BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Le famiglie di Edipo [The families of Oedipus] By Gilda De Simone
Visiones de Espana. Re. exiones de un psicoanalista [Visions of Spain. Reflections of a psychoanalyst] By Cecilio Paniagua
Tra il sapere e la cura. Un itinerario freudiano [Between knowledge and treatment.A Freudian journey] by Francesco Conrotto
Secrets of the soul: A social and cultural history of psychoanalysis By Eli Zaretsky
Lire Freud.Découverte chronologique de l oeuvre de Freud [Reading Freud.A chronological exploration of Freud s writings] by Jean-Michel Quinodoz
The blind man sees: Freud s awakening and other essays By Neville Symington
Curare con la psicoanalisi. Percorsi e strategie [Curing with psychoanalysis. Routes and strategies] by Giuseppe Di Chiara
Ferenczi oggi [Ferenczi today] Edited by Franco Borgogno     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Between emotion and cognition: The generative unconscious by Joseph Newirth
Le mal des idéologies [The ills of ideology] By François Duparc
The confusion of tongues: The primacy of sexuality in Freud, Ferenczi, and Laplanche by Philippe Van Haute and Tomas Geyskens
Suffering insanity: Psychoanalytic essays on psychosis By R. D. Hinshelwood
Cures d'enfance [Curing childhood] By Laurence Kahn
The ethic of honesty: The fundamental rule of psychoanalysis By M. Guy Thompson
Misunderstanding Freud By Arnold Goldberg
Traumi di guerra. Un esperienza psicoanalitica in Bosnia-Erzegovina [War traumas. A psychoanalytic experience in Bosnia-Herzegovina] By Patrizia Brunori, Gianna Candolo, Maddalena Donà dalle Rose and Maria Chiara Risoldi with an Introduction by Silvia Amati Sas     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Prima della parola: L'ascolto psicoanalitico del non detto attraverso le forme dell'arte [Before words: psychoanalytic listening to the unsaid through art1] By Antonio Di Benedetto
La ferita dello sguardo: Una ricerca psicoanalitica sulla melanconia [The wounded gaze: Psychoanalytic research on melancholia1] Edited by Patrizia Cupelloni
The Freud encyclopedia: Theory, therapy and culture Edited by Edward Erwin
The complete correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Karl Abraham 1907–1925 Edited by Ernst Falzeder
La pensée clinique [Clinical thinking] By André Green
Hidden faults: Recognizing and resolving therapeutic disjunctions By Steven A Frankel
Post-Kleinian psychoanalysis: The Biella seminars By Kenneth Sanders
Raccontami una storia: Dalla consultazione all'analisi dei bambini [Tell me a story: From consultation to child analysis1] By Dina Vallino.     

Rankian Will

Otto Rank (1884–1939) served as Freud's closest partner in the psychoanalytic movement from 1906 to 1926. From 1923 on, Rank, initially with Ferenczi, focused on making analysis more therapeutic, emphasizing current experience in the session over historical exploration and interpretation. Rank settled on will as a missing factor, and wrote extensively about it after the break with Freud in 1926, when he moved to Paris. He emphasized the here-and-now, redefined “resistance” as a positive aspect of counter-will, and suggested a time limit for analysis. Ousted from analytic circles in 1930, he eventually moved to New York, continuing to treat patients and teach until his unexpected death at 55 in 1939. After decades of obscurity, Rank has gained readers and therapists whose orientation is interpersonal, client-centered, relational, humanistic, or existential. His influence on post-Freudian ego-psychology is finally being acknowledged as are his ideas about creativity, will, life-fear and death-fear, guilt, and ethics.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Melanie Klein by Julia Kristeva
Und Freud hat doch Recht. Die Entstehung der Kultur durch Transformation der Gewalt. Bausteine einer allgemeinen Kulturtheorie [So Freud was right. The emergence of culture through the transformation of violence. Outline of a general theory of culture] by Eberhard T. Haas
The technique and practice of psychoanalysis, Vol 3. The training seminars of Ralph R. Greenson, MD Edited by Lee Jaffe
Intohimoinen nainen. Psykoanalyyttisia tutkielmia halusta, rakkaudesta ja häpeästä [Female desire: Psychoanalytical studies on pleasure, love and shame] by Elina M. Reenkola
Pérdida, pena, duelo: Vivencias, investigación y asistencia [Loss, grief, mourning: Experience, research and care] by Jorge L. Tizón García
Verräter oder Verführte: Eine psychoanalytische Untersuchung Inof. zieller Mitarbeiter der Stasi [Betrayers of trust or themselves betrayed: A psychoanalytic investigation of the unof. cial collaborators with the Stasi] by Ingrid Kerz-Rühling and Thomas Plänkers
Impossible training: A relational view of psychoanalytic education by Emanuel Berman
Lost childhood and the language of exile Edited by Judit Szekacs-Weisz and Ivan Ward     

