-persons” pushed to the margins of intellectual history
Rather than treating Gross as merely tragic or eccentric, this edition approaches him as something far more unsettling: a partially erased thinker whose questions remain unresolved.
No longer a zine but a 50 page, perfect bound,softcover book. Completely revised by Fiona V. and Marina St. James. Featuring rare photographs, archival materials, reconstructed intellectual context, new Bacchus Editions writings, deeper research, et new translations underway. Otto Gross reads less like conventional biography than a recovered dossier from beneath the managed surfaces of modern history.
For information on the translation project, Otto Gross, visit the translations page and Otto’s unique page.
Limited physical edition.