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?
On 23rd July 1908 Sigmund Freud wrote to his colleague Karl Abraham: "Rest assured that if my name were Oberhuber an obviously non-Jewish name, in spite of everything my innovations would have met ...with far less resistance."From its beginning, psychoanalysis has been seen as a Jewish affair, and psychoanalysts have always been afraid of ending up in the position of the Jew - that of the outsider. In A Dangerous Legacy: Judaism and Psychoanalysis Hans Reijzer examines how psychoanalysts have managed that fear, in the recent past and in the present. During his research, which led him to Vienna, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Jerusalem, Hamburg, and Durban, Reijzer encountered malicious as well as enlightening statements, situations, and incidents. A Dangerous Legacy is a striking study of an interesting area of research. Reijzer's conclusion is surprising: stereotypes about Jews are a factor not only in the everyday world but also in the psychoanalytic world as soon as Jews take part in it.
El lector hispanoparlante interesado en psicoanálisis se encuentra, desde hace unas dos décadas, en desventaja respecto de sus pares en otras distintas lenguas. Los manuscritos y borradores de Freud ...recientemente encontrados o desclasificados no se han visto mayormente volcados a nuestra lengua. El presente artículo pone a disposición el primer resultado de un proyecto de investigación en historia del psicoanálisis consistente en la selección, ordenación, datación y traducción al español de manuscritos inéditos de Sigmund Freud recientemente desclasificados por la Biblioteca del Congreso de Estados Unidos. Se ofrece la primera traducción, análisis de contenido y datación de un documento que corresponde a un momento de inflexión en el curso de las hipótesis teórico-clínicas del padre del psicoanálisis.
El objetivo de este artículo es acercar la teoría de la performatividad de género de Judith Butler y el psicoanálisis de Sigmund Freud a partir de la noción de repetición. Para la autora, las ...identidades de género se producen y consolidan mediante la repetición de actos, gestos y prácticas en el interior de la matriz heterosexual y falocéntrica. Por otro lado, esta repetición no es estable e inmutable, ya que permite la subversión de las normas en las que se inserta. Del mismo modo, de acuerdo con el fundador del psicoanálisis, la repetición de lo reprimido como acto en la situación transferencial, inevitable en el tratamiento, abre la posibilidad de un cambio efectivo del analizante. En este sentido, se pretende mostrar que la concepción de la repetición como vía para el surgimiento de lo nuevo y para la transformación puede consistir en un punto de encuentro entre los pensamientos de Butler y Freud.
...Freud's writings do vary and are of more than one description, but I am speaking now of the style which predominates and characterizes the main volume of his work.) Its general character is not ...only direct and plain-spoken-simple statements without padding- but in particular it conveys vividly an awareness of his readers or hearers, as if he were speaking directly to them, and were concerned to put forward his views in a form intelligible to them. Yet he had developed this special capacity for presenting his conclusions as if he were bent on enabling the reader to take them in-so much so that it colours his whole style and gives the presentation a simplicity and lucidity (often when the content is obscure) that is peculiar to him and most rare in such work. There was a marriage in him of the seeker after existing truth and the creator giving the world a new living truth- the scientist and the artist in one. First he thought of it as a storehouse of memories; then he discovered its character as the mental side of the instincts we are born with, those dynamic forces in us which issue in all our emotions, actions and behaviour, thoughts and feelings, and activate them.
'This book provides a powerfully argued and beautifully constructed account of the early development of the child in the family context from a psychoanalytic perspective. It draws particularly on the ...theoretical trajectory from Freud to Klein and Bion. It is written in a clear, accessible and jargon-free style and it is evident that the author wishes to reach and interest a wide audience of parents and others involved in the upbringing of children in the broadest sense. The growth of the child's mind is the story she wants to tell. The wealth of detailed examples drawn from the systematic observation of babies and young children, from more everyday observation of children's behaviour in family and social contexts and from a range of clinical interventions draws the reader into a vivid understanding of the author's conceptual framework and provides many memorable vignettes of children's lives.
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.
According to the "contiguity" rule of psychoanalysis· (Freud, 1905, 1901, 39), the proximity of "paper on technique" to "large plaster cast of Michelangelo's Moses" suggests strongly that there is ...indeed a causal connection. Freud's first mention of the therapeutic significance of transference is in his 1905 Postscript to Fragment о fan analysis of a Case of Hysteria: ...it is only after the transference has been resolved that a patient arrives at a sense of conviction of the validity of the connections which have been constructed during the analysis. ...Transference, which seems ordained to be the greatest obstacle to psycho-analysis, becomes its most powerful ally, if the presence can be detected each time and explained to the patient. Forover four decades, until retirement, he was in private practice in Elizabethtown, KY., where he also held the position of chief psychologist of a regional mental health center for five years (1968-1973).
After being the subject of many studies up until 1914, totemism seemed to disappear from the literature. The publication of Freud’s work Totem and Taboo was initially greeted with silence, and ...subsequently with critical and hostile reactions. C. Lévi-Strauss was one of the few to devote a book to totemism but considered it as an illusion, although a number of prominent members of the English school of Social Anthropology contested this view, describing the direction adumbrated by Freud’s enquiry as “highly pertinent”.
Totemism appears in Freud’s work as a way of dealing with one of the canonical forms of human destructiveness, namely parricide. Why did eminent men find it impossible to utilise Freud’s book and those studies that followed it in the interwar period?
The mass murders in Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, however different they may have been, both generated a profound sense of horror that made their consequences largely unrepresentable for Europeans for more than thirty years. Did this delay, and the attitudes of the following generations towards authority, result from an unconscious logic of “resistance” aimed at re-establishing refusals that did not take place at the time? The Western world seems to have forgotten the strength of the mixed family ties of tribes, casts, and religions that are in fact at work in the psychic life of a great number of men and women in the world.
