Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse: Band 43

Vorveröffentlichte Arbeiten zum 42. Kongress der Internationalen Psychoanalytischen Vereinigung in Nizza 2001:

• Isidoro Berenstein: Die Verbindung und der Andere
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  The author begins by drawing attention to the current crisis in psychoanalysis, in which, following the great initial discoveries, he considers a certain solipsism inimical to the acceptance of innovation has come to hold sway. This situation can in his view be overcome by the introduction of new applications and practices, as in the past with the acceptance of the ideas of Melanie Klein in the field of child analysis. Theory is in the author’s opinion always fertilised by clinical practice, a thesis he illustrates by an account of his own work with couples and families, where the patient is deemed to be not any one individual in the group but the group itself considered as a nexus of links. The implications and theoretical repercussions of this link-based conception are discussed at length and some novel terms are introduced -- for example, the link between subjects, imposition, the social subject, the subject relationship and the multiple subject.Alienness and the ›other‹, and presence and absence, are shown to be important concepts and are distinguished from object relations. The paper ends with a reference to a new resistance, namely to linking, and its implications on the social level such as ethnic and religious wars.
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• Jean-Luc Donnet: Von der Grundregel zur Situation des Analysierens
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  A major feature of the analytic method is the way in which the patient gives meaning to the fundamental rule and the analytic situation through the use he makes of it in the transference. His appropriation of the method makes him an analysand and allows for the emergence in the analytic site of the analysing situation in which the task of creating thirdness is included.
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• Arnold Goldberg: Die postmoderne Psychoanalyse
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  Psychoanalysis is grounded in understanding; not the casual understanding seen in relationships that prosper according to its achievement but an in-depth understanding that is conditioned by the complexities of the transference and the unconscious. It is a form of understanding that puts comfort and agreement into a secondary position. There is no doubt that Freud felt that he achieved this form of understanding by the technique and conditions that he employed or, to put it differently, by the method that he felt was most likely to allow the development of the state of transference that was desireable. Many analysts have felt the same, and one cannot possibly discard the knowledge that derives from that tradition. However, it is also of no doubt that other analysts might achieve that understanding under different conditions. If the method of such understanding requires a sustained empathy on the part of the analyst, then one need atttend to the conditions that enable both patient and analyst to make that possible. If one feels that other forms of data gathering are required, then that too becomes a mutal undertaking by both patient and analyst. Since people are different both in personality and pathology, it seems foolhardy to insist that Freud’s tradition applies to all. It seems equally foolhardy to claim that nothing whatsoever need apply to all. Thus we aim not for some intersubjective state of agreement but for a state allowing an optimum inquiry of one person by another. To oversimplify: one is doing the right thing as long as one understands what one is doing. That requires that everything is able to be bracketed as a local metanarrative with local rules and thus to be scrutinized. And nothing is free from being the object of such sought-for understanding.
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Wolfgang-Loch-Gedächtnisvorlesung:

• André Haynal: Deutungs-Kunst und Neubeginn. Der Analytiker bei seiner Arbeit Buy article

Klinische Beiträge:

• Juliet Mitchell: »Seitwärts schauen« – Die Psychoanalyse und das Problem der Geschwisterbeziehung Buy article
• Britta Heberle: Die Vater-Tochter. Überlegungen zur Psychodynamik der ödipalen Fixierung Buy article

Theoretische Beiträge:

• Wolfgang Hegener: Freud der Ägypter: Eine Spurensuche. Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von Bild und Schrift Buy article
• Jürgen Hardt: Editorial zu Willem van Reijens Aufsatz »Das authentische Selbst«
• Willem van Reijen: Das authentische Selbst – eine Aufgabe
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  It is well known that literary texts do not solve problems but describe them. In Ein Kommentar Kafka makes a theme of the tense and antagonistic relationship between our competence to perform and to acquire recognition symbolized in the concept of an ›autonomous ego‹, our ability to be creative conceptualized in the ›pure ego‹ and our task to differentiate and combine the two of them seen as the realisation of the ›autonomous self‹. The ›autonomous ego‹, committed to the principle of reality, is exposed to society’s requirement to achieve. There, however, it plunges into the contradiction to be at the same time autonomous, i.e. giving the law to itself, and having to adapt. It is true that the ›pure ego‹ as a creative and artistic instance is autonomous, but it also falls into a contradiction because it cannot remain in the sphere in which it can be itself -- and every being itself means remaining itself. Both abilities have to be differentiated and to be combined. As they are in themselves contradictory, the synthesis can only be contradictory. This does not mean that it is unimaginable or impossible. In graphic terms we can grasp it as an ellipsis with two focusses. The opposite poles are neither rigid nor conceptually fixed -- they permanently turn into each other. If we wish to register their dynamic relationship we are always bound to be late. The ›authentic self‹ remains a task in two senses of the word.
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• Eberhard Th. Haas: Ödipuskomplex und Ödipusfabel: Lebenstatsachen bei Sophokles
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  The idea in Totem and Taboo that »the beginnings of religion, morality, society and art« meet in the Oedipus Complex (Freud 1912-13) is by no means outdated in the author’s opinion. Freud’s »primordial murder of the father-leader« thesis has since been revised outside the field of psychoanalysis by the cultural anthropologist René Girard, and his ideas warrant consideration. Instead of »primordial murder of the father-leader« Girard speaks of »founding murder«. He also refers to the Sophoclean tragedies and the facts of life they contain, which suggests that they are suitable for substantiating their further development along cultural-anthropological lines. The author starts with the Oedipus Complex (1) and Melanie Klein’s extended view of it (2). However, the Sophoclean tragedies (the Oedipus Fable) also include topics which reach beyond the various forms of psychoanalytical interpretation: Oedipus’ birth and the casting out of the newborn (3); the plague in Thebes, a disaster in group psychology terms (4); Oedipus’ death and his divinity (5). These are facts of life which are governed by rituals in all cultures and rituals have a containing function. Bion’s container-contained modell is the principle which underlies and shapes all rituals and at the same time constitutes the nucleus of this revised cultural-anthropological synthesis.
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Beiträge zur Geschichte der Psychoanalyse:

• Elmar Etzersdorfer: Der Besuch von Brückes Urenkel bei Freud. Ein Beitrag zum Verständnis von Freuds Beziehung zu Ernst Brücke Buy article
• Ernst Federn: Bemerkungen über den Einfluß von Politik und sozialem Verhalten auf die Entwicklung der Psychoanalyse
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  Man is a social being, a herd animal. Hence speech is of major importance. Freud’s Viennese German is difficult to understand even in the North of Germany. The English translation of his work misinterprets in many cases his ideas. It has led to a division of psychoanalysis into a German and an English branch. After 40 years of growing influence, psychoanalysis was destroyed in Europe with the exception of Switzerland. Psychoanalysis emigrated to England and the USA where it underwent crucial changes. The American psychoanalysis dominated the whole field for twenty years. Only in the sixties was the social significance of psychoanalysis rediscovered in Germany. The mind of human being is limited in the same way as his body and nothing fundamental can be discovered in it anymore. Baby research is a behavioral science although it has been influenced by psychoanalysis. Without speech there can be no psychoanalysis. Only social life is constantly in motion and produces new phenomena. This, however, is an ego function and hence psychoanalysis became in its development an ego psychology.
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In memoriam:

• Marian Juszczak, Wolfgang Kallwass, Bettina Meissner, Klaus Reinecke, Manfred Schmidt: Nachruf auf Edeltrud Meistermann (6.4.1906 – 9.10.1999) Buy article