Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse: Band 20

Vorveröffentlichte Arbeiten zum 35. Kongress der Internationalen Psychoanalytischen Vereinigung:

• Didier Anzieu: Über Ichveränderungen, die Analysen unendlich machen
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  After summarizing the seven questions put by Freud in his 1937 paper ,Analysis terminable and interminable', the author reports on the case of a female patient in whose second analysis four difficulties arose: the condensation of several traumas; a preverbal main trauma; the need for a permanent auxiliary ego to perform certain psychical functions; and resistance to analysis of her sexual inhibitions. The concept of the ,skinego’ is proposed as a guide to interpretation. Several factors in the negative therapeutic reaction are demonstrated: in neurotic patients, fulfillment of incestuous oedipal wishes with the analyst may be postponed until after the end of the analysis, thereby abolishing that end; while in borderline patients the need for an indestructible, immortal external object may make it impossible to bring the analysis to an end, the transference being both anaclitic and paradoxical. Three other cases are discussed more briefly and illustrate the alterations of the ego when confronted with destructive envy, boundless greed and the repetition compulsion. The concept of the ,all-embracing object', as distinct from the part-object and whole object, can explain some patients’ need to change analysts.
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• Isodoro Berenstein: Die endliche und die unendliche Analyse – 50 Jahre danach
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  The author reviews ,Analysis terminable and interminable’ and traces the similarities to and differences from the Situation fifty years ago, discussing Freud’s personal circumstances in 1937 and the circumstances of the psychoanalytical movement and concentrating on the relationship with Ferenczi and the idea that the paper is Freud’s psychoanalytical testament. This is followed by a consideration of Freud’s social and political circumstances in 1937, the year when the paper was written. The author then comments on and considers some of the points dealt with in Freud’s eight sections from the Standpoint of today. He discusses the various possible connotations of the terms ,terminable’ and ,interminable'. Other terms that could be used coincide only partially: finite and infinite; capable of being worked through and not capable of being worked through; expressible and inexpressible; finished and unfinished; possible and impossible. The author discusses whether these categories are applicable to the transference and can also be applied to self-analysis. He considers new circumstances for the practice of psychoanalysis in situations of social trauma which, while not interrupting the analysis, raise the question of analysis possible and impossible. Finally, an attempt is made to arrive at a provisional definition of the conditions under which analysis may be regarded as terminable or interminable.
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• Harold P. Blum: Die endliche und die unendliche Analyse im Rückblick nach einem halben Jahrhundert
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  Elucidating issues of profound importance, ›Analysis terminable and interminable‹ stimulated the advance of psychoanalytic thought while in some respects paradoxically reactivating antiquated ideas. Soberly realistic about analytic outcome, Freud indicated that conflict could not be permanently resolved or the ego definitively strengthened. He emphasized some important aspects of constitution, such as strength of the instincts, libidinal adhesiveness, free aggression, and psychic fluidity or rigidity. Considering the influence of experience, he regarded the more accidental traumatic neurosis as having an unusually favourable prognosis. While concurrently advancing dual drive theory and ego psychology, Freud also paradoxically returned to concepts of ego instincts. His proposals concerning the bedrock of bisexuality have been extended and deepened, but the ›repudiation of feminity‹ requires theoretical qualification. Problems of termination thread through the entire essay. Freud pondered the nature of termination as well as incomplete, completed, periodic, and interminable analysis. His observations both preceded and contributed to the subsequent formulation of a terminal phase. He recognized that analysts might require reanalysis and hoped that the analytic process would continue after termination in the analyst’s selfanalysis.
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Nachträge und Relexionen zu Themen des Hamburger Kongresses:

