GERMANY ON THE EAST-WEST COUCH

The author discusses some types of psychoanalytical publications which deal with German unification and its consequences. He also takes into consideration some psychological publications which are not psychoana lytical, but might be of interest for methodological and substantive r easons. He demonstrates that many of these studies are just a kind of pseudosocial psychology because of their restricted psychological focu s, which excludes social theoretical reasoning. This might be the reas on why some of these publications are loaded with ideology.