A Brief Apocalyptic History of Psychoanalysis

Erasing Trauma
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-40434-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: The History of Psychoanalysis Series

A Brief Apocalyptic History of Psychoanalysis returns us to the birth of psychoanalysis and the trauma of castration that is its umbilicus.

The story told in this book centers on the genital mutilation endured in her childhood by Emma Eckstein, Freud’s most important patient in his abandonment of the “seduction theory.” For both cultural and personal reasons, Freud could not recognize the traumatic nature of this “Beschneidung” (circumcision), which nevertheless aroused in him deep anguish, conflating his own circumcision, the echoes of a violently anti-Semitic environment, and conflicts with his father. Taking Freud’s countertransference to Eckstein’s trauma into account leads to a radically different understanding of the origins of psychoanalysis from the one based on the solipsistic perspective of his self-analysis. Carlo Bonomi argues that the unacknowledged trauma of circumcision was inscribed in Freud’s system of thinking as an amputated legacy from which the dreams and fantasies of his closest disciples would germinate and bloom. In particular, Sándor Ferenczi, Freud’s pupil and confidant, would help to restore this wounded body, thereby laying a new foundation for psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Bonomi’s “apocalyptic” narrative will expand the conceptual horizons of psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, historians of psychoanalysis, and scholars of both gender studies and Jewish studies.

The French edition was awarded the Nicholas Abraham & Maria Torok Award 2024.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bonomi, Carlo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

Preface by Philippe Réfabert

Introduction

PART I

The woman, a castrated man

- The voice of Ferenczi

- Hatred of the woman and veneration of man

- "Dark continent"

PART II

The code

- Amyl, trimethylamin = Brit milah

- The great Lord Penis

- The blood bride

- The tomb

PART III

Transmission

- A gap as heredity

- Catasthrophe

PART IV

Closing of the circle

- Giant snakes and dragons that still live

- Gaps and substitutes

- The nose as a fetish

Postface by Philippe Réfabert

References

Über Autor(innen)

Carlo Bonomi, Ph.D., is a training and supervising analyst of the Società Italiana di Psicoanalisi Sándor Ferenczi, president of the International Sándor Ferenczi Network (ISFN), co-editor-in-chief of The Wise Baby/Il poppante saggio, and associate editor of the International Forum of Psychoanalysis.