Reading Freud’s Patients: Memoir, Narrative And The Analysand (the History Of Psychoanalysis Series)

**Winner of the 2021 ABAPsa Book Prize Award!** What would the story of analysis look like if it were told through the eyes of the analysand? How would the patient write and present the analytic experience? How would the narrative as written by the analysand differ from the analytic narrative commonly offered by the analyst? What do the actual analytic narratives written by Freud’s patients look like? This book aims to confront these intriguing questions with an innovative reading of memoirs by Freud’s patients. These patients—including Sergei Pankejeff, known as the Wolf Man; the poet H. D.; and the American psychoanalyst Abram Kardiner—all came to Vienna specially to meet Freud and embark with him on the intimate and thrilling journey of deciphering the unconscious and unravelling the secrets of the psyche. A broad psychoanalytic and literary-historical reading of their memoirs is offered in this new entry to the popular Routledge History of Psychoanalysis Series, with the purpose of presenting the analysands' narratives as they themselves recounted them. This makes it possible to re-examine the links among psychoanalysis, literature, and translation and sheds new light on the complex challenge of coming to know oneself through the encounter with otherness. This book is unique in its focus on multiple memoirs by patients of Freud and presents a fresh, even startling, close-up look at psychoanalysis as a clinical practice and as a rigorous discourse and offers a new vision of Freud’s strengths and, at times, defects. It will be of considerable interest to scholars of psychoanalysis and intellectual history, as well as those with a wider interest in literature and memoir. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Series editor’s foreword Prologue 1. Psychoanalytic space and writing space Introduction Psychoanalytic writing and case studies Analytic narratives from the patient’s point of view Psychoanalysis, translation, and writing 2. Fragments of an Analysis with Freud by Joseph Wortis: criticism and longing Introduction to Wortis’s Fragments Resistances in the analytic encounter Longing for an unattainable object The work of memory and mourning in intertextual contexts Impasse and a momentary encounter 3. Diary of My Analysis with Sigmund Freud by Smiley Blanton: from a deadlock of silence to the act of writing Introduction to Blanton’s Diary The inspiring figure of the analyst Freud as the writer of The Interpretation of Dreams Analytic and textual dialog on areas of controversy Blanton’s narrative of separation The search for the fragmented voice The need for love and recognition 4. My Analysis with Freud: Reminiscences by Abram Kardiner: memory, mourning, and writing Introduction to Kardiner’s Reminiscences Kardiner’s work of memory The challenge of reminiscence The termination phase of analysis The absence of the mother Work of memory and mourning through writing 5. An American Psychiatrist in Vienna, 1935–1937, and His Sigmund Freud by John Dorsey: “My Sigmund Freud” Introduction to Dorsey’s Sigmund Freud Enchantment and separation in transference The representation of a muted termination Telling a story in psychoanalysis and in writing 6. The Wolf Man and Sigmund Freud by Sergei Pankejeff: between a case study and a memoir Introduction to Pankejeff’s The Wolf Man and Sigmund Freud One book, four authors Lifting the veil A retranslation of the case study Separation from Freud as an analyst and as a biographer Termination from an interminable analysis 7. Tribute to Freud by Hilda Doolittle (H. D.): between the analytic and the poetic Introduction to H. D.’s Tribute to Freud The memoir as a call to memory The gift of the memoir Analysis as home Freud and H.D.: paternal and maternal transference Two poets, two lost children: H. D. and Mignon 8. The creation of voice in psychoanalysis and literature Writing and psychoanalysis as a work of memory Writing and psychoanalysis as a work of mourning Freud: paternal and maternal transference Translating the enigmatic messages of the other Epilogue: psychoanalysis terminable and interminable References Index "What would the story of analysis look like if it were told through the eyes of the analysand? How would the patient write and present the analytic experience? How would the narrative as written by the analysand differ from the analytic narrative commonly offered by the analyst? What do the actual analytic narratives written by Freud's patients look like? This book aims to confront these intriguing questions with an innovative reading of memoirs by Freud's patients. These patients-including Sergei Pankejeff, known as the Wolf Man; the poet H. D.; and the American psychoanalyst Abram Kardiner-all came to Vienna especially to meet Freud and embark with him on the intimate and thrilling journey of deciphering the unconscious and unravelling the secrets of the psyche. A broad psychoanalytic and literary-historical reading of their memoirs is offered in this new entry to the popular Routledge History of Psychoanalysis Series, with the purpose of presenting the analysands' narratives as they themselves recounted them. This makes it possible to re-examine the links among psychoanalysis, literature, and translation and sheds new light on the complex challenge of coming to know oneself through the encounter with otherness. This book is unique in its focus on multiple memoirs by patients of Freud and presents a fresh, even startling, close-up look at psychoanalysis as a clinical practice and as a rigorous discourse and offers a new vision of Freud's strengths and, at times, defects. It will be of considerable interest to scholars of psychoanalysis and intellectual history, as well as those with a wider interest in literature and memoir"-- Provided by publisher