Freud’s Principal Case Studies Revisited Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysts Reconsider the Legacy

Abstracts

The Freud Lacan institute (FLi) Lectures Series

Notes on the Editors

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction   

HELENA TEXIER AND EVE WATSON                                                                                                              

DORA
Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria

1 Hysteria, History, Her Story: Freud’s Dora

OLGA COX CAMERON

2 Return to Dora, Again and Again

JAMIESON WEBSTER

YOUNG HOMOSEXUAL WOMAN
Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman

3 Gender Anxiety as a Symptom of the Analyst

ANOUCHKA GROSE

4 Girl, Interrupted

PATRICIA GHEROVICI

LITTLE HANS
Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy

5 Horses for Courses: Psychoanalysis and a Small Boy

CAROL OWENS

6 Little Hans in Context

KRISTEN HENNESSY

THE RATMAN
Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis

7 What We Can Still Learn from the Rat Man

ASTRID GESSERT

8 Freud’s Knight

GUY LE GAUFEY

THE WOLF MAN
From the History of an Infantile Neurosis

9 The Wolf Man, Invented

ANNIE G. ROGERS

10 The Wolf Man and Psychosis in the Post-Oedipal Era

RIK LOOSE

JUDGE SCHREBER
Psychoanalytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia

11 The Form and Matter of Hallucinations in Schreber’s Message Phenomena

LEON S. BRENNER

12 Judge Schreber: A Neuralgic Point of Social Tensions

ROLF D. FLOR

TO CONCLUDE

Reading Freud’s Case Studies Today

ANNE WORTHINGTON

Biography

Helena Texier is a psychoanalyst in private practice. She was longtime editor of THE LETTER: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis. She has been involved in psychoanalytic training and has been Chair of the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI). She is a director of the Freud Lacan institute (FLi), Dublin.

Eve Watson is involved in psychoanalytic practice, training, and research in Dublin, Ireland. Her co-edited books include Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice (Routledge) and Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory. She is the academic director of the Freud Lacan institute (FLi), Dublin.

"This marvellous collection of essays sheds new light on Freud’s classic case histories, offering new interpretations and perspectives and bringing out the richness and depth of Freud’s work. The commentaries are not only important in rereading Freud but will be inspiring for practitioners working today, facing many of the same questions and problems in their clinical work." – Darian Leader, psychoanalyst and author, London, UK

"These careful readings unpack what it takes to make a great case for psychoanalysis, while insisting on the singularity of each subject who appeared on the scene at the dawn of the talking cure." – Ian Parker, psychoanalyst, Manchester, UK

"Freud’s Principal Case Studies Revisited offers a fresh re-examination of Freud’s iconic cases through a contemporary psychoanalytic lens, demonstrating how his insights remain crucial today and showing how these continue to inspire, offering a dynamic, evolving framework that keeps psychoanalytic practice alive and responsive in the twenty-first century." – Dries G. M. Dulsster, educational supervisor, psychoanalyst and author, Ghent University, Belgium

"With these thought-provoking case commentaries by leading figures in psychoanalysis, rereading Freud’s principal case studies has never felt so timely or engaging! Instead of simply reinforcing what we thought we already knew about Freud’s classic cases, these essays invite us to consider crucial issues in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice." – Stephanie Swales, psychoanalyst and Assistant Professor of Psychotherapy, Dublin City University, Ireland

"Seldom do we have the opportunity to see historical case material rendered as relevant – as urgent – as we find in this luminous collection. Not only is Freud shown to be our contemporary, but these re-readings, with Lacanian conceptualisations, are how Freud’s cases will be taught and understood in the future. A dream-team of contributors and a vital addition to key texts on the Freudian practice of psychoanalysis." – Derek Hook, Professor of Psychology, Duquesne University, USA, author of Six Moments in Lacan