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American Imago

journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ3656266 ↗
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American Imago is an academic journal established in 1939 by Sigmund Freud and Hanns Sachs as the successor to their and Otto Rank's 1912 journal Imago. It seeks to explore the role of psychoanalysis in contemporary cultural, literary, and social theory, while also considering issues related to anthropology, philosophy, politics, cultural studies, history, art history, musicology, education, and gender studies.

The current editor-in-chief of the journal is Jane Hanenberg. Past editors include Murray M. Schwartz, Louis Rose, Hanns Sachs, Harry Slochower, and George B. Wilbur. The journal is published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939, 1912—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1939. Its strongest next move is a source search built around American, Imago and journal.
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This entry incorporates text from “American Imago” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.