Questions for Freud

The Secret History of Psychoanalysis

By: Nicholas Rand, Maria Torok

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Paperback | 16 October 2000 | Edition Number 1

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With all the intrigue and twists of a mystery, Questions for Freud uncovers the paradoxes that riddle psychoanalysis today and traces them to Freud's vacillation at key points in his work--and from there to a traumatic event in Freud's life.

What role did censored family history play in shaping Freud's psychological inquiries, promoting and impeding them by turns? With this question in mind, Nicholas Rand and Maria Torok develop a new biographical and conceptual approach to psychoanalysis, one that outlines Freud's contradictory theories of mental functioning against the backdrop of his permanent lack of insight into crucial and traumatic aspects of his immediate family's life. Taking us through previously unpublished documents and Freud's dreams, his clinical work and institutional organization, the authors show how a shameful event in 1865 that shook Freud and his family can help explain the internal clashes that later beset his work--on the origins of neurosis, reality, trauma, fantasy, sexual repression, the psychoanalytic study of literature, and dream interpretation.

Steeped in the history, theory, and practice of psychoanalysis, this book offers a guide to the wary, a way of understanding the flaws and contradictions of Freud's thought without losing sight of its significance. This book will alter the terms of the current debate about the standing of psychoanalysis and Freud.

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Makes for a lively and challenging read. -- Paul Roazen Toronto Globe and Mail

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Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction: Why Question Freud?	p. 1
Fundamental Contradictions of Freudian Thought
Dream Interpretation: Free Association or Universal Symbolism?	p. 9
The Concept of Psychical Reality and Its Traps	p. 24
Psychoanalysis in the Eye of Literature
Applied Psychoanalysis in Question	p. 47
A Case Study in Literary Psychoanalysis: Jensen's Gradiva	p. 54
The Distortions of Psychoanalysis: Freud versus Jensen	p. 76
Transmissions of Psychoanalysis
Censorship and Secrets in the Historical Topography of Psychoanalysis	p. 97
The Setbacks of Catharsis: Emmy von N.	p. 108
Neutralizing Constructive Criticism: Freud Faced with Ferenczi's Research on Trauma	p. 115
Gaining Insight into Freud
Methodological Issues	p. 139
The Freud Family's Disaster Seen through the Original Documents	p. 145
Freud's Self-Analysis and the Field of Biographical Studies	p. 156
Freud's Dreams: Witnesses to His Family Disaster	p. 166
The Secret of Psychoanalysis	p. 219
Conclusion	p. 223
Notes	p. 227
Index	p. 235
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