• J. Chasseguet-Smirgel: Überlegungen zum Hamburger Kongreß Buy article
• Haydée Faimberg: Die Ineinanderrückung (Telescoping) der Generationen
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  The psychic emptiness of a patient was an insurmountable obstacle which negated the analyst’s presence and rendered the interpretation of this presence, as well as of the psychic absence of the analysand, impossible. The discovery of alienating identifications and their history which concerns three generations makes it possible to recognize where the patient was during the psychic absence and to modify the situation. Identification involves an entire historical process and not only the object. Identifications have a cause and are not merely a given fact. In the case of another patient, any psychic change produced a feeling of anxiety which was sometimes catastrophic. We study the narcissistic moment of the Oedipus structure: a telescoping of generations condenses identifications which imply incompatible ideals. We study the clinical conditions which must be satisfied in order to be sure that this secret history, cause of the identifications, is really constitutive of the patient’s psyche. The function of appropriation-intrusion exercised by the internal parents of the patient is a key concept which allows us to understand the alienating Splitting of the ego. There is at the same time an internal object which is never lost and a failure to recognize the object-relation. Thanks to this perspective we are able to fill certain gaps. These identifications probably exist in all analyses, and we should be ready to recognize them as such. They will allow us to explain certain paradoxical reactions, even certain forms of negative therapeutic reactions.
• Harold P. Blum: Zur Identifikation und ihren Schicksalen Buy article
• Rivka R. Eifermann: »Deutschland« und »die Deutschen«: Agieren von Phantasien und deren Entdeckung in der Selbstanalyse
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  My general purpose in this paper is to share with other analysts some details regarding my methods of self-analysis and some of the functions it serves for me, so as to open up discussion on the largely neglected issue of self-analysis. Specifically, I aim to describe some of the ways and means by which I reached, deep within me, roots of prejudiced and stereotyped deprecations and idealizations, based on strong ambivalent feelings towards »everything German«, and to indicate some of the internal changes facilitated by these discoveries. With the aid of self-analysis I reached some unconscious fantasies regarding my inner »Germany« and »the Germans«, and the acting out to which they led. These fantasies related to »good« and »bad« aspects of significant persons from my early life. During the Stretch of self-analysis, the conscious objects of my associations shifted back and forth, between these internalized objects and »Germany« and »the Germans«. Germany and the Germans are particularly amenable to be regarded in such an undifferentiated manner. I therefore conclude that specific routes to discoveries such as my own are always idiosyncratic and personal, but always open to general implications.
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• Volker Friedrich: Psychoanalyse im Nationalsozialismus. Vom Widerstand zur Gleichschaltung
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  At present German psycho-analysts are for a third time caught up in a controversy concerning their scientific conception of themselves and their relationship to social and political struggles. In dealing with the history of psycho-analysis in National Socialist Germany an exhausting process of remembering and working-through has been set in motion. New facts have become known about the political coordination (»Gleichschaltung4) by the psychoanalysists who remained in Germany and the integration of the Berlin Psycho-Analytical Society into the Nazi System. Parallel to the setting up of the National Socialist regime psychoanalysists underwent a self-organized process of political coordination, which split them into two groups, into Jewish psychoanalysts and Arian psychoanalysts. The latter were struggling to save their Institute and science. They were convinced that psychoanalysis could continue to be practiced as a pure, medical science as opposed to any suspicion of a philosophy of life. They were aware of the danger that, if left to themselves, they would not be able to keep psychoanalysis pure without some form of adulteration. In the German Institute they held positions of responsibility. One after another scientific positions were sacrificed and the independence of psychoanalytical activity abandoned. Of all psychotherapeutical active groups and schools of thought they were to shift the furthest from the essential positions of their science held by them before 1933. After 1945 no attempt was made by them in a self-analytical process to accept the responsibility for the political coordination of psycho-analysis and psychoanalytical practice. Still moved by recent events they immediately tried to re-establish the destroyed Institute, the gathering point for psychotherapy in the whole of Germany. At the same time the psychotherapeutic and the psychoanalytical side emerged. The psycho-therapeutic side denied in the activism of its founding any integration in the National Socialist concept of German psychotherapy, whereas the psychoanalytical side assumed it could continue without any interruption in the pre-1933 tradition. Thus controversies appear between 1945 and 1950 in the German Psycho-Analytical Society concerning the neo-analytical theory of Schultz-Hencke, the correct form of a training institute, the necessity for an independent psychoanalytical institute and the unadulterated teachings of Sigmund Freud as an attempt to escape without question responsibility for the history of psycho-analysis between 1933 and 1945. The charge of «orthodoxy" against the German Psycho-Analytical Association contains a true core in so far as the founders of the new association in identification with the International Association effectively denied any integration in the National Socialist System.
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Rückblick auf den 8. IPSO-Precongress in Hamburg

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Freud-Vorlesung, 6. 5. 1986, Universität Wien:

• Peter Blos: Freud und der Vaterkomplex Buy article

151. Bulletin der Internationalen Psychoanalytischen Vereinigung

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