Reading Freud’s Patients: Memoir, Narrative, and the Analysand

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Series editor’s foreword
Prologue
1. Psychoanalytic space and writing space
	Introduction
	Psychoanalytic writing and case studies
	Analytic narratives from the patient’s point of view
	Psychoanalysis, translation, and writing
2. Fragments of an Analysis with Freud by Joseph Wortis: criticism and longing
	Introduction to Wortis’s Fragments
	Resistances in the analytic encounter
	Longing for an unattainable object
	The work of memory and mourning in intertextual contexts
	Impasse and a momentary encounter
3. Diary of My Analysis with Sigmund Freud by Smiley Blanton: from a deadlock of silence to the act of writing
	Introduction to Blanton’s Diary
	The inspiring figure of the analyst
	Freud as the writer of The Interpretation of Dreams
	Analytic and textual dialog on areas of controversy
	Blanton’s narrative of separation
	The search for the fragmented voice
	The need for love and recognition
4. My Analysis with Freud: Reminiscences by Abram Kardiner: memory, mourning, and writing
	Introduction to Kardiner’s Reminiscences
	Kardiner’s work of memory
	The challenge of reminiscence
	The termination phase of analysis
	The absence of the mother
	Work of memory and mourning through writing
5. An American Psychiatrist in Vienna, 1935–1937, and His Sigmund Freud by John Dorsey: “My Sigmund Freud”
	Introduction to Dorsey’s Sigmund Freud
	Enchantment and separation in transference
	The representation of a muted termination
	Telling a story in psychoanalysis and in writing
6. The Wolf Man and Sigmund Freud by Sergei Pankejeff: between a case study and a memoir
	Introduction to Pankejeff’s The Wolf Man and Sigmund Freud
	One book, four authors
	Lifting the veil
	A retranslation of the case study
	Separation from Freud as an analyst and as a biographer
	Termination from an interminable analysis
7. Tribute to Freud by Hilda Doolittle (H. D.): between the analytic and the poetic
	Introduction to H. D.’s Tribute to Freud
	The memoir as a call to memory
	The gift of the memoir
	Analysis as home
	Freud and H.D.: paternal and maternal transference
	Two poets, two lost children: H. D. and Mignon
8. The creation of voice in psychoanalysis and literature
	Writing and psychoanalysis as a work of memory
	Writing and psychoanalysis as a work of mourning
	Freud: paternal and maternal transference
	Translating the enigmatic messages of the other
Epilogue: psychoanalysis terminable and interminable
References
Index