Elasticity and Healing: A Moment of Renewal

The simultaneous celebration of the donation by Dr. Judith Dupont of the Ferenczi Archive to the London Freud Museum and of the launch of two new books on Ferenczi in the Karnac History of Psychoanalysis Series provides an occasion for reflection on the trauma inflicted on the psychoanalytic world by the Freud–Ferenczi rift and on the hope for renewal symbolized by Dr. Dupont’s gift. Tribute is paid to Judith Dupont and to André Haynal for their contributions to preserving Ferenczi’s legacy. It is argued that Freud bears responsibility for pathologizing those with whom he had intellectual disagreements, but that Ferenczi’s concept of elasticity points the way to a reconciliation of Freud and Ferenczi that renders it no longer necessary to “rescue psychoanalysis from Freud.”     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Freud and Psychoanalysis. By W. W. Meissner.
Psychoanalysis and Culture: A Kleinian Perspective. Edited by David Bell.
Sigmund Freud, 1886-1897. Psychanalystes d'aujourd'hui. By Françoise Coblence.
Sigmund Freud, 1897-1904. Psychanalystes d'aujourd'hui. By Laurence Kahn
Sigmund Freud, 1905-1920. Psychanalystes d'aujourd'hui. By Paul Denis
Sigmund Freud, 1920-1939. Psychanalystes d'aujourd'hui. By Ruth Menahem.
Psychoanalytic Participation, Action, Interaction, and Integration. By Kenneth A. Frank.
The Possession at Loudun. By Michel de Certeau. Translated by Michael B. Smith.
Le temps eéclaté [Exploded time]. By André Green.
Anna Freud: A View of Development, Disturbance and Therapeutic Techniques. By Rose Edgcumbe.
Politics on the Couch: Citizenship and the Internal Life. By Andrew Samuels.
Freudian Repression. By Michael Billig.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
How analysts think and why they think the way they do: Re. ections on three psychoanalytic hours Edited by Arden Aibel Rothstein and Samuel Abrams
Mellemvrende. En diskussion af begrebet borderline [Being in between. A discussion of the concept of borderline] By Judy Gammelgaard
Interpréter le transfert [Interpreting the transference] Edited by Félicie Nayrou and Georges Pragier
Gustav Mahler. A life in crisis By Stuart Feder
Jouer avec Winnicott [Playing with Winnicott] by André Green
Clinical values. Emotions that guide psychoanalytic treatment By Sandra Buechler     

Sándor Ferenczi und der Institutionskonflikt der Psychoanalyse

By the foundation of the International Psychoanalytical Association by Freud, Jung and Ferenczi the “psychoanalytic movement” joined into regulated tracks. Thus, the project “Psychoanalysis”, a project in the spirit of the “Aufklärung”, which had prescribed itself to individualistic autonomy, got into breach. In this contribution the reasons are reflected in regard to the establishment as non-university science and the threat of marginalization. They objected Freud’s pretension of influence and belonging. It is unclear why it was explicitly Sándor Ferenczi who was designated to be the precursor of that foundation. He was initially a critical opponent of Freud’s thoughts. His biography illustrates that the institutionalization of psychoanalysis happened too early and that this brought scientific isolation and personal distress over his life when, at the end of his life, he strived for emanzipation in his relationship to Freud.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Treating attachment disorders: From theory to therapy By Karl Heinz Brisch
Metaphor and the psychodynamic functions of the mind By Henrik Enckell
La figurabilité psychique [Psychic. gurability] By César and Sára Botella
Mit Freud über Freud hinaus. Ausgewählte Vorlesungen zur Psychoanalyse [With Freud and beyond Freud: Selected lectures on psychoanalysis] By Wolfgang Loch Revised and edited by Josef Dantlgraber and Werner Damson
Själen som vägrade krympa. Essäer i judiske ämnen [The soul that refused to shrink. Essays on Jewish topics] By Mikael Enckell
Mental survival strategies after extreme traumatisation By Sverre Varvin
The Third Reich in the unconscious: Transgenerational transmission and its consequences Edited by Vamik D. Volkan, Gabriele Ast and William F. Greer, Jr.
Learning from mistakes: Beyond dogma in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy By Patrick Casement     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Freud messo a fuoco [Freud in focus] By Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca
Barn under Förintelsen—då och nu. Affekter och minnesbilder efter extrem traumatisering [Children in the Holocaust—Now and then. Affects and memory images after extreme traumatisation] By Suzanne Kaplan
Bad feelings By Roy Schafer
L'illusione: Una certezza [Illusion: A certainty] Edited by Anteo Saraval
Stati caotici della mente. Psicosi, disturbi borderline, disturbi psicosomatici, dipendenze [Chaotic states of the mind. Psychosis, borderline disorders, psychosomatic disorders, dependencies] Edited by Luigi Rinaldi
Sexuality, intimacy, power by Muriel Dimen
Sex, death, and the superego. Experiences in psychoanalysis By Ronald Britton
The analyst's analyst within By Lora Heims Tessman     

Could Balint Have Done More for Ferenczi?

