1st Edition

Freud at Work On the History of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice, with an Analysis of Freud's Patient Record Books

By Ulrike May Copyright 2018

    Presenting a new frame of reference, the author argues that Freud's theories are not the result of his genius alone but were developed in exchange with colleagues and students, which is not always apparent at first glance. Replete with examples, the author reconstructs who the theories were addressed to and the discursive context they originally belonged to, thus presenting fresh and surprising readings of Freud's oeuvre. The book also offers a glimpse into Freud's practice. For the first time, Freud's patient record books which he kept for ten years, are being reviewed, offering readers the hard facts about the length and frequency of Freud's analyses.

    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.