The Psychoanalytic Century

by Scharff, David E.

• ISBN13: 9781892746542
• ISBN10: 1892746549
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Random House Inc

Summary

Represents Freud's vision refracted through a prism of a century's legacy. Examines new views of hysteria as the diagnostic entity through which Freud invented psychoanalysis. Also looks at the contribution of Freud and analysis to the theory of love and clinical approaches to love relations, literature, visual arts, international diplomacy, and race.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Contributors	xi
Introduction: The Analytic Century	xv
David E. Scharff
Part I History and Psychoanalysis	1	(36)
Falling into History: Freud's Case of Frau Emmy von N	5	(16)
Michael Roth
Freud, Freudians, Anti-Freudians: Whose Freud Is It?	21	(16)
Ernst Falzeder
Part II Theory Reconsidered	37	(86)
Freud Conserved and Revised: An Interview with David Scharff	41	(20)
Otto F. Kernberg
The Right Brain As the Neurobiological Substratum of Freud's Dynamic Unconscious	61	(28)
Allan N. Schore
Modern Revisions of Freud's Concept of Transference	89	(14)
Steven Ellman
Freud and Object Relations Theory	103	(20)
Jill Savege Scharff
Part III Learning from Hysteria	123	(56)
Dora: Freud's Pygmalion?	125	(14)
Imre Szecsody
Finger-Twisting and Cracked Voices: The Hysterical Symptom Revisited	139	(20)
Irene Matthis
Setting Freud and Hysteria in Historical Context	159	(6)
Harold Blum
Panel Discussion: Relating 100 Years of Psychoanalysis to Clinical Practice	165	(14)
Part IV Art and Literature	179	(34)
The Mind and the Book: Past, Present, and Future Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism	181	(14)
Norman N. Holland
Freud and the Visual Arts	195	(18)
Donald Kuspit
Part V Freud and Love	213	(34)
What Freud Taught Us about Passionate Romantic Love	215	(16)
R. Curtis Bristol
Freud's Theories of Love and Their Application to Treatment of Love Conflicts	231	(16)
Stefan A. Pasternack
Part VI Race, Ethnicity, and International Relations	247	(62)
Race and Countertransference: Two ``Blind Spots'' in Psychoanalytic Perception	251	(18)
Dorothy Evans Holmes
Our Moral Universe	269	(10)
Michael Moskowitz
Psychoanalysis and Diplomacy: Potentials for and Obstacles against Collaboration	279	(18)
Vamik D. Volkan
Closing Panel: Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society	297	(10)
Epilogue: Freud in Our Time	307	(2)
David E. Scharff
Index	309