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The Cut and the Building of Psychoanalysis, Volume 1 This volume presents a fresh perspective and new narrative of the origins of psychoanalysis, taking into account social, cultural, and contemporary relational views. Exploring Freud’s unconscious communication and iden- tification with his patients, Emma Eckstein in particular, the book sheds new light on the logic which informed a number of events central to Freud’s self-analysis, and the theories he formulated to found and estab- lish psychoanalysis. Divided into three parts, chapters trace how Freud’s oscillations between the reality of trauma and the creative power of fantasies were a direct result of his encounter with and treatment of Emma. Part 1 presents a histori- cal reconstruction of the practice of castration in the treatment of hysteric women between 1878 and 1895; Part 2 examines the theories and practice produced by Freud between 1895 and 1896; and Part 3 explores and recon- structs Freud’s self-analysis, 1896–1899. The Cut and the Building of Psychoanalysis argues that Freud’s unconscious communication with Emma provided him with a crucial framework and path for his self-analysis. It will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and psychologists, as well as historians of medicine and science, social sci- entists and scholars interested in the history of Western thought and the mind in general. Carlo Bonomi, PhD, is supervising analyst at the Harry Stack Sullivan Institute of Psychoanalysis, Florence, Italy, and a faculty member of the Postgraduate School of Psychotherapy of the same institute. He has taught History of Psy- chology and Dynamic Psychology at the State University of Florence and is a former president of the Centre for Historical Studies of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry. He is also Founding President of the Sándor Ferenczi Cultural Association. Relational Perspectives Book Series Lewis Aron & Adrienne Harris Series Co-Editors Steven Kuchuck & Eyal Rozmarin Associate Editors TOP The Relational Perspectives Book Series (RPBS) publishes books that grow out of or contribute to the relational tradition in contemporary psychoanalysis. The term relational psychoanalysis was first used by Greenberg and Mitchell (1983) to bridge the traditions of interpersonal relations, as developed within interpersonal psychoanalysis and object relations, as developed within contem- porary British theory. But, under the seminal work of the late Stephen Mitchell, the term relational psychoanalysis grew and began to accrue to itself many other influences and developments. Various tributaries – interpersonal psychoanal- ysis, object relations theory, self psychology, empirical infancy research, and elements of contemporary Freudian and Kleinian thought – flow into this tra- dition, which understands relational configurations between self and others, both real and fantasied, as the primary subject of psychoanalytic investigation. We refer to the relational tradition, rather than to a relational school, to highlight that we are identifying a trend, a tendency within contemporary psychoanalysis, not a more formally organized or coherent school or system of beliefs. Our use of the term relational signifies a dimension of theory and practice that has become salient across the wide spectrum of contempo- rary psychoanalysis. Now under the editorial supervision of Lewis Aron and Adrienne Harris with the assistance of Associate Editors Steven Kuchuck and Eyal Rozmarin, the Relational Perspectives Book Series originated in 1990 under the editorial eye of the late Stephen A. Mitchell. Mitchell was the most prolific and influential of the originators of the relational tradition. He was committed to dialogue among psychoanalysts and he abhorred the authoritarianism that dictated adherence to a rigid set of beliefs or technical restrictions. He championed open discussion, comparative and integrative approaches, and he