Psychoanalytic Memoirs

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The first book-length study of the psychoanalytic memoir, this book examines key examples of the genre, including Sigmund Freud’s mistitled An Autobiographical Study, Helene Deutsch’s Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue, Wilfred Bion’s War Memoirs 1917-1919, Masud Khan’s The Long Wait, Sophie Freud’s Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family, and Irvin D. Yalom and Marilyn Yalom’s A Matter of Death and Life. Offering in each chapter a brief character sketch of the memoirist, the book shows how personal writing fits into their other work, often demonstrating the continuities and discontinuities in an author’s life as well as discussing each author’s contributions to psychoanalysis, whether positive or negative. Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction A History of Psychology in Autobiography A Note on Terminology The Plan of This Book Doing Justice to Mental Life Chapter 1: Sigmund Freud: An Autobiographical Study The Interpretation of Dreams “Unbridled Ambition” Hero Worship Freud’s Defensiveness Splendid Isolation? Creative Illness Biography, Autobiography, and Psychobiography Freud’s Jewishness The Pope of Psychoanalysis “Insufficiently Analyzed” Sphinx-like Keeping and Betraying Secrets Dying in Harness Chapter 2: The Wolf-Man: Memoirs Freud’s Case Study “Recollections of My Childhood”: Early Traumatic Losses A Heroic Vision of Freud The Wolf-Man: Conversations with Freud’s Patient—Sixty Years Later Admiring the Creator, Not the Creation Returning to Suicide Ambivalence toward Literature And Ambivalence toward Life Writing Another Psychoanalytic Interpretation of the Story Chapter 3: Helene Deutsch: Confrontations with Myself—an Epilogue Beauty and Intelligence Pursuing Great Expectations A Puzzling Sentence L. Felix Deutsch “Alone in His Heroic Fight for Truth!” Anna Freud Writing about Her Son Complicated Grief Chapter 4: Wilhelm Stekel: Autobiography Anticipating Problems Inspired by Rousseau Wild Analysis Stekel’s Early Life “The Apostle of Freud” Masturbation Insights into Freud Confessions of a Psychoanalyst Case Study as Disguised Autobiography Ernest Jones and Free Associations Stekel’s Death Stekel and Salinger—and Otto Ludwig Chapter 5: C.G. Jung: Memories, Dreams, Reflections “Thankless Autobiographer” Jung’s Parents “My First Conscious Trauma” The Man-Eater The Little Manikin Sexual Trauma Freud The Freud/Jung Letters Sabina Spielrein “The Rest Is Silence” Unlocking the Gates A Dangerous Experiment Storytelling and Narrative Medicine Freud and Jung Chapter 6: Wilfred R. Bion: War Memoirs 1917–19 War Memoirs 1917–19 Anticipating Hemingway Writing and Rewriting a Soldier’s Death The Repetition-Compulsion Principle Confronting One’s Younger Self Ghosts and Ancestors Chapter 7: Marion Milner: On Not Being Able to Paint A Life of One’s Own An Experiment in Leisure The Human Problem in Schools On Not Being Able to Paint The Angry Parrot The Hands of the Living God Eternity’s Sunrise Bothered by Alligators Appreciating Milner Chapter 8: M. Masud R. Khan: The Long Wait The Literary Khan “The Old Fox” Khan’s Anti-Semitism Boundary Violations Evaluating Masud Khan Chapter 9: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson: Final Analysis Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess The Assault on Truth A Dark Science Against Therapy Final Analysis Narcissistic Personality Disorder My Father’s Guru Janet Malcolm Chapter 10: F. Robert Rodman: Not Dying Survivor Guilt The Impact of a Therapist’s Illness on His Patients Winnicott Rodman’s Training Analyst Stefania Magidson Chapter 11: Louis Breger: Psychotherapy Lives Intersecting Dostoevsky: The Author as Psychoanalyst Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision A Dream of Undying Fame Psychotherapy Lives Intersecting Breger’s Patients The Book of Barbara Intersecting with Breger’s Life Chapter 12: Brenda Webster: The Last Good Freudian Ethel Schwabacher Analysis Terminable and Interminable The Illegacy of Suicide Vienna Triangle Chapter 13: Madelon Sprengnether: Crying at the Movies Crying at the Movies The Satisfactions of Reading Sprengnether and Sylvia Plath Mourning Freud Ghosts into Ancestors Chapter 14: Sophie Freud: Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family Troubled from the Beginning Deepening Our Understanding of Psychology: The Worry Child Anna Freud Life Review Writing as Exorcism Conclusion: Irvin D. Yalom and Marilyn Yalom—A Matter of Death and Life Critical of Psychoanalysis His Muse A Portrait of the Therapist as a Younger Man A Lifeline “Two Eternities of Darkness” Works Cited Index