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2007 International Forum of Psychoanalysis
doi: 10.1080/08037060601143559
Abstract This paper presents a discussion of the previously unpublished correspondence between Stekel and Freud. The authors start with a brief overview of most important historic events and facts that constitute the context against which these letters should be read. The matters cover questions of publishing policy, personal priorities, and psychoanalytic principles. The authors suggest that the Stekel letters may have been preserved by Freud as evidence of the latter's estrangement from him, as tokens of betrayal. A minute discussion of the correspondence makes it possible to discuss day-to-day developments in this fateful relation, taking into account Stekel's side of the story for the first time as well, highlighting the backfiring of a strategic maneuver by Stekel to psychoanalyse the Freud family, which heralded his downfall, and also revealing the role that Victor Tausk played in this. The paper concludes with a discussion of the dialectics of estrangement.
2007 International Forum of Psychoanalysis
doi: 10.1080/08037060701374575
Abstract The author presents biographical facts of Sabina Spielrein's life after 1911, following her graduation as a medical doctor from the medical school of Zurich University, the completion of her doctoral dissertation, and the publication of her landmark paper on destruction as a forerunner of becoming. Spielrein joined the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society and continued to publish important papers. In 1923, at the insistence of her family and urged by Freud's dreams of her success, she returned to Russia, only to see those dreams dissipate due to both the politics of the Russian psychoanalytic movement and later the repression of psychoanalysis in Russia. Stalin's terror and purges killed her brothers, and finally the German invasion killed her and her daughters. In addition, the author documents the various Spielrein myths described in Part 1 of this document and their glaring self-contradictions in the still-growing secondary Spielrein literature, in the professional press, the popular press, and the entertainment media. The data presented are not only of interest as historical, but also contain important lessons for the practice of psychoanalysis as a profession.
2007 International Forum of Psychoanalysis
doi: 10.1080/07853890601073486
Abstract With the aid of passages of Ferenczi's paper on elasticity, and of the correspondence between Freud and Ferenczi, the author points out the conceptual difference between Freud and Ferenczi, evokes the historical roots of this difference, and highlights its continuing importance in present-day psychoanalysis.
2007 International Forum of Psychoanalysis
doi: 10.1080/08037060500545219
Abstract In this short note, the extraordinary similarity between the worlds of Freud and of the Ratman is underlined. Aspects relating to four areas are taken into account. First is their family background: the same Eastern European origin of a Jewish family, which was also of similar composition. Second, we see the same entanglement of death and sex in Freud and in Lanzer, and a strong ambivalence towards the father. Third, the mother was dominant in Freud's family of origin, as she was in that of Lanzer, in important matters. Finally, the worlds of Freud and Lanzer had much ground in common, and Freud understood the obsessional neurosis of Lanzer from within. A short conclusion is added, stipulating that the closeness of both men and the strong bond between them enabled Freud to understand Lanzer and to make him quit his stuck position.
2007 International Forum of Psychoanalysis
doi: 10.1080/08037060701300083
Abstract The act of writing the history of psychoanalysis poses crucial questions with regard to the openness of society. This article examines the fundamental issues faced by researchers when they set about writing the history of psychoanalysis in a specific country. The significance of reconstructing features of the psychoanalytical practice is discussed. The opposition that exists between the current academic ideals and those of the psychoanalytic societies is outlined with reference to the changes that society has undergone, particularly during the past 30 years. In this context, the stance maintained by psychoanalysts with regard to psychiatry, academic psychology, and the university education of psychotherapists is defined. Government accreditation processes for psychologists and psychotherapists are likewise illustrated in the light of the opinions held by psychoanalysts at different moments in time.
2007 International Forum of Psychoanalysis
doi: 10.1080/08037060701284253
Abstract A knowledge of the history of psychoanalysis strengthens our understanding of its concepts. A specific characteristic of psychoanalysis is that its creative development unfolds in confidential processes. One way to remedy this ‘basic fault’ is extensive and intensive interviews with analysts. In earlier times, collections of correspondence between analysts provided such information. There is very little material on the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) and its importance in the development of psychoanalysis. The first forums of the IFPS were published in Fortschritter der Psychoanalyse, whereas from 1992 onwards, significant papers have been published in the International Forum of Psychoanalysis. Although not bound to any specific school of psychoanalysis, the journal has been especially open to developments with roots in the so-called Budapest school.
2007 International Forum of Psychoanalysis
doi: 10.1080/08037060701299970
Abstract The archive and psychoanalysis are reconnected in a new framework. The archaeological metaphor of psychoanalysis, the traditional view of archives as storehouses of historical items, and the notion of memory as storage are revised according to the conceptions of fluid and dynamic archival and memory systems. A combination of psychoanalytic models and cognitive memory research is proposed to form developmental archival theory that will take into account the changing contexts of memory, meaning-making, negotiation of interpretation, and knowledge regulation. The three phases of registration (archivalization, archivization, and archiving) are seen in the dynamics of unconsciousness–consciousness, and in relation to the archivists’ and researchers’ transferences to their records as self-objects, transitional objects or evocative objects. Becoming conscious of archives is a continuous journeying through the multiple registrations and narrativizations of archives in the interaction between non-declarative and declarative memory. The archive and psychoanalysis touch upon processes that are suggested to concern metamemory and metareflection (the interplay between meta-emotion and metacognition). The futures of archives and psychoanalysis call for context-sensitive remembering and being attentive to the co-constructive translations of personal and social memory. Opening archives and psychoanalysis toward the unprecedented, without closing histories and memories, is the interminable task of encountering the “missing moment.”
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