Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse: Band 19

• In memoriam Piet Jacob van der Leeuw

Beiträge:

• Harold P. Blum: Der Einfluss der Kultur des deutschen Sprachraums auf Freuds Denken
• Didier Anzieu: Der Einfluss der Kultur des deutschen Sprachraums auf Freuds Denken
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  Freud’s self-analysed dreams between 1895 and 1900 point out: 1.) his attachment to his German mother tongue and the use of its peculiarities to represent certain polymorphous perverse fantasies of childhood (voyeurism, masochism mostly); 2.) the recourse to living foreign languages (English and French mostly) to name the parts of the self both left alive and foreign to the consciousness; 3.) the use of Latin and Greek words to try to constitute one scientific universal language fitting to the knowledge of the unconscious. For Freud, the German culture is the culture to which he belongs the antic Mediterranean culture being the reference’s culture. It allows him to get free from the motherly symbiosis and to discover the Oedipus complex. The variety of languages and cultures is necessary to the preconscious activity of the psycho-analyst to whom it provides »intermediate ideas.«
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• Ernst A. Ticho: Der Einfluß der deutschsprachigen Kultur auf Freuds Denken
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  The main influences on Freud’s thought of German language writers, philosophers, scientists have been surveyed. Two inner conflicts in Freud’s life have also been discussed: a dependency conflict and a conflict between Freud’s wishes to be a creative writer and a scientist. An inner tension produced by these conflicting wishes remained, and Freud’s ability to combine both gifts is reflected in the unique character of the theories and procedures he developed.
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• Ilse Grubrich-Simitis: Gedanken über Sigmund Freuds Beziehung zur deutschen Sprache und Aufklärungstradition
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  The discussion of the papers of Didier Anzieu and Ernst A. Ticho on ,The Influence of the German-Language Culture on Freud’s Thought’ concentrates on two aspects of the theme. Firstly, the question is considered in how far specific individual words (e.g. »Trieb«), as well as specific basic grammatical structures of the German language (e. g. certain forms of the passive voice; the flexibility in changing between the parts of speech) made the verbal grasp of unconscious and preconscious phenomena easier for Freud, i. e. facilitated the conceptualization of psychoanalysis. The second aspect deals with the young reader Freud’s predilection for those German-speaking authors - from Lessing to Heine - writing in the Enlightenment tradition. Identification with these critical, rebellious thinkers contributed to the consolidation of Freud’s personality. He himself stressed again and again the overriding importance of his steadfastness of character and his disbelief in authority for his life’s achievement: the discovery of the unconscious in spite of inner and outer resistance.
• Eva Laible: Bemerkung zur Eröffnung der Diskussion über den Einfluß der Kultur des deutschen Sprachraums auf Freuds Denken Buy both articles

Beiträge zur Geschichte der Psychoanalyse:

• Kurt R. Eissler: Eine angebliche Disloyalität Freuds einem Freunde gegenüber Buy article
• Wolfgang J. A. Huber: Emma Ecksteins Feuilleton zur »Traumdeutung«
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  A hitherto unknown review of »The Interpretation of Dreams« entitled »Das Seelenleben im Traum« from 1900 was discovered in the »Arbeiterzeitung«, the Workers’ Newspaper of Social Democracy in Austria. The author Emma Eckstein is regarded as one of Freud’s earliest psychoanalytic patients. Interest in her awoke not earlier than 1966 when Max Schur demonstrated her significance for Freud’s history in letters to Fließ thus far unpublished. Not only the significance of Emma Eckstein as a person but also the quality of the text which presents the basic ideas of »The Interpretation of Dreams« with an astonishingly precise grasp of the issue also understandable to an interested layman, justifies the reprint of the paper. Editorial comments, divided into two sections - on the person of the author and on the text - attempt to relate this document of the reception of psychoanalysis at the time of its beginnings to the context of its origin.
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Theoretische Beiträge:

• Pinchas Noy: Von der Phantasie zur Realität
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  The greater part of the reality we live in - objects, tools, social institutions, systems of belief, myths, and works of art - is a man made one. So that most of what belongs to our reality today, has its origin in the imagination of somebody living in the past. The problem central to this study is - how does an individual succeed to transform the products of his imagination into the reality of somebody else? The hypothesis is, that one of the basic features contributing to this capability is the special sensitivity of the creative scientist or artist to perceive the conscious and unconscious psychological, social, technological and aesthetic needs of his target group, and his ability to respond to them creatively. Following the presentation and discussion of this hypothesis a special group of patients, called the »self-centered patients« is presented. These patients are characterized by an initial state of relative or total lack of any sensitivity to the needs of others, but in many of them such a sensitivity appears and consolidates as a result of a successful analysis. The assumption is, that if we will understand better the process of change of the patient moving in the course of his analysis from selfcenteredness to reality-orientation (von Selbstbezogenheit zur Realitätsorientierung) we may be able to understand also better how one of the main capabilities responsible for creativity - the special sensitivity to the reality-needs of others - develops spontaneously in the creative scientist and artist.
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• Claudia Sies / Tobias H. Brocher: Die Bedeutung der Autopoiese für Metapsychologie
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  In this paper the original concepts of psychoanalysis are compared with recent research data of neurobiology. The current separation of clinical psychoanalysis and metapsychology, - the latter sometimes identified as related to the natural sciences, the former considered as an heuristic approach, - may overlook the inevitable confrontation of psychoanalytic terminology with new scientific facts of neurobiology, especially the mind-brain research. While Freud originally included both aspects (the physiological and psychological), current tendencies could result in split versions and the risk of solely psychologistic, physiologistic and sociologistic, onesided interpretations of psychoanalysis. Those categories are still related to the Cartesian paradigm of a split between body and mind - the myth of the machine. The research results of Neurobiology and the epistemological consequences are to develop relational descriptions of non-separated functions which present different phenomena on distinguishable levels. The principle of autopoiesis as the invariable self-organisation of living systems is compared with the security need of »well-being« as a basic regulation principle. (Sandler and Joffe, 1969) Physiological, neuronal processes and psychic experiences occur in strictly separated phenomenal areas. Only the observer can construct their relations: As an observer one views the relationship of the different phenomenal areas at a meta-level of description, from which the distinguishable phenomena can be related to each other at the cognitive level of the observer. (Maturana, H. 1983)
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Beiträge zur angewandten Psychoanalyse:

• William G. Niederland: Wie Amerika zu seinem Namen kam Buy article
• Hanna Segal: Schweigen ist das eigentliche Verbrechen Buy article

150. Bulletin der Internationalen Psychoanalytischen Vereinigung

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