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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     

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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     

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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     

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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.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
L'enveloppe visuelle du Moi [The visual envelope of the ego] by Guy Lavallée
Freud by Jonathan Leara
När Orfeus vände sig om [When Orpheus looked back] By Johan Beck-Friis
Die vergessene Kunst: Der Orpheusmythos und die Psychoanalyse der Musik [Forgotten art: The Orpheus myth and the psychoanalysis of music] by Sebastian Leikert
Psychotherapists as expert witnesses: Families at breaking point by Roger Kennedy
Sigmund Freud. Persönliche Erinnerungen [Sigmund Freud: Personal memories] by Isidor Sadger
Recollecting Freud by Isidor Sadger
Freud's library: A comprehensive catalogue/Freuds Bibliothek: Vollständiger Katalog edited by J. Keith Davies and Gerhard Fichtner
The Tavistock seminars; The Italian seminars by Wilfred R. Bion     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Escritos clnicos sobre perversiones y adicciones [Clinical essays on perversions and addictions] Edited by Rodolfo Moguillansky
The present moment in psychotherapy and everyday life by Daniel N. Stern
Sndor Ferenczi: El mejor discpulo de Freud [Sndor Ferenczi: Freud s best disciple] by Antoni Talarn
Blind trust: Large groups and their leaders in times of crisis and terror by Vamik Volkan
Sigmund Freud Max Eitingon, Briefwechsel 1906-1939 [Freud Eitingon correspondence,1906 1939], Vols 1 and 2 Edited by Michael Schrter
The texture of treatment: On the matter of psychoanalytic technique By Herbert J. Schlesinger
Family romance, family secrets: Case notes from an American psychoanalysis,1912 By Elizabeth Lunbeck and Bennett Simon
Hate and love in psychoanalytic institutions. The dilemma of a profession By Jurgen Reeder     

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Experiences of depression: Theoretical, clinical, and research perspectives By Sidney J. Blatt
Ides directrices pour une psychanalyse contemporaine: Mconaisssance et reconnaissance de l inconscient [Key ideas for a contemporary psychoanalysis: Misrecognition and recognition of the unconscious] By Andr Green
Via regia zum Unbewussten. Freud und die Traumforschung im 19. Jahrhundert [The royal road to the unconscious. Freud and 19th-century dream research] By Stefan Goldmann
Dark continents: Psychoanalysis and colonialism by Ranjana Khanna
L imprvu en sance [The unforeseen in sessions] by Jacques Andr
Psichiatria prossima. La psichiatria territoriale in un epoca di crisi [New directions in psychiatry. Psychiatric care in the community in a time of crisis] By Giuseppe Riefolo     

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Having a life: Self pathology after Lacan by Lewis A. Kirshner
The unsung psychoanalyst: The quiet in uence of Ruth Easser by Mary Kay O Neil
Michelangelos Moses und Freuds Wagstück Eine Collage [Michelangelo s Moses and Freud s piece of audacity. A collage] by Ilse Grubrich-Simitis
Le savoir-déporté: Camps, histoire, psychanalyse [Deported knowledge: The camps, history and psychoanalysis] by Anne-Lise Stern
Psyche, self and soul: Rethinking psychoanalysis, the self and spirituality By Gerald J. Gargiulo
Psychic trauma: Dynamics, symptoms, and treatment by Ira Brenner
From obstacle to ally: The evolution of psychoanalytic practice by Judith Hughes
Between couch and piano: Psychoanalysis, music, art, and neuroscience by Gilbert J. Rose     

