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CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN PSYCHOANALYSIS Copyrighted Material Copyrighted Material CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN PSYCHOANALYSIS Essays in History and Method John E. Gedo ~ THE ANALYTIC PRESS Copyrighted Material Copyright © 1986 by The Analytic Press. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microform, retrieval system, or any other means, without the prior written permission of the publisher. The Analytic Press Distributed solely by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers 365 Broadway Hillsdale, New Jersey 07642 Libnuy of Congress Catalogiog-io-Publication Data Gedo, John E. Conceptual issues in psychoanalysis. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Psychoanalysis-History. 2. Psychoanalysis. I. Title. [DNLM: 1. Psychoanalysis- history. 2. Psychoanalytic Theory. WM 460 G296c] RC503.G43 1986 150.19'5'09 86-1245 ISBN 0-88163-050-0 Copyrighted Material I dedicate this book to the coming generation of psychoanalytic theorists, in the hope that they will be able to look upon our travails with pity and forebearance. Copyrighted Material Copyrighted Material Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix Introduction 1. FLUCTUAT NEC MERGITUR 3 Historical Section 2. SIGMUND FREUD'S CHARACTER AND THE DEFINITION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS 17 3. SANDOR FERENCZ!: THE FIRST PSYCHOANALYTIC DISSIDENT 36 4. THE LOYAL OPPOSITION OF LOUISE VON SALOME 51 5. KANT'S WAY: THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL CHALLENGE OF DAVID RAPAPORT 62 6. THE DOCTRINE OF MELANIE KLEIN: VITALISM, INNATE IDEAS, AND THE SUBVERSION OF REASON 82 7. A HERO OF OUR TIME: THE DISSIDENCE OF HEINZ KOHUT 99 8. BARRED FROM THE PROMISED LAND: HEINZ KOHUT IN THE WILDERNESS 116 Intermezzo 9. THE LESSONS OF HISTORY AND THE CHALLENGE OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD 135 Methodological Section 10. CAVEAT LECTOR: PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY AND THE DIRECT OBSERVATION OF BEHAVIOR 147 vii Copyrighted Material viii CONTENTS 11. ON THE DAWN OF EXPERIENCE: THE PAST RECAPTURED 160 12. THE LEGACY OF INFANCY AND THE TECHNIQUE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS 173 13. RELEVANCE OR REDUCTIONISM IN INTERPRETATION: A REPRISE OF THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF KLEIST'S PUPPET THEATER 186 Epilogue 14. MORE ON THE ESSENCE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: SELF-CREATION AND VOCABULARIES OF MORAL DELIBERATION 203 REFERENCES 217 INDEX 231 Copyrighted Material Acknowledgments Historical and methodological studies in psychoanalysis present the scholar with daunting obstacles. The challenge of mastering the skills of the intellectual historian and of the epistemologist, in addition to the subject matter of our own discipline, has discouraged activity in this important aspect of our field. My own hesitant efforts, which were to culminate in the present volume, began with the encourage ment of various colleagues who entrusted me with special assign ments to assess one or another significant development of the psy choanalytic past or present. For this book, I have made a fresh start on most of these topics, and I offer versions revised in important respects in the few instances that reuse portions of previously pub lished work. It seems fitting, nonetheless, to acknowledge the man ner in which my interest in the specific topics covered in this volume was initially aroused. My first commission to study the intellectual history of psycho analysis came from Germany. The journal Psyche asked me for a re view of Ferenczi's contributions when, in the late 1960s, his collected works were reissued in German. That task occupied me for the better part of a year and taught me how difficult it is to place the work of an individual author into the context of his own time. Around 1970, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly asked me to assess the psychoanalytic writ ings of David Rapaport. It is noteworthy that the editor, Jacob Arlow, felt the need for such a special article because the Quarterly had not been able to procure an acceptable review of the 1967 edition of Rapaport' s Collected Papers. When I immersed myself in the study of his immense oeuvre, I could well understand the general reluctance to undertake such time-consuming Jabors requiring perfectionistic at tention to detail. My awareness of the importance of the responses of Lou Andreas Salome to the psychoanalytic controversies of her day was one result of preparing a review of her correspondence with Sigmund Freud for the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. In contrast, my first attempt to make a historical judgment concerning the contribu- ix Copyrighted Material
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