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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461492703321

Autore

Rudnytsky Peter L.

Titolo

Rescuing psychoanalysis from Freud and other essays in re-vision / / Peter L. Rudnytsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

0-429-90431-2

0-429-47954-9

1-283-19629-8

9786613196293

1-84940-918-8

Edizione

[1st]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

History of psychoanalysis series

Disciplina

150.195

150.1952

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: London: Karnac, 2011.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION An independent perspective on the history of psychoanalysis; CHAPTER ONE Inventing Freud; CHAPTER TWO "Infantile thoughts": reading Ferenczi's Clinical Diary as a commentary on Freud's relationship with Minna Bernays; CHAPTER THREE Rescuing psychoanalysis from Freud: the common project of Stekel, Jung, and Ferenczi; CHAPTER FOUR "I'm just being horrid": D. W. Winnicott and the strains of psychoanalysis; CHAPTER FIVE In praise of Nina Coltart

CHAPTER SIX Rethinking King Lear: from incestuous fantasy to primitive anxietiesCHAPTER SEVEN The bridge across Clifton Road: Emory University and the future of psychoanalytic studies; APPENDIX "Nitty-gritty issues": an interview with Eric R. Kandel; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

In his latest groundbreaking book, Peter L. Rudnytsky examines the history of psychoanalysis from a resolutely independent perspective. At once spellbinding case histories and meticulously crafted gems of scholarship, Rudnytsky's essays are ""re-visions"" in that each sheds fresh light on its subject but they are also avowedly ""revisionist"" in



their scepticism towards all forms of psychoanalytic orthodoxy. Beginning with a judicious reappraisal of Freud and ranging in scope from King Lear to contemporary neuroscience, Rudnytsky treats in depth the lives and work of Ferenczi, Jung, Stekel, Wi