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The article offers information on the "Part Two: Transfer of Theories and Institutional Regulations" session of "Remembering, Repeating and Working Through," the International Psychoanalytical Association's Congress in Berlin, Germany, in 2007. A paper by Michael Schröter presented at the session discussed the international regulation of psychoanalytic training. In another paper, author Ludger M. Hermanns talked about the reimportation of psychoanalysis to Germany after 1945.

In this paper the author offers a partial examination of the troubled history of psychoanalysis in Germany during the Nazi period. Of particular interest is the impact on psychoanalysis of its 'Jewish origins'--something denigrated by the Nazis but reclaimed by more recent Jewish and other scholars. The author traces the rapid decline of the pre-Nazi psychoanalytic institutions under the sway of a policy of appeasement and collaboration, paying particular attention to the continuation of some forms of psychoanalytic practice within the 'Göring Institute'. He suggests that a feature of this history was the anti-Semitism evidenced by some non-Jewish psychoanalysts, which revealed an antagonism towards their own positioning as followers of the 'Jewish science'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author comments on the suggestion that a work of translation intervenes - and should actually be fostered - between psychoanalytic theories, models and idioms by Gail Reed in a paper presented at the International Psychoanalytical Association's Congress in Berlin, Germany, in 2007. The author believes that the suggestion is right in more than one way, provided the many levels at which translation occurs and the many meanings this notion conveys are considered.