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First published in 1947, with a second edition in 1950, this is an illuminating description of a complete Freudian analysis of a single case. From the first interview to the last the reader's attention is engrossed with the almost-normal personality of the individual who is being analysed.
List of contents
Book One: Father 1. The First Interview 2. A Glimpse of Technique 3. The First Analytical Sessions 4. The Beginning of Transference 5. Regression to Infancy 6. The Father-Fixation: (Its Emergence and its Working Through) 7. The Almighty Father 8. The Homosexual Component and the Defences Against it - With the Hint of a Deeper Heterosexual Level
Book Two: Mother 9. The Emergence of the Mother-Fixation from Beneath the Father-Fixation 10. Father Gives Place to Mother 11. Heterosexual Anxiety and Resistance 12. The Problem of Anxiety 13. The Psychology of Accidents 14. Analysis and Money 15. The Self-Sufficiency of the Anal Character 16. Transference Resistance - A Session 17. The Mother-Image
Book Three: Son 18. The Climax 19. He has Prospects of Inheriting the Mother-Image 20. Analysis of the Transference 21. The Relief of Mother-Fixation 22. The Final Stage 23. Theoretical Review. Glossary. Index.
About the author
Charles Berg (1892-1957)
Summary
First published in 1947, with a second edition in 1950, this is an illuminating description of a complete Freudian analysis of a single case. From the first interview to the last the reader’s attention is engrossed with the almost-normal personality of the individual who is being analysed.
