Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse: Band 40

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Beiträge zur Geschichte der Psychoanalyse:

• Albrecht Hirschmüller (Hrsg.): Max Eitingon über Anna O. (Breuer) in psychoanalytischer Betrachtung
• Max Eitingon: Anna O. (Breuer) in psychoanalytischer Betrachtung. Wien X. 1909
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  According to the editor’s reconstruction Max Eitingon was Sigmund Freud’s guest in his lecture on the theory of neuroses and psychotherapy that was held as a seminar in 1909 where he reported on the primal patient (Ur-Patientin) Anna O., interpreting her illness as a defence neuropsychosis of an anxiety-hysterical character and abandoning Breuer’s concept of hypnoid hysteria. Eitingon emphasised the character of compromise of hysterical symptoms and the transference of a libidinal conflict including a gravidity fantasy from the father onto Breuer. The text was conceived as an internal paper not intended for publication and was found in Max Eitingon’s legacy to Dr Erich Gumbel in Jerusalem.
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• Kurt R. Eissler: Eine Verzögerung in Freuds Gebrauch der kathartischen Methode
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  Contrary to a view held by Reicheneder that Freud’s development as a psychologist advanced in a straight line, the author finds a phase on Freud’s way to a new technique in which he disregards the psychological factor and underestimates the revolutionary potential of Josef Breuer’s cathartic method whose discovery and findings merit an outstanding place in the history of ideas. He compares Freud’s development with a zigzag line and sees in it an expression of a demonic element typical of the genius. Contemporary sources verify the delay in Freud’s use of the cathartic method.
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• André Haynal: Freud und kein Ende ...
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  The author attempts to elaborate on some themes from Freud’s work, which on the one hand are especially related to Berlin (such as the exhibition in the Pergamon Museum, Freud’s training in pediatrics that he began with Adolf Baginsky, or Wilhelm Fließ and the Berlin sexologists) and on the other hand are of particular significance for his later central concern (such as the thematics of castration). Karl Abraham’s view-points on this issues have also received great emphasis. Furthermore, some of these issues might even today be the cause of certain uneasiness in the legacy of Freudian ideas in that they are unsettled questions ... Between the lines the author also tries to show that a historical understanding of origins and the development of psychoanalysis - also recommended by Freud (Freud 1923 a, 211) - may creatively renew our relationship to this theory.
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• Erika Danneberg: Psychoanalyse gegen den Strich. Chile – Nicaragua – Cuba
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  The author describes her own experiences as a psychoanalyst in Chile, Nicaragua and Cuba and experiences of others who could escape physical extermination by Hitler’s fascism only by fleeing to South America, above all those of Maria Langer, and pleads for a contribution of »left-wing psychoanalysis«, of »analysis against the grain« not only as a component of Latin American identity but also as a new definition of psychoanalytic identity according to which, corresponding to a reversal of the basic rule, the readiness to hear everything that enters analysands’ minds, even if it threatens not only the person on the couch but also the one behind the couch, forms the basis of the working alliance. She considers the mixing of analytic and political abstinence to be inadmissible and recalls the damage to psychoanalysis caused by the exclusion of political reality from the shelter of analysis in the 1930s.
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Theoretische Beiträge:

• Haydée Faimberg: Die narzißtische Dimension der ödipalen Konfiguration
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  In the working through of the oedipal conflict in all and every analysis we reach a moment of struggle against narcissistic figures. In this situation the subject feels that he totally possesses the object or he is totally excluded by the object. Therefore a conflict of an oedipal nature can be treated in a narcissistic modality. This point of view has been scarcely treated in psychoanalytical literature. The overcoming of this narcissistic dilemma constitutes a momentous step in the analysis of the oedipal conflict. I am not using the concept of narcissism as related to the concept of self. I have chosen to take the concept of narcissism as a mode of functioning of the subject, as a particular kind of investment. Narcissism is studied in terms of an intrinsic intrapsychic conflict (an aspect often neglected), linked to the history of the constitution of the patient’s psyche. The narcissistic configuration has a contradictory character in that the subject, while expressing his self-sufficiency, is dependent upon the other to confirm that he is indeed admirably aelf-sufficient. This paper offers reflections upon the theoretical and clinical framework in which this contradiction is considered. It also relates this paradox to the oedipal conflicts. By proposing an oedipal configuration which covers a wider range of oedipal conflicts and by conceiving of a narcissistic dimension of the oedipal configuration a conceptual matrix is proposed to link the patient’s narcissistic way of functioning to his Oedipus complex. A clinical example is used to illustrate these ideas.
• Michel de M’Uzan: Gegenübertragung und paradoxes System
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  The author describes following an extensive definition of countertransference, which includes anything that emanates from the person of the analyst during the cure, the phenomenon of the unexpected emergence of strange, embarassing ideas without any evident connections with the material of the session as though the analyst had withdrawn from the situation. Whilst he has the impression of dropping out, of not being the same person, a precise image appears and a curious thought occurs to him, the communication of which as an interpretation both heralds and utters a significant fragment of the analysand’s unconscious world. The analyst’s psychic apparatus has literally become that of the analysand’s. By means of an idea in the analyst’s psychic space the analysand takes possession of the analyst’s mind, inundates him. The analyst seems to have withdrawn as an individual and only leaves functional abilities behind. The author calls these phenomena, which do not represent an individual reaction to the patient’s transference and do not come from a blind spot in the analyst, but betray astounding polymorphic and anticipatory power, indeed a prophetic character, paradoxical thinking, allocating the paradox to an interims position on the fringe of the unconscious and preconscious. The acquisition of the analyst’s psychic apparatus does not persue any destructive intentions but is connected to the fate of the narcicisstic libido of the present protagonists and leads back to the time when the subject was formed. The analysand’s idea in the analyst’s psychic space behaves following a biological model like a trophoblast; the analyst ist not allowed to recognise it in its otherness. Mourning at the loss of the narcicisstic object of the mother is a too bitter experience to be accepted. The experience leaves residual functions and the ability of the narcicisstic libido to move to and fro between the idea of the subject itself and that of its love objects. Interpretations stemming from the paradox system provide excluded ideas with a verbal form and shatter a rigid economic status. The patient lives through a moment of mourning and doubts the existence of the analyst who seems to have taken a part of his drives with him before they can be abruptly mobilized and adopted introspectively. The paradox system facilitates a deep understanding of the patient thanks to the ability of primary identification, tolerance of experiences of depersonalisation and a floating of the distinction of identities of subject and object.
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• Heribert Knott: Das Konzept der Nachträglichkeit heute
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  After detailed clarification of the concept the necessity for Freud is demonstrated to develop and utilize the concept of deferred action (Nachträglichkeit) against his causal thinking principle. Then the concept of deferred action is elaborated; it can serve as an aid in difficult treatment situations. A casuistic example vividly portrays the problems and leads on to the more recent brain physiological investigations which make essential aspects of the Freudian model of the human brain, thought and memory appear quite modern.
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Klinischer Beitrag:

