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Rescuing Psychoanalysis from Freud and Other Essays in Re-Vision
By Peter L. Rudnytsky
Copyright 2011
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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In his latest groundbreaking book, the author examines the history of psychoanalysis from a resolutely independent perspective. At once spellbinding case histories and meticulously crafted gems of scholarship, Rudnytsky's essays are "re-visions" in that each sheds fresh light on its subject but they are also avowedly "revisionist" in their scepticism towards all forms of psychoanalytic orthodoxy.... Read more
Foreword -- Introduction -- Inventing Freud -- "Infantile thoughts": reading Ferenczi's Clinical Diary as a commentary on Freud's relationship with Minna Bernays -- Rescuing psychoanalysis from Freud: the common project of Stekel, Jung, and Ferenczi -- "I'm just being horrid": D. W. Winnicott and the strains of psychoanalysis -- In praise of Nina Coltart -- Rethinking King Lear: from incestuous fantasy to primitive anxieties -- The bridge across Clifton Road: Emory University and the future of psychoanalytic studies -- "Nitty-gritty issues": an interview with Eric R. Kandel
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L. Rudnytsky, Peter
