Dr Otto Gross (1877 - 1920) A maverick early disciple of Freud who rebelled against his teacher, became an anarchist and joined the utopian Ascona community. A champion of an early form of anti-psychiatry and sexual liberation, he also developed an anarchist form of depth psychology (rejecting the civilising necessity of psychological repression proposed by Freud) and adopted a similarly modified form of the proto feminist neo-pagan theories of Johann Jakob Bachofen with which he attempted to reverse history back to a 'golden age'. He was subsequently ostracized and his history erased by the psychoanalytic and psychiatric establisments. He died in poverty in 1920. Sigmund Freud His famous couch Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology, a movement that popularized the theory that unconscious motives control much behavior. ... Anarchism is a generic term describing various political philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of hierarchy and imposed authority. ... Ascona is a town of some 5,000 people in southern Switzerland, on the shore of Lake Maggiore in the canton of Ticino. ... Beginning in the 1960s, a movement called anti-psychiatry claimed that psychiatric patients are not ill but are individuals that do not share the same consensus reality as most people in society. ... The sexual revolution was a substantial change in sexual morality and sexual behaviour throughout the West in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... Depth psychology is a broad term that refers to any psychological approach examining the depth (the hidden or deeper parts) of human experience. ... Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ... Neopaganism (sometimes Neo-Paganism, meaning New Paganism) is a heterogeneous group of religions which attempt to revive ancient, mainly European pre-Christian religions. ... The Swiss Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815–1887), is most often connected with his theory of matriarchy, or Mutterrecht, the title of his seminal 1861 book This presented a radically new view of the role of women in a broad range of ancient societies. ... The Golden Age by Pietro da Cortona. ...

Greatly influenced by the philosophy of Nietzsche and the political theories of Kropotkin, he in turn influenced the likes of D H Lawrence (through his affair with Frieda Weekley), Franz Kafka and many other artists, including the founders of Berlin Dada. His influence on psychology was limited by his deletion from its history, however Carl Jung claimed his entire worldview changed when he attempted to analyse Gross, and partially had the tables turned on him. And it is likely that maverick psychologists such as Wilhelm Reich and Erich Fromm many of whose ideas mirror those Gross owe some hidden debt to him. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900) was a highly influential German philosopher. ... Peter Kropotkin Prince Peter Alexeievich Kropotkin (Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин) ( December 9, 1842 - February 8, 1921) was one of Russias foremost anarchists and one of the first advocates of what he called anarchist communism: the model of society he advocated for most of his life was that of a communist... D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was one of the most important, certainly one of the most controversial, English writers of the 20th century, who wrote novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters. ... Frieda von Richthofen (August 11, 1879 - August 11, 1956), a distant relative of the Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen, became famous as the wife of the British novelist D. H. Lawrence. ... Kafka redirects here. ... Cover of the first edition of the publication, Dada. ... Carl Jungs autobiographical work Memories , Dreams and Reflections, Fontana edition Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875 – June 6, 1961) (IPA:) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology. ... Dr. Wilhelm Reich Wilhelm Reich (March 24, 1897–November 3, 1957) was a Jewish-Austrian psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author, who was trained in Vienna by Sigmund Freud. ... Erich Fromm Erich Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was an internationally renowned German-American psychologist and humanistic philosopher. ...

More speculatively as a Bohemian drug user, from early youth, who joined a Volkish community, he is sometimes credited a founding grandfather of Counterculture. Bohemians are inhabitants of Bohemia, Czech Republic. ... REDIRECT Völkisch_movement ... In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe a cultural group whose values and norms run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of political opposition or swimming against the tide. ...

The Otto Gross Society is dedicated to preserving his work. http://www.ottogross.org