This book, like the others in the series, presents a classic essay by Freud with discussions of the essay by prominent psychoanalysts from several countries. Analysis Terminable and Interminable is ...considered Freuds clinical legacy, summing up his sense of the potential and the limitations of psychoanalysis as a therapeutic technique. Though many have regarded this essay as pessimistic in tone, it has also been lauded for its realism and for its hard-headed look at why therapys actual outcome must always fall short of the ideal. The contributors to this volume discuss Freuds essay from many viewpoints. They place it in historical perspective (written in 1937, it reflects Freuds exposure to the savagery of Nazism), situate it in terms of Freuds personal suffering (the death of loved ones, the chronic pain of cancer), and relate his insights and observations to the major theoretical issues of the period. Most important, this volume relates Freuds essay to current issues in technique and to controversies arising from different theoretical perspectives. An introduction to the volume, written by Joseph Sandler, Ethel Spector Person, and Peter Fonagy, provides a succinct overview of the material. The book will be an invaluable teaching tool for psychoanalytic therapists of diverse backgrounds
This is the third volume in the series Contemporary Freud: Turning Points and Critical Issues, published for the International Psychoanalytical Association. Each volume presents a classic essay by ...Freud with commentaries by prominent psychoanalytic teachers and analysts from different theoretical backgrounds and geographical locations." Observations on Transference-Love " may have been inspired, say the contributors, by the unfortunate emotional involvements of two of Freud's colleagues with female patients. In his paper, Freud speaks of the inevitability of "transference-love" in every well-conducted analysis, its important therapeutic functions, and its potential hazards. Transference love is discussed in the larger context of transference in general. The essays illuminate a persistent problem in all modalities of psychotherapy: unfortunate, often tragic, enactments of erotic transference and countertransference.This volume also includes the original essay by Freud.
Besides constituting a fundamental milestone in contemporary Western thought, Sigmund Freud's monumental corpus of work laid the theoretical-technical foundations on which psychoanalysts based the ...construction and development of the comprehensive edifice in which they abide today. This edifice, so varied in tones, so heterogeneous, even contradictory at times, has stood strong because of these foundations. Indeed, this book attempts to show, through its various chapters written by psychoanalysts from different parts of the world and sustaining varied paradigms, this enriching heterogeneity coupled with the invisible thread which strings together the diversity lent to it by its Freudian foundations. One of the characteristics of the Freudian opus highlighted in this context is the fact that when we are able to study it in perspective, it is possible to glimpse a path of incessant improvement, where ideas and concepts are constantly reformulated and become more complex as clinical facts and methodological and epistemological resources call for it. Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety is the irrefutable proof of this affirmation.
Like his other papers on technique, Freud's 1913 essay "On beginning the treatment" had an enduring influence on psychoanalysts for generations to come, providing them with a solid and ...worldwide-accepted conceptual basis on how to initiate psychoanalytic treatments. After a century of clinical experience and theoretical research, are all of Freud's rules and advice still valid today?
This book investigates what was distinctive about the predisposition to psychosis Freud posited in Daniel Paul Schreber, a presiding judge in Saxonys highest court. It argues that Freuds 1911 ...Schreber text reversed the order of priority in late nineteenthcentury conceptions of the disposing causes of psychosis the objective-biological and subjective-biographical to privilege subjective disposition to psychosis, but without returning to the subjectivity of early nineteenth-century Romantic psychiatry and without obviating the legitimate claims of biological psychiatry in relation to hereditary disposition. While D. P. Schreber is the books reference point, this is not a general treatment of Schreber, or of Freuds reading of the Schreber case. It focuses rather on what was new in Freuds thinking on the disposition to psychosis, what he learned from his psychiatrist contemporaries and what he did not, and whether or not psychoanalysts have fully received his aetiology.
Presents a classic essay by Sigmund Freud, followed by discussions that set Freud's work in context and demonstrate its contemporary relevance. The contributors to this volume represent diverse ...perspectives from different regions of the psychoanalytic world.
Ethel Spector Person
Preface , Introduction , A Child Is Being Beaten (1919) , Discussion of “A Child Is Being Beaten” , Not for Barbarians , “A Child Is Being Beaten” , Humiliating Fantasies and the Pursuit of Unpleasure , Comments on Freud’s “‘A Child Is Being Beaten’: A Contribution to the Study of the Origin of Sexual Perversions” , The Scene and Its Reverse , “A Child Is Being Beaten” , “A Child Is Being Beaten” and the Battered Child , The Exceptional Position of “A Child Is Being Beaten” in the Learning and Teaching of Freud , Construction of a Fantasy
This book is a collection of papers by leading contemporary psychoanalysts who comment on the continuing important relevance of Freud's (1911) paper, Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental ...Functioning . The contributors gathered here represent current European, Latin American, and North American perspectives that elaborate the continuing value of Two Principles for present-day psychoanalytic thinking. Each author examines Freud's paper through a personal lens that is coloured by the psychoanalytic culture from which he or she comes. In each instance, the writers' chapters demonstrate the heuristic value of Two Principles for twenty-first century psychoanalytic theory and technique. A common thread that runs through all the chapters is the view that this brief paper by Freud, which he humbly introduced by stating, "The deficiencies of this short paper, which is preparatory rather than expository ...", is a masterpiece that contains within it the seeds of much of his later writing. The distinction he draws between the pleasure principle and the reality principle are profound and raise questions that still preoccupy analysis today.
Contemporary Freud , "Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning" (1911b) , Editor’s Note , Discussion of “Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning” , Filling in Freud and Klein’s maps of psychotic states of mind: Wilfred Bion’s reading of Freud’s “Formulations regarding two principles in mental functioning” , The world as it is vs. the world as I would like it to be: contemporary reflections on Freud’s “Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning” , Second thoughts on Freud’s “Two principles” , Dreaming the analytical session: between pleasure principle and reality principle , Where does the reality principle begin? The work of margins in Freud’s “Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning” , Freud’s “Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning”: its roots and development , Two principles and the possibility of emotional growth , Time is short , The quest for the real , Mental functioning and free thinking , Concluding thoughts
Gabriela Legorreta, Lawrence J Brown
This book, like the others in the series, presents a classic essay by Freud and discussions of the essay by prominent psychoanalytic teachers and analysts who differ in emphases and who come from ...different theoretical backgrounds and geographical locations. First presented as an informal lecture in 1907, "Creative Writers and Day-dreaming" pursues two lines of inquiry: it explores the origins of daydreaming and its relation to the play of children, and it investigates the creative process. Following an introduction by Ethel Spector Person, the contributors to this volume-Marcos Aguinis, Harry Trosman, Harold P. Blum, José A. Infante, Joseph Sandler and Anne-Marie Sandler, Ronald Britton, Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, Elizabeth Tabak de Bianchedi, Robert N. Emde, and Moisés Lemlij-provide commentaries on Freud's essay, explicating the twists and turns in psychoanalytic theories of fantasy and in applied psychoanalysis. Their essays place Freud's paper in historical context, describe the clinical value of daydreams and fantasies, offer a Kleinian view of fantasy, provide analytic approaches to creativity and fantasy, comment on the ambiguity caused by multiple translations of Freud's text, and reframe the idea of fantasy from a modern biological and developmental approach.
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