promoted new voices across the generations. Included in the Relational Perspectives Book Series are authors and works that come from within the relational tradition, extend and develop the tradition, as well as works that critique relational approaches or compare and contrast it with alternative points of view. The series includes our most distinguished senior psychoanalysts, along with younger contributors who bring fresh vision. Vol. 1 Vol. 9 Conversing with Uncertainty: Influence and Autonomy in Practicing Psychotherapy Psychoanalysis in a Hospital Setting Stephen A. Mitchell Rita Wiley McCleary Vol. 10 Vol. 2 Fairbairn, Then and Now Affect in Psychoanalysis: A Clinical Neil J. Skolnick & David E. Scharff Synthesis (eds.) Charles Spezzano Vol. 11 Vol. 3 Building Bridges: Negotiation of The Analyst in the Inner City: Paradox in Psychoanalysis Race, Class, and Culture Stuart A. Pizer through a Psychoanalytic Lens Neil Altman Vol. 12 Relational Perspectives on the Body Vol. 4 Lewis Aron & Frances Sommer A Meeting of Minds: Anderson (eds.) Mutuality in Psychoanalysis Lewis Aron Vol. 13 Seduction, Surrender, and Vol. 5 Transformation: Emotional Holding and Psychoanalysis: Engagement in the Analytic Process A Relational Perspective Karen Maroda Joyce A. Slochower Vol. 14 Vol. 6 Relational Psychoanalysis, Vol. I: The Therapist as a Person: The Emergence of a Tradition Life Crises, Life Choices, Life Stephen A. Mitchell & Lewis Aron Experiences, and Their Effects on (eds.) Treatment Barbara Gerson (ed.) Vol. 15 The Collapse of the Self and Its Vol. 7 Therapeutic Restoration Soul on the Couch: Rochelle G. K. Kainer Spirituality, Religion, and Morality in Contemporary Psychoanalysis Vol. 16 Charles Spezzano & Gerald J. Psychoanalytic Participation: Gargiulo (eds.) Action, Interaction, and Integration Kenneth A. Frank Vol. 8 Unformulated Experience: Vol. 17 From Dissociation to Imagination in The Reproduction of Evil: Psychoanalysis A Clinical and Cultural Perspective Donnel B. Stern Sue Grand Vol. 18 Vol. 27 Objects of Hope: The Designed Self: Psychoanalysis and Exploring Possibility and Limit in Contemporary Identities Psychoanalysis Carlo Strenger Steven H. Cooper Vol. 28 Vol. 19 Relational Psychoanalysis, Vol. II: Who is the Dreamer, Who Dreams the Innovation and Expansion Dream? Lewis Aron & Adrienne Harris (eds.) A Study of Psychic Presences James S. Grotstein Vol. 29 Child Therapy in the Great Outdoors: Vol. 20 A Relational View Relationality: Sebastiano Santostefano From Attachment to Intersubjectivity Stephen A. Mitchell Vol. 30 The Healer’s Bent: Solitude and Vol. 21 Dialogue in the Clinical Encounter Looking for Ground: James T. McLaughlin Countertransference and the Problem of Value in Psychoanalysis Vol. 31 Peter G. M. Carnochan Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World Vol. 22 Danielle Knafo & Kenneth Feiner Sexuality, Intimacy, Power Muriel Dimen Vol. 32 Getting from Here to There: Vol. 23 Analytic Love, Analytic Process September 11: Trauma and Human Sheldon Bach Bonds Susan W. Coates, Jane L. Rosenthal, Vol. 33 & Daniel S. Schechter (eds.) Creating Bodies: Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive Survival Vol. 24 Katie Gentile Minding Spirituality Randall Lehman Sorenson Vol. 34 Relational Psychoanalysis, Vol. III: New Vol. 25 Voices Gender as Soft Assembly Melanie Suchet, Adrienne Harris, & Adrienne Harris Lewis Aron (eds.) Vol. 26 Vol. 35 Impossible Training: Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis: A Relational View of Psychoanalytic A Relational Perspective for the Education Discipline’s Second Century Emanuel Berman Brent Willock Vol. 36 Vol. 45 Bodies in Treatment: First Do No Harm: The Paradoxical The Unspoken Dimension Encounters of Psychoanalysis, Frances Sommer Anderson (ed.) Warmaking, and Resistance Adrienne Harris & Steven Botticelli Vol. 37 (eds.) Adolescent Identities: A Collection of Readings Vol. 46 Deborah Browning (ed.) A Disturbance in the Field: Essays in Transference- Vol. 