The Wolf Man's Magic Word: A Cryptonymy (Volume 37) (Theory and History of Literature)

The Wolf Man's Magic Word reopens the examination of the "Wolf Man," a Russian emigre who was Freud's patient and who wrote his own memoirs. Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok's work is at once the account of the Wolf Man's psychological inventions, a reading of his dreams and symptoms, and a critique of basic Freudian notions. With an introductory essay by Jacques Derrida. Contents 9 Foreword: Fors: The Anglish Words of Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok 12 Acknowledgments 50 Translator's Introduction: Toward a Cryptonymy of Literature 52 1. A Theory of Readability 52 2. The Wolf Man and Psychoanalysis in the Mirror of Narratology 53 3. Cryptonymy: A Design in Fiction or Reality? 57 4. The Literary Uses of Cryptonymy: The Red and the Black, Author of Stendhal 61 5. Deconstructing and Decrypting: Jacques Derrida and The Wolf Man's Magic Word 67 Introduction: Five Years with the Wolf Man 71 I. The Magic Word: Incorporation, Internal Hysteria, Cryptonymy 74 The "Break" 75 Chapter 1. The Wolf Man and His Internal World 76 1. Wolf Man, Who Are You? First Hypotheses and Constructions: Who He Is Not 76 2. The Wolf Man's Old Age: Some Later Effects of Incorporation 78 3. The Symptom of the Nose and the "Group Dynamics" of the Internal Characters 80 4. The Dramaturgy of the Unconscious on Ruth Mack Brunswick's Couch 83 Chapter 2. Behind the Inner World 89 1. An Impromptu Walk through a Verbarium: Cryptonyms and What They Hide 89 2. Behind the Scenes: Internal Hysteria–Setting up and Working a Machinery 93 3. The Fourth Act: On Freud's Couch–The Wolf Man as unto Himself 95 II. The Nightmare of the Wolves: Contribution to the Analysis of Dreams, Slips, and Phobias 100 Chapter 3. The Nightmare of the Wolves 102 1. The Request for Truth 102 2. And Language as Truth Guard 103 3. The Interpretation of the Nightmare of the Wolves 106 4. Synopsis of the Nightmare of the Wolves 111 5. From the Nightmare to Phobia 112 III. The Return of the Nightmare: The Crypt's Permanence 114 Chapter 4. In Some of Little Sergei's Dreams and Symptoms 116 1. The Dream of the Lion 116 2. Slip of the Pen: "Filivs-Fils" 116 3. Acting out at V O'Clock 117 4. The Butterfly's V 117 5. Laborer with the Tongue Cut Out, Enema, Pressed Pimple, Espe 118 6. The Sister's VI 119 7. The Word-Thing Tieret, Grusha-Matrona 119 8. The Dreams of the Caterpillar, the Devil with the Snail, and the Celestial Bodies 120 9. Hallucination of the Little Finger Cut Through 120 10. Sensitivity of the Little "Finger" . . . on the Foot 121 Chapter 5. The Crypt Screen: Reinterpretation of the Symptoms and Dreams Related 122 1. Analysis Free of Charge and Gifts of Money 122 2. The Concealment of the Jewels 123 3. Father's Remorse 123 4. A Lying Nose and the Tooth of Truth 123 5. The Misfortunes of a Silent Witness 124 6. The False "False Witness" and the Rank Affair 125 7. Is It You or Is It Not You? 127 Chapter 6. Is a Witness Always False? 128 1. The Dream of the Jewels 128 2. The Dream of the Sleigh 130 3. The Dream of the Gypsy Woman 131 4. The Dream of the Father with the Hooked Nose 131 5. The Dream of the Word Ganz 131 6. The Dream of the Celestial Bodies 132 7. The Dream of the Gray Wolves 134 Chapter 7. The Turning Point: A Truthful Witness 138 1. The Dream of the Icons 139 2. The Clarified Wolf Dream 140 3. The Dream of the Skyscraper 143 4. The Dream about Criminal Law 144 5. The Dream of the Young Austrian 145 6. The Double Dream of the Generous Doctor and the Page 145 7. The Dream of the Two Dermatologists 147 8. On the Contradiction Implied in the Fact of "Witnessing" 148 9. Can the Wolf Man Be Analyzed, and How? 148 IV. The Speech of the Word or the Rhymes and the Thing 150 Chapter 8. The Wolf Man's Cryptonymy 152 1. The Broken Symbol 152 2. The Word and Meaning 153 3. "Where I Was There Should Be It": The Thing 154 4. Twofold Fantasy Life: Symptoms and Dreams 155 5. Rhymes 155 6. The Silent Word 156 Afterword: What Is Occult in Occultism? Between Sigmund Freud and Sergei Pankeiev Wolf Man 157 Appendix: The Wolf Man's Verbarium 180 Notes 190 Index 200 A 200 B 200 C 200 D 201 E 201 F 201 G 202 H 202 I 202 J 202 K 202 M 203 N 203 O 203 P 203 R 204 S 204 T 204 U 205 V 205 W 205 Grand classique de la psychanalyse française et mondiale de l'après-guerre, *Le Verbier de l'homme aux loups* – publié jadis par les soins de Jacques Derrida – est peut-être la pièce maîtresse de l'œuvre, saluée désormais comme révolutionnaire, de Nicolas Abraham (1919-1975) et de Maria Torok (1925- 1998). Lors de sa parution en 1976, Jacques Derrida disait du *Verbier* : «Exhumé, extrait de sa crypte profonde, surchargé de signes, un texte monumental est traîné vers la lumière, exposé à une lecture dont l'audace et l'efficacité se mesurent l'une à l'autre.» En effet, une réélaboration du champ psychanalytique s'est imposée depuis lors – dans la continuité d'un autre aventurier de la pensée, Sandor Ferenczi – au sein de la descendance de l'école hongroise de psychanalyse, dont on continuera, au XXIe siècle, de mesurer les richesses conceptuelles et les profondeurs humaines. ([Flammarion](https://editions.flammarion.com/le-verbier-de-l-homme-aux-loups/9782080814258))