1st Edition

Landscapes of the Dark History, Trauma, Psychoanalysis

By Jonathan Sklar Copyright 2011
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

In this important new collection of essays, Jonathan Sklar argues that the founding tension between Freud's commitment to interpretation and Ferenczi's extra parameter of 'being in the experience' has a central place/key role to play in contemporary psychoanalytic debate, and that this tension can best be understood by returning to the place of trauma in psychoanalysis. Taking this debate into the... Read more
Prologue , Introduction , The rebirth of history and trauma in psychoanalysis , Formulation of interpretations in clinical practice , Hysteria and mourning—a psychosomatic case , Trauma, psychosis, and regression: the psychoanalytic treatment of a schizophrenic patient , Daydreams, dreams, and trauma , Psychosomatics and technique , Somatic resistance to termination: the contemporary use of “active” technique , The life cycle of the psychoanalyst: reflections on a seminar for newly qualified analysts 1 , Epilogue

Biography

Jonathan Sklar