38 Countertransference Engagement Repair of the Soul: Metaphors of Steven H. Cooper Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis Vol. 47 Karen E. Starr Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas Vol. 39 Nancy Caro Hollander Dare to be Human: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Journey Vol. 48 Michael Shoshani Rosenbaum Toward Mutual Recognition: Relational Psychoanalysis and the Vol. 40 Christian Narrative The Analyst in the Inner City, Second Marie T. Hoffman Edition: Race, Class, and Culture through a Psychoanalytic Lens Vol. 49 Neil Altman Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder: Vol. 41 A Relational Approach The Hero in the Mirror: From Fear to Fortitude Elizabeth F. Howell Sue Grand Vol. 50 Vol. 42 With Culture in Mind: Sabert Basescu: Selected Papers on Psychoanalytic Stories Human Nature and Psychoanalysis Muriel Dimen (ed.) George Goldstein & Helen Golden (eds.) Vol. 51 Relational Psychoanalysis, Vol. IV: Vol. 43 Expansion of Theory Invasive Objects: Minds under Siege Lewis Aron & Adrienne Harris Paul Williams (eds.) Vol. 44 Vol. 52 Good Enough Endings: Breaks, Relational Psychoanalysis, Vol. V: Interruptions, and Terminations from Evolution of Process Contemporary Relational Perspectives Lewis Aron & Adrienne Harris Jill Salberg (ed.) (eds.) Vol. 53 Vol. 60 Individualizing Gender and Sexuality: The Origins of Attachment: Infant Theory and Practice Research and Adult Treatment Nancy Chodorow Beatrice Beebe & Frank M. Lachmann Vol. 54 The Silent Past and the Invisible Present: Vol. 61 Memory, Trauma, and Representation The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and in Psychotherapy Reich to Relationality Paul Renn Jon Sletvold Vol. 55 Vol. 62 A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward A Relational Psychoanalytic Approach a Progressive Psychoanalysis to Couples Psychotherapy Lewis Aron & Karen Starr Philip A. Ringstrom Vol. 56 Vol. 63 Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Relational Perspective Contextual Self: The Inner World, Joyce Slochower the Intimate World, and the World of Culture and Society Vol. 57 Paul L. Wachtel The Play Within the Play: The Enacted Dimension of Psychoanalytic Process Vol. 64 Gil Katz Traumatic Ruptures: Abandonment and Betrayal in the Analytic Vol. 58 Relationship Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Robin A. Deutsch (ed.) Systems of Subjugation Daniel Shaw Vol. 65 The Cut and the Building of Vol. 59 Psychoanalysis, Volume 1: Sigmund Clinical Implications of the Freud and Emma Eckstein Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience: When Carlo Bonomi the Personal Becomes Professional Steven Kuchuck (ed.) The Cut and the Building of Psychoanalysis, Volume 1 Sigmund Freud and Emma Eckstein Carlo Bonomi First published 2015 by Routledge 27 Church Road, Hove, East Sussex BN3 2FA and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2015 C. Bonomi The right of C. Bonomi to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Bonomi, Carlo. The cut and the building of psychoanalysis/Carlo Bonomi. volumes cm Contents: Volume 1. Sigmund Freud and Emma Eckstein— Volume 2. Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Psychoanalysis—History. 2. Psychoanalysts. 3. Freud, Sigmund, 1856–1939. 4. Eckstein, Emma. I. Title. BF173.B647 2015 150.19′509—dc23 2014035777 ISBN: 978-1-138-82349-5 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-74204-5 (ebk) Typeset in Baskerville by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon, UK Contents List of Figures xi Introduction 1 PART 1 The medical context 15 1 The castration of women and girls 17 2 Between body and psyche: the nerves 45 PART 2 Withstanding trauma 61 3 A gynecological scandal 63 4 The significance of Emma Eckstein’s circumcision to Freud’s Irma dream 86 PART 3 Topography of a split 123 5 The savior of children 125 6 The cornerstone 150 7 A bisexual monster 175 8 The crossroad 189
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