After Ferenczi's death of pernicious anemia in 1933 at the age of 59, Michael Balint became the greatest advocate of his late analyst, teacher, colleague, and friend. He was faced with widespread avoidance, a conspiracy of silence against Ferenczi in the psychoanalytic movement. Ernest Jones, in particular, an analysand of Ferenczi and fellow member of the Secret Committee founded by Freud before World War I, seriously attacked Ferenczi. In the third volume of the Freud biography, Jones alleged that in the last years of his life Ferenczi suffered mental deterioration caused by the pernicious anemia, and that this mental decline was the real cause of Ferenczi's technical experimentations, thereby belittling the importance of Ferenczi's independent work in the last phase of his life. This article answers whether Michael Balint, who later became the literary executor of Ferenczi, was devoted enough in countering the charges that lead to a fifty-year silence on Ferenczi's eminent place in psychoanalysis. Correspondence between Balint and Jones is cited, as are reports of Ferenczi's contemporaries; Balint's efforts are placed within the context of the psychoanalytic rivalries after Freud's death.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Commitment and compassion in psychoanalysis: Selected papers of Edward M. Weinshel Edited by Robert Wallerstein Transference: Shibboleth or Albatross? By Joseph Schachter Dreams and drama: Psychoanalytic criticism, creativity and the artist by Alan Roland “Forschen und Heilen” in der Psychoanalyse. Ergebnisse und Berichte aus Forschung und Praxis [‘Research and healing’ in psychoanalysis. Results and reports from research and practice] By Marianne Leuzinger‐Bohleber, Bernhard Rüger, Ulrich Stuhr and Manfred Beutel Mirror to nature: Drama, psychoanalysis and society By Margaret Rustin and Michael Rustin The importance of sibling relationships in psychoanalysis By Prophecy Coles Freud—Fragments d'une histoire [Freud—Fragments of a history] by Alain de Mijolla Funzione analitica e mente primitiva [Analytic function and primitive mind] By Giovanni Hautmann     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this Article:
Les balafrés du divan. Essai sur les symbolisations plurielles [Casualties of the couch. A study of composite symbol-formations] By Jean-José Baranes
Epistemología y psicoanálisis [Epistemology and psychoanalysis] by Gregorio Klimovsky
Psychotherapeutische Erstinterviews mit Kindern Winnicotts Squiggletechnik in der Praxis [Psychotherapeutic first interviews with children. Winnicott's squiggle technique in practice] by Michael Günter
In pursuit of psychic change:The Betty Joseph workshop Edited by Edith Hargreaves and Arturo Varchevker
Gleichschwebende Aufmerksamkeit und Modellbildung Eine qualitativ-systematische Einzelfallstudie zum Erkenntnisprozess des Psychoanalytikers [Evenly suspended attention and model-formation.A qualitative systematic case study of the psychoanalyst's cognitive process] by Hartmuth König
als käm ich heim zu Vater und Schwester Lou Andreas—Salome Anna Freud Briefwechsel (1919–1936) ['As if I were coming home to my father and sister.' The Lou Andreas-Salomé Anna Freud correspondence (1919–36)] Edited by Daria A. Rothe and Inge Weber     

Ferenczi and Freud – From psychoanalysis as a “professional and personal home” to the creation of a “psychoanalytic home” for the patient1