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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     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Psychoanalysis, science and masculinity By Karl Figlio.
Dreams that turn over a page: Paradoxical dreams in psychoanalysis By Jean-Michel Quinodoz.
Fattori di malattia, fattori di guarigione: Genesi della sofferenza e cura psicoanalitica: [Elements of disease, elements of recovery. Genesis of suffering and psychoanalytic cure] By Antonino Ferro.
Vocabulário contemporáneo de psicanálise: [Contemporary dictionary of psychoanalysis] By David E. Zimmerman.
Le traumatique, répétition et élaboration: [Trauma, repetition and elaboration] By Anna Potamianou.
The pale criminal: Psychoanalytic perspectives By Stephen J Costello.
Dictionnaire international de la psychanalyse: [International dictionary of psychoanalysis] Edited by Alain de Mijolla.
Fundamentals of a Freudian clinic By Luís Carlos Menezes.
Disappearing persons: Shame and appearance By Benjamin Kilborne.
The social edges of psychoanalysis By Neil J Smelser. Berkeley and Los Angeles     

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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     

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Überleben und Versuche der Wiederbelebung Psychoanalytische Studien mit Überlebenden der Shoah und mit ihren Familien in Israel und in der Diaspora [Survival and efforts at revival—Psychodynamic studies of Holocaust survivors and their families in Israel and the Diaspora] by Hillel Klein
El caso Dora, más allá del diván: Diario imaginario de Ida Bauer [The Dora case, beyond the couch: The imaginary diary of Ida Bauer] by Eloísa Castellano-Maury
The twin in the transference by Vivienne Lewin
The quiet revolution in American psychoanalysis: Selected papers of Arnold M. Cooper Edited by Elizabeth L. Auchincloss
Aesthetic experience: Beauty, creativity, and the search for the ideal by George Hagman
A compulsion for antiquity: Freud and the ancient world by Richard H. Armstrong
Craft and spirit: A guide to the exploratory psychotherapies by Joseph D. Lichtenberg
Endings and beginnings: On terminating psychotherapy and psychoanalysis by Herbert J. Schlesinger     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Infant observation at the heart of training By Janine Sternberg
This art of psychoanalysis: Dreaming undreamt dreams and interrupted cries by Thomas H. Ogden
Freuds Lektüren: Von Arthur Conan Doyle bis zu Arthur Schnitzler [Freud's reading: From Arthur Conan Doyle to Arthur Schnitzler] by Michael Rohrwasser
The dissociative mind by Elizabeth Howell
Mother in psychoanalysis: A feminist view [in Hebrew] by Anat Palgi-Hecker
The body as mirror of the world by Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel
Freud along the Ganges: Psychoanalytic reflections on the people and culture of India Edited by Salman Akhtar
The American Psychiatric Publishing textbook of psychoanalysis edited by Ethel Spector Person, Arnold M. Cooper, and Glen O. Gabbard     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Hamlet. Ensayos psicoanaliticos [Hamlet: Psychoanalytic essays] Edited by Carlos Sopena
A short introduction to psychoanalysis by Jane Milton, Caroline Polmear and Julia Fabricius
Introducing psychoanalysis: Essential themes and topics edited by Susan Budd and Richard Rusbridger
Glacial times: A journey through the world of madness By Salomon Resnik, translated by Daniel Alcorn
The designed self: Psychoanalysis and contemporary identities by Carlo Strenger
Controverses sur l'autisme et témoignages [Autism: Debates and testimonies] by Denys Ribas
The telescoping of generations. Listening to the narcissistic links between generations by Haydée Faimberg     

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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     

The dual impact of Freud's death and Freud's death instinct theory on the history of psychoanalysis

Since I have ranged over a rather large territory in this presentation I will summarize my main points. I claim that the very way Freud created psychoanalysis made it impossible for it to continue to grow and develop as a unified movement after his death. Unlike other sciences, psychoanalysis had no way of differentiating its basic findings from what is yet to be discovered. I then reintroduced my differentiation between heretics, modifiers, and extenders, claiming that after Freud’s death there was less opportunity for heretics and more space for modifiers. I assigned a crucial role to the fact that Anna Freud did not succeed in expelling the Kleinians. In the second part of the paper I presented the view of those who made use of Freud’s death instinct theory and those who opposed it. Many analysts preferred to ignore dealing with it rather than state their opposition. My presentation was biased in favor of those who chose to work with the death instinct as a clinical reality,highlighting Ferenczi’s construction. I made the claim, so far as I know never made before, that Freud’s death instinct theory had a traumatic impact on the psychoanalytic movement because it greatly limited the belief in the curative power of our therapeutic work. After his announcement of the dual-instinct theory Freud withdrew his interest in psychoanalysis as a method of cure. By doing so he inflicted a narcissistic wound on psychoanalysis. I believe that the creativity of psychoanalysis will improve if we face this difficult chapter in our history.     

