Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse: Band 33

Beiträge zur Geschichte der Psychoanalyse:

• Leonard Shengold: Freud, Fließ und Abraham
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  The juxtaposition of murder, incest and sex in the Oedipus complex and its attendant castration complex have supplied a ground bass for this paper against which various themes have appeared, faded, and re-appeared like leit-motifs: Abraham and Moses (two of Freud’s alter egos or ego ideals); Israel and Egypt; betrayal; the struggle for succession; numerology and superstition; the sun and sight; Prussianism and brutality - these are subjects for Freud that, to continue the musical analogy, combine polyphonically while reflecting and expressing the theme present in the ground bass. Listening for themes and patterns in the form of metaphors is part of the art of psychoanalysis (see Kanzer, 1958, 1969) although the music there is, so to speak, for two players. I have tried to portray the counterpoint of Freud’s living out his passionate involvements in the events and characters of the Old Testament stories that had absorbed him so early and provided him with so many figures whom he could use to disguise and amplify his identity.
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• Gerhard Fichtner: »Als ob« es Freud wäre ... Ein angebliches Freud-Gedicht und sein Zusammenhang mit Freuds Menschenbild
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  A poem attributed to Freud appears in reality to be written by the philosopher Hans Vaihinger (1852-1933) in honor of Freud’s seventieth birthday. A full understanding of the poem directs our attention to the theoretical agreements and differences between these two historical figures. In comparison to Vaihinger’s simplified and exaggerated statements about the similarities in their positions, Freud progressively insists on their divergences. Whereas initially in the »Question of Lay Analysis« (1926) Freud allies himself with Vaihinger’s philosophy to clarify the fictional aspects of the »psychic apparatus«, in »The Future of an Illusion« (1927) he goes on critically to associate that philosophy with the very absurdity of religious doctrine. In sum, the salient features of Freud’s anthropology are his belief in reason and its development in the direction of reality. Accordingly when Freud congratulates someone he makes use of the occasion to consider the »omnipotence of thought« as a phenomenon in light of his own unsparing self-reflexion.
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Klinische Beiträge:

• Evelyne Albrecht Schwaber: Die Denkprozesse des Psychoanalytikers. Vom Zuhören zur Interpretation
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  Freud’s shift to »psychical reality« as our psychoanalytic terrain holds sweeping epistemological and clinical challenges, profoundly altering our understanding of what we mean by what is real. Exploring the patient’s inner reality as our fundamental data base, we are offered an extraordinary opportunity, while it remains elusive: extraordinary, because when we find our way into the patient’s inner world, this can evoke a sense of discovery and recognition, holding a remarkable mutative potential; and elusive, because there is a continuing pull towards our own assumptions and predilections, away from the depth of the patient’s experience. I try, in my own work, to listen as closely as possible to the nuances of the patient’s verbal and non-verbal communications in the immediacy of the analytic moment. I try to illuminate data that can be mutually observable, to minimize the leaps of inference I make, to be open to seeking possibilities in the patient’s meaning that had not occurred to me. But often, despite these basic and seemingly self-evident tenets, I fail at this endeavor, retreating to what I come later to recognize as a conceit, a belief in the greater ›wisdom‹ in what is only my own vantage point. Drawing upon a clinical example, I shall illustrate some of these efforts to listen to my patient, and my difficulty doing so. For reasons of my own, which were, at the time, hidden to me, dovetailing with the patient’s defensive processes, I bypassed an essential dimension of his experience. I did not know that I had, nor did he, but learned it subsequently, when I could finally hear that there was something essential I had not understood. This recognition, once articulated, brought to the patient’s awareness deeply buried vistas of his inner reality. It held a pervading mutative effect. My struggle was one, which, I believe, has more far-reaching, even ubiquitous ramifications.
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• Alcira Mariam Alizade / Pedro Marcelo Aptekmann, Werner Gerst, Monika Siedmann de Armesto, Fernando Weissmann, Juan Carlos Weissmann: Der Psychoanalytiker vor dem Grauen
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  Our main interest is devoted to countertransference in psychoanalysts who work with survivors or with relatives of survivors of terror regimes. We consider the interacting identifications and projections which occur in different ways during the therapy depending on the identities of the analyst and the patient. We have attempted to focus the imaginary mirroring of torturing/being tortured as well as the problems of the memory and its gaps (remembering and forgetting). Eleven different cases and an interview with a survivor of Dachau and Auschwitz have been investigated in this paper.
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Theoretische Beiträge:

• Rainer Holm-Hadulla: Zur ästhetischen Dimension der psychoanalytischen Erfahrung
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  The structuring function of visual shaping in the psychoanalytical situation is illuminated with recourse to the antique term of aisthesis, the theory of sensual perception. Freud’s ambiguity regarding sensual-aesthetic cognition is elaborated using Loewald’s interpretation of the art of psychoanalytical healing. The significance of the receptiveness of patient and analyst to the dimension of aesthetic experience and the creative game in the analytical situation are made visible by means of Meltzer’s concept of aesthetic conflict and Winnicott’s theory of transitional objects. In a case study it is shown how the disintegration of a female patient is overcome by providing inner pictures. The aesthetic and at the same time the hermeneutic dimension of the psychoanalytical experience appear as aspects and not as a metatheory of psychoanalytical science.
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• Eberhard Th. Haas: Gedenken und Erinnern
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  This paper attempts to distinguish between commemorating and remembering. Commemorating preserves the past, is loyal to it. Remembering destroys it in the same way as the work of memory is able to resolve the power of repetition compulsion. The author refers to the myth of Orpheus, which he sees as the original myth of the mourning process. He interprets Orpheus’ look back as remembering. At the same time references to elements of time (Zeitlichkeit) are prodeced: »Eurydice is« is replaced by »she was«. Not only the mourning process but also the analytical situation follows the drama of the myth of Orpheus. In both cases the stores of memory are checked and revised, according to the requirements of the presence. This is demonstrated by a case history. Finally the question whether collectives can mourn is asked. Here the value of commemorating for communities as well as peoples and nations is discussed.
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Beitrag zur angewandten Psychoanalyse:

• Peter Dettmering: »Schuld und Sühne« – Destruktivität und Wiedergutmachung bei Dostojewski
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  Dostoyevsky’s novel »Crime and Punishment«, also known as »Rodion Raskolnikov«, is understood here as the expression of the conflict between the urge to help and the contrary tendency to let things go, to let them go »to the devil«. The question arises whether such quotations of the devil (in the novel) are merely metaphorical or whether they are to be taken more seriously. Trying to show that the novel is in fact what might be called a veiled story of a »devil’s treaty«, I present material from the novel (including dreams) to demonstrate that the protagonist goes through a severe regression in the borderland of psychosis but then recovers. The analogies between Dostoyevsky’s psychology and some concepts of psychoanalysis are evident.
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157. Bulletin der IPA vom 38. Internationalen Psychoanalytischen Kongress in Amsterdam 1993

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