'Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis' and 'Sigmund Freud and The Forsyth Case' (2 Volume Set)

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.

Volume 1.

Introduction by 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 U.S.A.

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: rationalization 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. 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: Epilogue: A fortune-teller visits Freud in Berggasse

Bibliography

Volume 2.

Prologue: Telepathy, superstitions and mushrooms

1. Coincidences of the psychoanalytic setting: a strange home visit

M. de Fortgibu and his plum pudding

The maternal in the circumstances of the setting: the psychoanalytic clock.

"All things are chained, knotted, in love..."

Coincidences in analysis

Notable examples: From Carl G. Jung; Eugenio Gaddini; José Bleger; Joyce McDougall

Telepathy, an enlightening mistake.

Freud and the "Forsyth case"

2. Forsyth arrives in Vienna to undertake a seven-week analysis with Prof Freud

The Decline of the West

Introduction to Psycho-Analysis: the first twenty-eight Lectures

Hunger in Vienna

Parcels from England

A passage to Austria

A moment of forgetfulness by Freud

3. Herr P. ends his analysis with Prof. Freud in a rather extraordinary way

New introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

The "Forsyth case"

Solve et coagula

The Postscript of a Preface

4. The Duellists

Meeting in Zurich

The duellists

The first training analysis in Budapest

Forsyth, the pediatrician "once a friend of mine."

5. Nachträglichkeit: Following the traces of a long deferral

Freud becomes a heretic: the debate about the "transmission of thought" within the Committee

A mistake by Freud

The memorable Harzreise

1921, an essay in two halves: Vorbericht-Preface, Nachtrag-Postscript

1922, Dreams and Telepathy

Perplexities, second thoughts and experiments with Ferenczi and Anna

1925, section C: "The Occult Significance of Dreams"

Still playing for time

1933, Lecture XXX, "Dream and Occultism"

The gold coin

6. The disappeared-occulted manuscript

The posthumous publication of the Vorbericht (1921) in "Psychoanalysis and Telepathy" (1941) and the disappearance of the Nachtrag

Hide and seek

Back to Freud's secret text: found in translation

7. Sigmund Freud: Postscript (1921)

8. Manuscript details, slips and errors

Conditions and details

Freud’s "errors" and the occulted "dritte Fall"

Nachträglichkeit and reconstructions

9. During the great war

Circumstances

A coming-of-age prematurely interrupted

Freud’s forced inactivity: the Metapsychology and the Introductory Lectures

Impotence and death anxiety. Towards the uncanny defeat

Ernest Jones’s war

Ferenczi's kisses

10. Coincidences in Vienna: a week of fireworks in autumn 1919

The new orientation towards the West

The heart towards the Est

11. The strange case of Dr. Forsyth and Mr. Vorsicht: the build-up

The "secret language"

The Man of Property

Staging: the Preconscious at work

Correspondences

The Fortsein game: The troublesome individual and a first repression; The missed appointment; The coincidence of the "neighbours"; The joke of the "home visit"; An ambivalent gift

12. The strange case of Dr. Forsyth and Mr. Vorsicht: the session

Vorsicht, Forsyth, Forsyte

The visiting card

The Freud-Freund slip

The Nightmare and Jones monograph on the "Alptraum"

The faulty translations

13. That Forsyte woman

Return to the mothers – Telepathy, "distant proximity"

Don Giovanni: Zitto, mi pare sentire odor di femmina....

14. Retrospective: the lost scene

Caritas Romana: "This is the place, this is the source"

A destiny and a choice made long ago

"Little Freud": a child is being conceived

Me too!

15. A hereditary transmission

A daughter is being analysed

Lou Andreas Salomé: a mother-sister

Thought-transmission? A pair of twin papers: The father’s text; The daughter’s text

"Lifedeath"

"Not to be there": the process of separation and the game of Fortsein

Anna, Antigone

16. 1932 "Dreams and Occultism" and the Confusion of tongues

17. "Herr Vorsicht", alias Paul Bernfeld

"The eldest of a family of eight or nine children"

The firm of Paul Bernfeld and Heinrich Rosenberg, B & R: jokes and repetitions by the preconscious

18 A secret in the "Premise": about the substitute of the Third Case

19. Dr. David Forsyth leaves the scene and the story. Circumstances of the birth of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis

Seven Weeks in Vienna

The Forsyth affaire

Forsyth leaves the scene

20. The Freud’s final orientation towards the West: from Vienna to London

"Fortsein": Professor Freud is has "gone" away

Fort-Da. The return: story of a Cap

21. The importance of being Ernest Jones. The cycle closes

Transmission of the tradition and "crypts"

Free associations: memories of a psycho-analyst

Epilogue: A debt to pay

Bibliography