Reconceptualizing Psychoanalytic History

2009 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-268
Author(s):  
Bruce Rudisch
Keyword(s):  
Psychoanalytic History

Contributions to the History of Psychology: XXXVII. Katherine Jones (1892–1983)

1985 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Joyce Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
English Translation ◽  
History Of Psychology ◽  
Psychoanalytic History ◽  
History Of

Katherine Jones, “recipient of a ring” and disciple of Sigmund Freud, deserves a place in psychoanalytic history. Without her, Ernest, her husband, might not have been able to write his three-volume biography of Sigmund Freud and quite possibly The International Psychoanalytic Journal, which furthered the psychoanalytic movement in England and America, might never have been printed. Her greatest contribution, the English translation of Freud's last significant book, Moses and Monotheism, merits credit long overdue.

Master plots: Psychoanalysis and Catholicism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Moran
Keyword(s):  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Psychoanalytic Treatment ◽  
Master Plots ◽  
Psychoanalytic History ◽  
The Face ◽  
Psychic Distress

This chapter explores the two main interpretative frameworks White adopted to conceptualise a sense of self in the face of her recurrent psychic distress and inexplicable behaviour. White’s entrance into psychoanalytic treatment coincided with a moment in psychoanalytic history in which the thinking about female sexuality centred upon the ‘female castration complex’. White’s diary provides unmistakeable evidence that she developed an explanation for her illness that was heavily influenced by the ideas of Karl Abraham, who initiated this line of psychoanalytic theorising and who profoundly shaped British psychoanalysis. The recurrence of symptoms following her supposed ‘cure’ impelled White to reconvert to Catholicism at the end of 1940. White’s letters and diary show how she superimposes Catholic doctrine on that of psychoanalysis. Together these interpretative frameworks worked to affirm the centrality of father-daughter eroticism in White’s identity narrative.

scholarly journals Revisiting Psychoanalytic History

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-392
Author(s):  
Brian Connolly
Keyword(s):  
Psychoanalytic History

A Brief Story about Dr. Hermine Hug-Hellmuth

1986 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 586-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Maclean
Keyword(s):  
Vantage Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
First Person ◽  
Doctorate Degree ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
Important Others ◽  
Psychoanalytic History ◽  
The University ◽  
Child Observation

Dr. Hermine Hug-Hellmuth was the world's first practicing child psychoanalyst. From this vantage point of being the first person to apply psychoanalysis to the treatment of children, she was also the first person to make use of systematic child observation from a psychoanalytic point of view (1). In addition Dr. Hug-Hellmuth was among the very first of the lay adherents to psychoanalysis to practice psychoanalysis (2). Further, she was one of the first women to obtain a doctorate degree in physics from the University of Vienna. We see that in all these aspects, as a woman, with a lay education, practicing psychoanalysis with children and employing psychoanalytic child observation, she was the first, or among the very first. In this perspective her pioneer status becomes understood to be very important. Others followed and psychoanalysis grew and flourished as did the contributions and the stature of those who would become giants of psychoanalytic history. In part, it was in the shadows of these later giants that the memory of Dr. Hug-Hellmuth has faded.

The Dynamics of Erasure: Anti-Semitism and the Example of Ludwig Lewisohn

Prospects ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 391-404
Author(s):  
Gordon Hutner
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
The United States ◽  
Recent Experience ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Jewish Immigration ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Psychoanalytic History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Significant Achievement

“A recent experience has shown me how terribly hard it is for a man of Jewish birth to get a good position. I had always suspected that it was a matter worth considering, but I had not known how widespread and strong it was. While we shall be glad to do anything we can for you, therefore, I cannot help feeling that the chances are going to be greatly against you.” These words, in 1903, imputed to the chairman of the English Department at Columbia University effectively put an end to Ludwig Lewisohn's dream of becoming a professor of English. The humiliation was so severe that Lewisohn spent most of the next fifty years examining the role of the alien in a gentile country, the Jew in America. He transformed the hatred and shame he suffered into a writing career, of some forty-three volumes, remarkable for its productivity, variety, frankness, and occasional distinction. A critic, journalist, cultural analyst, scholar, translater, polemicist, drama reviewer, editor, and memorist, he perhaps delighted most in being a novelist. A few of his ten novels were celebrated, most especially The Case of Mr. Crump (1926), for which Thomas Mann provided an introduction and which Sigmund Freud hailed as a masterpiece depicting the “tyranny of sex” (as the novel was retitled after being banned in the United States for twenty years), and Island Within; (1928), for some readers as fine a novel of Jewish immigration as has been written. As a literary critic, however, Lewisohn's most significant achievement was surely Expression in America; (1932), the first fullscale psychoanalytic history of American literature, a monumental study of artistic personality and the effect of milieu, later reprinted as The Story of American Literature (1939).

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