Abstract

The author explores the relationship between Sándor Ferenczi and Sigmund Freud in the light of their correspondence. This allows us to see how Freud was able to offer and create for Ferenczi a “professional and personal home” that enabled the latter to find a much more meaningful and creative contact with himself. According to the author, this experience played an important role in Ferenczi’s later readiness to offer to and create with his patients a similar “psychoanalytic home.” As Freud was not able to share such clinical research work with Ferenczi, a conflict developed between them whose nature has occupied psychoanalysts ever since, and whose seeds can be found in the 1246 letters that they exchanged between January 1908 and May 1933. From this point of view, Ferenczi’s Clinical diary (written in 1932 and published only in 1985) can be seen as the continuation of the dialogue they had entertained for so many years, as well as Ferenczi’s attempt not to give up the “professional and personal home” that they had created together.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Préhistoires de famille [Family prehistories] by Alain de Mijolla
Forme dell interpretare. Nuove prospettive nella teoria e nella clinica psicoanalitica [Forms of interpretation. New perspectives on psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice] Edited by Paolo Fabozzi
From the eclipse of the body to the dawn of thought By Armando B. Ferrari, translated by Isabella Chigi
Il counselling psicodinamico [Psychodynamic counselling] By Andreas Giannakoulas and Santa Fizzarotti Selvaggi
My life in theory By Leo Rangell
The couch and the silver screen Psychoanalytic re. ections on European cinema Edited by Andrea Sabbadini
Un ano para toda la vida: El secreto mundo emocional de la madre y su bebé [A year for the rest of life: The secret emotional world of mother and baby] By Mariela Michelena
Samuel Beckett and the primacy of love By John Robert KellerSamuel Beckett and the primacy of love By John Robert Keller     

Sándor,Gizella, Elma: A biographical journey1

In recent years, particularly with the publication of the Freud‐Ferenczi correspondence, it has become clear that the rich theoretical dialogue between Freud and Ferenczi, a dialogue that may be seen as constitutive for psychoanalytic discourse in recent decades, was intensely intertwined with their complex personal relationship. Two women‐Gizella Pálos, who eventually became Ferenczi's wife, and her daughter Elma, who was both Ferenczi's and Freud's analysand, and with whom Ferenczi fell in love‐played a crucial role in shaping the Freud‐Ferenczi relationship. Their own voices, however, have so far been barely heard. This paper is a preliminary report of a biographical research project which aims to complete the puzzle, by getting to know better Gizella, Elma and their family, with the help of numerous original sources, many of them unpublished till now. The emerging picture tends to confirm Ferenczi's initial view of Elma as a person of depth and integrity, rather than Freud's view of her as fundamentally disturbed; countertransference‐love, it is suggested, may have facilitated fuller perception rather than clouding it. The question of the impact of Elma's ‘confusion of tongues’ with Ferenczi and with Freud on her subsequent life is also discussed.     

Empathy,Tact and the Freedom to be Natural

This paper explores the concepts of tact and empathy in the context of the Freud–Ferenczi correspondence around Ferenczi’s “The Elasticity of Psycho-Analytic Technique” paper. It goes on to explore the problems that they encounter in the neighborhood of reconciling science and subjectivity, in relation to the work on personal knowledge of the Hungarian philosopher Michael Polanyi and concludes with some implications for psychoanalytic training.     

The Beginnings of Psychoanalytic Supervision: The Crucial Role of Max Eitingon

Psychoanalytic supervision is moving well into its 2nd century of theory, practice, and (to a limited extent) research. In this paper, I take a look at the pioneering first efforts to define psychoanalytic supervision and its importance to the psychoanalytic education process. Max Eitingon, the “almost forgotten man” of psychoanalysis, looms large in any such consideration. His writings or organizational reports were seemingly the first psychoanalytic published material to address the following supervision issues: rationale, screening, notes, responsibility, supervisee learning/personality issues, and the extent and length of supervision itself. Although Eitingon never wrote formally on supervision, his pioneering work in the area has continued to echo across the decades and can still be seen reflected in contemporary supervision practice. I also recognize the role of Karen Horney—one of the founders of the Berlin Institute and Poliklinik, friend of Eitingon, and active, vital participant in Eitingon’s efforts—in contributing to and shaping the beginnings of psychoanalytic education.     

The Berlin Poliklinik: psychoanalytic innovation in Weimar Germany

After Freud proposed in 1918 the creation of "institutions or out-patient clinics [where] treatment will be free," Max Eitingon, Ernst Simmel, and other progressive psychoanalysts founded the Berlin Poliklinik, a free outpatient clinic. Guided by Weimar Republic principles of "radical functionalism," the Poliklinik and its companion inpatient service, the Schloss Tegel Sanatorium, pioneered treatment and training methodologies still used--and still debated--today. Their funding strategies, statistics, and approaches to clinical problems like length of treatment tell the history of an innovative psychoanalytic institute where men and women were generally treated in equal numbers and patients (ranging in occupational status from unemployed to professional) of all ages were treated free. Franz Alexander, Karl Abraham, Theresa Benedek, Paul Federn, Otto Fenichel, Edith Jacobson, Karen Horney, Erich Fromm, Helene Deutsch, Hanns Sachs, Sándor Radó, Hermine von Hug-Hellmuth, Wilhelm Reich, Annie Reich, and Melanie Klein all worked at the Poliklinik, and from there initiated decades of original clinical theory, practice, and education.