Mutual Analysis: Ferenczi, Severn, and the Origins of Trauma Theory

ISBN-13: 9781032133829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 350 str.

Peter L. Rudnytsky

Opis

Ferenczi’s mutual analysis with Elizabeth Severn is one of the most controversial and consequential episodes in the history of psychoanalysis. In this book, Peter L. Rudnytsky draws on a trove of archival sources to provide a definitive scholarly account of this experiment, which constitutes a paradigm for relational psychoanalysis.

Spis treści

Prelude: Ferenczi’s Secret Life  PART 1: Conceptions  1. Traces of a Life  2. The Metaphysical Calling  3. Much Farther Than Freudianism  4. The Psychoanalytic Severn  5. The Case of Ferenczi  6. Mother and Daughter  PART 2: Contexts  7. Polygamous Analysis  8. The End of the Affair  9. Ferenczi’s Sanity and the “Blood-Crisis”  10. Kissing Papa Ferenczi  11. Beyond Groddeck  12. The Evil Genius  PART 3: Consequences  13. For No Assignable External Reason  14. Roux’s Needle  15. The Antitraumatic in Freud  16. New Veins of Gold  Finale: A Whole Soul

O autorze

Peter L. Rudnytsky is Professor of English at the University of Florida and Head of the Department of Academic and Professional Affairs as well as Chair of the Committee on Confidentiality of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Coeditor of the History of Psychoanalysis series for Routledge and the Psychoanalytic Horizons series for Bloomsbury, he has edited Severn’s The Discovery of the Self in the Relational Perspectives series and received the Gradiva Award for Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck.