[A repetition or a new start? About the reinstalling of psychoanalysis in West Germany after the War]

The concessions which the psychoanalysts made to the Nazi regime wounded them in their psychoanalytical identity. Parallels are established here between the officialization of psychotherapy in National Socialist Germany and the attempts at officialization by the Schultz-Hencke neo-analytical circle. The behavior seems comparable, irrespective of political regimes. On the other hand, Müller-Braunschweig's effort to revive classical psychoanalysis is presented as specifically characterised by the reproduction of "places of disturbance" ("Störstellen") and is interpreted as an attempt to restore, through these repetitions, his damaged psychoanalytical identity. Thus appears the ambivalence of the officialization of psychoanalysis in a social system as an element within the psychoanalytical identity which constantly seeks to elude self-analysis.