1st Edition
Freud at Work On the History of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice, with an Analysis of Freud's Patient Record Books
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ABBREVIATIONS
SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
PART I
FREUD AND HIS STUDENTS
CHAPTER ONE
How the concept of narcissism came into being: from Ellis and Näcke to Sadger and Freud
CHAPTER TWO
Abraham’s discovery of the "bad mother" : a contribution to the history of the theory of depression
CHAPTER THREE
From anger to reflection: remarks on Freud’s commentary on an early paper by Karl Abraham (1907)
CHAPTER FOUR
Karl Abraham's revolution of 1916: from sensual sucking to the oral-aggressive wish of destruction
CHAPTER FIVE
Towards Karl Abraham’s "A Short Study of the Development of the Libido" (1924): August Stärcke’s contribution to the theory of orality
CHAPTER SIX
On the early history of anal erotism (1905–1924)
CHAPTER SEVEN
Thinking up the death drive: remarks on Freud’s research projects, his ambitions and his vision of the primacy of sexuality
PART II
FREUD AND HIS PATIENTS
CHAPTER EIGHT
Fourteen hundred hours of analysis with Freud: Viktor von Dirsztay
CHAPTER NINE
Freud’s patient calendars (1910–1920): On the duration and frequency of 36 of Freud’s analyses
SOURCES
REFERENCES
INDEX
Biography
Ulrike May, PhD, is a practising psychoanalyst in Berlin and a member of the Karl-Abraham-Institute Berlin, the German Psychoanalytic Association, and the International Psychoanalytical Association. She has published two books: Freuds frühe klinische Theorie (1894–1896): Wiederentdeckung und Rekonstruktion and (together with Elke Mühlleitner) Edith Jacobson: Sie selbst und ihrer Objekte. Leben, Werk, Erinnerungen, as well as numerous papers on the history of psychoanalytic theory and practice. Together with Michael Schröter she recently presented a critical edition of Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle, including the first version of 1919.
