The Cut and the Building of Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi, Volume 2

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The Cut and the Building of Psychoanalysis Volume II explores how the unformulated trauma associated with surgery performed on Emma Eckstein's genitalia, and the hallucinations that Eckstein experienced, influenced Freud's self-analysis, oriented his biological speculations, and significantly influenced one of his closest followers, Sandor Ferenczi. This thought-provoking and incisive work shows how Ferenczi filled the gaps left open in Freud's system and proved to be a useful example for examining how such gaps are transmitted from one mind to another. The first of three parts explores how the mind of the child was viewed prior to Freud, what events led Freud to formulate and later abandon his theory of actual trauma, and why Freud turned to the phylogenetic past. Bonomi delves deeper into Freud's self-analysis in part two and reexamines the possible reasons that led Freud to discard the impact and effects of trauma. The final part explores the interpersonal effects of Freud's self-dissection dream, arguing that Ferenczi managed to dream aspects of Freud's self-dissection dream on various occasions, which helped him to incorporate a part of Freud's psyche that Freud had himself failed to integrate. This book questions the subject of a woman's body, using discourse between Freud and Ferenczi to build a more integrated and accurate narrative of the origins and theories of psychoanalysis. It will therefore be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychologists and social scientists, as well as historians of medicine, science and human rights. Bonomi's work introduces new arguments to the contemporary debate surrounding Female Genital Mutilation. Cover Title Copyright Contents List of figures Gaps, miracles, and ghosts: Introduction to Volume II PART I Theory in context 1 Infantile amnesia 2 Rise and fall of the seduction theory 3 Primal fantasies, biotrauma, and shock PART II The abyss 4 The fatal needle 5 The blood covenant 6 The timeless unconscious: Part I 7 The timeless unconscious: Part II 8 Necropolis PART III Transmission 9 Mute correspondence: I Catabasis 10 Mute correspondence: II Epopteia 11 Thalassa: A reparative fantasy 12 A blind spot 13 Nightmares are real 14 Freud and Ferenczi on the Acropolis 15 Flight into sanity Bibliographic references Index