• Ute Auhagen-Stephanos: Psychoanalytische Behandlung von Frauen mit unerfülltem Kinderwunsch
  
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  Sensitized by years of dealing with the injuries and vulnerability of sterile women I have developed a security-providing basic attitude of empathy towards them. In a process of negative and positive transference reactions I experience these women above all in their deep level of deprivation as lonely survivers repulsed by their mothers. I see their unfulfilled wish for a child as their desire to be pregnant with themselves, so that they can give birth to their infantile part of themselves which has been so severely traumatized and frustrated and reflect on it by identifying with me in the spirit of maternal care. In the transference they insert this infantile part into me, they make me pregnant with themselves, as it were, in a countertransference enactment (Treurniet 1996). In this way they are able to detach themselves from the hopelessness of being given up again and again. If they feel their psychic relationship to me as being guaranteed in this way, they are more likely to risk guaranteeing it to a child.
  
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Beiträge zur angewandten Psychoanalyse:

• Christoph Ertle: Zur Psychoanalyse von Umweltzerstörung – Folgerungen für die Pädagogik
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  new residential areas and caused by a lack of imagination and thirst of power A. Mitscherlich searches for motives and their meaning. For him the city is a »biotop« and the analyst becomes a »biotop-explorer«; psychoanalysis is given the function of a »refined system of order« that serves to investigate the social and psychological effects of »inhospitable cities«. With his object and method of investigation and research Mitscherlich the psychoanalyst is the first to take up the burning societal theme »home as lebensraum« and introduces it into the interdisciplinary discussion. Yet not only the link between psychoanalysis and social psychology catch our interest but also wording and examples draw attention to themes in common with the present ecological discussion. Mitscherlich’s fundamental for the most part unheeded essay »The inhospitality of our cities« (Die Unwirtlichkeit unserer Städte), a polemic pamphlet, achieves with its programmatic reservation, not to insist on solutions, the opposite in terms of a paradox intervention; it provides valuable information of how change in the life of city dwellers could be initiated. At this point Mitscherlich scetches outlines of a cultural theory which leads the author to further thought. In the course of this paper the author attempts to investigate the different psychic mechanisms which, in the form of warded-off destruction and disguised as advertising, first make ecological desasters possible. Thus outlines of an education become recognisable which are contrasted with models of a minimizing or non-stated exciting education with the aim of generating concern (Betroffenheit). But the other tendency would have fatal consequences too - accumulation of knowledge as enlightenment without emotional link. Mitscherlich’s consideration, further destruction can be prevented if we succeed in working for a »more stable relationship between insight and passion«, can be understood as a pointer for classroom didactics, which is still blocked by the conflict between enlightenment and emotionalization.
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• Gisela Greve / Konrad Hößler: »Nachmittag spielte ich Göthen über 2 Stunden vor ...«. Felix Mendelssohn und seine Väter
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  According to a shrewd remark by Hector Berlioz Felix Mendelssohn loved dead persons somewhat too much. This phenomenon, which was quite of new interest in the history of music in preceding epochs of music, will be analysed by an examination of Mendelssohns’ relations with a number of idealized grandfathers inter alia Goethe besides his real grandfather. The importance of these grandfathers for Mendelssohns personality and their marks in his musical work will be investigated.
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