How translations of Freud’s writings have influenced French psychoanalytic thinking1

Translations of Freud ’s writings have had a lasting influence on psychoanalytic thinking in France. They have, all the same, given rise to some conceptual distortions as regards the ego and the id, the ideal ego and the ego ideal, and splitting. Lacan’s ‘return to Freud ’ certainly reawakened interest in Freud ’s writings; however, by focusing mainly on Freud ’s early work, Lacan’s personal reading played down the importance of the texts Freud wrote after his metapsychological papers of 1915. The fact that there is no French edition of Freud ’s complete works makes it difficult for French psychoanalysts to put them in a proper context with respect to his developments as a whole. The Oeuvres Complètes [Complete Works] edition may well turn out to be the equivalent of the Standard Edition, but it is as yet far from complete – and, since the vocabulary employed is far removed from everyday language, those volumes already in print tend to make the general public less likely to read Freud. In this paper, the author evokes certain questions that go beyond the French example, such as the impact that translations have within other psychoanalytic contexts. Now that English has become more or less the lingua franca for communication between psychoanalysts, we have to face up to new challenges if we are to avoid a twofold risk: that of mere standardization, as well as that of a ‘Babelization’ of psychoanalysis.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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Adozione e oltre [Adoption and beyond] by Claudia Artoni Schlesinger
The poetics of psychoanalysis: In the wake of Klein by Mary Jacobus
Seeds of illness, seeds of recovery By Antonino Ferro Translated by Philip Slotkin
Psychoanalysis as therapy and storytelling By Antonino Ferro Translated by Philip Slotkin
The legacy of tragedy. The tragic from Aristotle to our days edited by Andreas Giannakoulas and Sarantis Thanopulos
La sfi da dell'irrapresentabile. La prospettiva ermeneutica nella psicoanalisi clinica [The challenge of the 'un-representable'. The hermeneutic perspective in psychoanalysis] By Giuseppe Martini
Awakening the dreamer: Clinical journeys by Philip M. Bromberg
Freud's requiem: Mourning memory and the invisible history of a summer walk by Matthew von Unwerth
André Green: Associations (presque) libres d'un psychanalyste Entretiens avec Maurice Corcos [(Almost) Free associations of a psychoanalyst: Interview with Maurice Corcos] by Maurice Corcos
Le parole ritrovate. Le parole dalle immagini. Rifl essioni teoriche e percorsi analitici dalle psicosi [Words rediscovered, words from images: Psychosis: theoretical refl ections and analytic approaches] by Marina Breccia     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
The power of the inner judge: Psychodynamic treatment of the severe neuroses. By Leon Wurmser.
The cradle of thought: Exploring the origins of thinking By Peter Hobson.
Comment la féminitévient aux femmes [How femininity comes to women] By Jacqueline Godfrind
Die Logik der Psychoanalyse: Eine erkenntnistheoretische Studie [The logic of psychoanalysis: An epistemological study] By Johann August Schülein.
Adolescencia: Del goce orgànico al hallazgo de objeto [Adolescence: From organic pleasure to the finding of the object] By Susana Estela Quiroga
Weathering the storms: Psychotherapy for psychosis By Murray Jackson
Freud and the seduction theory: A brief love affair. By Kurt R. Eissler
Agonie, clivage et symbolisation [Agony, splitting and symbolisation] By René Roussillon.