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This paper addresses today's many criticisms of psychoanalysis by exploring their origins in its history. It proposes deepening and broadening our understanding of that history by examining the phenomenon of symbolic loss and mourning as it occurred, not only in Freud' s personal life, but especially in his leadership of the psychoanalytic movement, and in his struggle to recognize and to come to terms with his cultural heritage. It is claimed that these issues persist, in varying degrees and in different forms, in the institutes of today. They do so chiefly in the inability to mourn, first, the loss of Freud as an exemplar of introspective courage and, second, the loss of the symbolic dimensions of Freud's creative oeuvre.
Psychoanalysis and History – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jan 1, 1999
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