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In this examination of dissidence in psychoanalysis, Gedo offers acute assessments of the intellectual and personal agendas that inform the recent portraits of Freud by Sulloway, Masson, and Swales. Then, in topical studies of Sandor Ferenczi, Melanie Kl
List of contents
1. Fluctuat Nec Mergitur I. Historical Section 2. Sigmund Freud's Character and the Definition of Psychoanalysis 3. Sandor Ferenczi: The First Psychoanalytic Dissident 4. The Loyal Opposition of Louise von Salome 5. Kant's Way: The Epistemological Challenge of David Rapaport 6. The Doctrine of Melanie Klein: Vitalism, Innate Ideas, and the Subversion of Reason 7. A Hero of Our Time: The Dissidence of Heinz Kohut 8. Barred from the Promised Land: Heinz Kohut in the Wilderness 9. The Lesson of History and the Challenge of the Scientific Method II. Methodological Section 10. Caveat Lector: Psychoanalytic Theory and the Direct Observation of Behavior 11. On the Dawn of Experience: The Past Recaptured 12. The Legacy of Infancy and the Technique of Psychoanalysis 13. Relevance or Reductionism in Interpretation: A Reprise of the Psychoanalysis of Kleist's Pupper Theater 14. Epiloge: More on the Essence of Psychoanalysis: Self-Creation and Vocabularies of Moral Deliberation
About the author
John E. Gedo, M.D., retired in 1990 as Training and Supervising Analyst, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of numerous books for Analytic Press, including
The Biology of Clinical Encounters (1991) and
The Mind in Disorder (1998).
