Video presentation of the fiction book BLOWN LIVES. A TALE FOR SPIELREIN, GROSS, ... by Giuseppe Leo

Video presentation of the fiction book BLOWN LIVES. A TALE FOR SPIELREIN, GROSS, TAUSK AND THE OTHER LOSERS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS by Giuseppe Leo Synopsis: What kind of mystery is concealed behind the suicides of these psychoanalysts: Tatiana Rosenthal, Viktor Tausk, Wilhelm Stekel, Herbert Silberer Karin Stephen, a sisterinlaw of Virginia Woolf, and a psychoanalyst herself, decides to follow the biographical tracks of these figures who were all authentic pioneers of psychoanalysis, some of them even very close to Sigmund Freud. During a stay in Zurich, Karin comes across an unpublished manuscript, written by Otto Gross, an Austrian psychoanalyst who was admitted several times to psychiatric asylums for drug addiction. Otto s papers seem to her to contain illuminating revelations about these losers of psychoanalysis, whose lives seem to be interlaced through exchanges of letters, poetry and journal fragments. But is Otto s manuscript literary falsehood or authentic In the end, Karin Stephen hers