1987
An Unmastered Past: The Autobiographical Reflections of Leo Lowenthal
Leo Lowenthal; edited by Martin Jay
1987 · Book
Editions
1987
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The German documents below were checked in their published documentary editions. English quotations from Erfolgreiche Kooperation use our October 17, 2026 research translations, checked against the German and separately reviewed by AI. These are not a published English edition. The underlying archival manuscripts were not inspected.
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Sources
An Unmastered Past: The Autobiographical Reflections of Leo Lowenthal . Leo Lowenthal, An Unmastered Past: The Autobiographical Reflections of Leo Lowenthal, ed. Martin Jay (University of California Press, 1987): chapter 1, trans. Ted R. Weeks, p. 51 for psychoanalytic premises; chapter 2, trans. David Berger, pp. 53–59 for exile and journal work and pp. 68–69 for shared editorial direction. Participant retrospective account. The exact 1929 date for the psychoanalytic arrangement is attributed to Abromeit, not inferred from Lowenthal's phrase “at the end of the twenties.” Online source .