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This book is unique in its focus on multiple memoirs by patients of Freud and presents a fresh, even startling, close-up look at psychoanalysis as a clinical practice and as a rigorous discourse and offers a new vision of Freud's strengths and, at times, defects.
List of contents
Prologue 01. Psychoanalytic Space and Writing Space 02. Fragments of an Analysis with Freud by Joseph Wortis: Criticism and Longing 03. Diary of My Analysis with Sigmund Freud by Smiley Blanton: From a Deadlock of Silence to the Act of Writing 04. My Analysis with Freud: Reminiscences by Abram Kardiner: Memory, Mourning, and Writing 05. An American Psychiatrist in Vienna, 1935–1937, and His Sigmund Freud by John Dorsey: "My Sigmund Freud" 06. The Wolf Man and Sigmund Freud by Sergei Pankejeff: Between a Case Study and a Memoir 07. Tribute to Freud by Hilda Doolittle (H. D.): Between the Analytic and the Poetic 08. The Creation of Voice in Psychoanalysis and Literature Epilogue: Psychoanalysis Terminable and Interminable
About the author
Anat Tzur Mahalel (Ph.D.) is a practicing psychoanalytically-oriented clinical psychologist, Research Fellow, Bucerius Institute for Research of German Contemporary History and Society, post-doctoral researcher in the interdisciplinary program in psychoanalysis and staff member at the advanced school for psychoanalytic psychotherapy, University of Haifa. She is in private practice in Haifa, Israel, and has published papers on the history of psychanalysis, psychoanalysis and literature, translation theory, and autobiography.
Summary
This book is unique in its focus on multiple memoirs by patients of Freud and presents a fresh, even startling, close-up look at psychoanalysis as a clinical practice and as a rigorous discourse and offers a new vision of Freud’s strengths and, at times, defects.
