Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis - Maria Pierri

Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis

Freud, Ferenczi and the Challenge of Thought Transference

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Buch | Hardcover
276 Seiten
2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-15953-9 (ISBN)
149,60 inkl. MwSt
Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis traces the origins of key psychoanalytic ideas back to their roots in hypnosis and the occult. Maria Pierri follows Freud’s early interest in ‘thought-transmission’, now known as telepathy.
Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis traces the origins of key psychoanalytic ideas back to their roots in hypnosis and the occult.

Maria Pierri follows Freud’s early interest in "thought-transmission," now known as telepathy. Freud’s private investigations led to discussions with other leading figures like Carl Jung and Sándor Ferenczi, with whom he held a "dialogue of the unconsciouses." Freud’s and Ferenczi’s work assessed how fortune tellers could read the past from a client, inspiring their investigations into countertransference, the analytic relationship, unconscious communication, and mother-infant relationality. Both Freud and Ferenczi tried in different ways to come close to understanding the infant’s occult link with the mother and their secret primal language: their research on thought transference may be identified as a matrix of the developments of current psychoanalysis. Pierri clearly links modern psychoanalytic practice with Freud’s interests in the occult using primary sources, some of which have never previously been published in English.

Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, as well as academics and scholars of Freudian ideas, psychoanalytic theory, the history of psychology, and the occult. It is complemented by Sigmund Freud and The Forsyth Case: Coincidences and Thought-Transmission in Psychoanalysis.

Maria Pierri is a psychiatrist and child neuropsychiatrist, formerly researcher and adjunct professor at the Psychiatric Clinic, Medical School, University of Padua. She is a training analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and International Psychoanalytical Association and member of the editorial board of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi.

Introduction

Stefano Bolognini

Prologue: a result of character: the cocaine, this magical substance

1. Vienna, Porta Orientis of the Unconscious

The force of suggestion: the "wonderful somnambulists"

Hypnosis

Vienna, laboratory of modernity

2. The Young Freud

A passionate young researcher into nature

First love

Martha and Bertha: the languages of passion

3. The Lesson of Jean Martin Charcot

At the Salpêtrière

The apparatus of language

The magic of words

4. The lesson of Josef Breuer and the "descent to the mothers"

Studies on hysteria

A difficult separation: not all debts can be paid

A foundation myth: a false pregnancy and a cure with a defect.

5. Sigmund Freud’s lesson

The discovery of a false connection

Irma’s throat and the feminine at the origin of psychoanalysis.

Dream as desire

6. Fliess and the invention of psychoanalysis

A secret correspondence

My friend in Berlin

Freud’s heart trouble

7. The discovery of infantile sexuality

Self-analysis and the writing cure

Cherchez la femme: the case of Emma Eckstein

8. Original thought requires a rupture

The "reader of thoughts"

The accusation of plagiarism

A future in the image of the past: predestination and superstition

9. Occultism made in the USA

Spiritualism

Medium, media, and "mental telegraphy"

First hypotheses about the unconscious

10 Jung, spiritualism, and countertransference: the world of the dead

Jung, Poltergeist phenomena, and séances

The arrival at Burghölzli

First visit to Vienna

Easter 1909: Jung’s spiritual complex and Sabina

The dangerous fascination of the "beautiful Jewess"

11. Ferenczi, the unclassifiable

The sultan and his "clairvoyant"

A psychoanalyst "of a restless mind"

Ferenczi and the hidden treasure of Spiritualism

The encounter with Freud: a postponed transferential appointment

12. A journey to America

Three men and an eventful, mutually analytic crossing: the outward journey…

… and back again

13. The Danaan gift

The clairvoyant who reads Ferenczi’s mind

The patient who reads Ferenczi’s mind

The Palermo incident, or the interpretation of paranoia

The psychic work of the clairvoyant: two unfulfilled prophecies

14. An epistolary novel

Ferenczi and incestuous countertransferential storms: from mother to daughter

What is still missing is the fatherly blessing: fatefulness and Oedipal coincidences

Elma Pàlos, fragment of the analysis of a seduction

The open wound in Ferenczi’s heart, a source of creativity

15. The Saturday goy: getting to know Dr Jones

The Welsh liar

Difficult beginnings

Freud’s first pupil from Britain

Dr Jones’s stethoscope: rationalisation and censorship of excess countertransference

A prescribed training analysis in Budapest

16. The intergenerational transmission of psychoanalysis

Love and death: the three women of the three pupils

"If you go to women, don't forget the whip"

At school with Freud: the transmission of psychoanalysis

17. The secret committee

The transformations and the desertion of Jung

A missed meeting: the "Kreuzlingen gesture"

The Committee: the Männerbund and the defence of the "Cause" (Die Sache)

Totem and taboo: unconscious intelligence and intergenerational transmission of thought

18. 1913 - the year before the war

The last congress with Jung

A black tide of occultism

The question of telepathy

The dialogues of the unconscious

Epilogue: a fortune-teller visits Freud in Berggasse

Correspondence

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The History of Psychoanalysis Series
Übersetzer Adam Elgar
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10 1-032-15953-7 / 1032159537
ISBN-13 978-1-032-15953-9 / 9781032159539
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