The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank

Inside Psychoanalysis
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4214-0354-0
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 650 g

Sigmund Freud’s relationship with Otto Rank was the most constant, close, and significant of his professional life. Freud considered Rank to be the most brilliant of his disciples. The two collaborated on psychoanalytic writing, practice, and politics; Rank was the managing director of Freud’s publishing house; and after several years helping Freud update his masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams, Rank contributed two chapters. His was the only other name ever to be listed on the title page. This complete collection of the known correspondence between the two brings to life their twenty-year collaboration and their painful break.

The 250 letters compiled by E. James Lieberman and Robert Kramer humanize and dramatize psychoanalytic thinking, practice, and organization from 1906 through 1925. The letters concern not just the work and trenchant contemporaneous observations of Freud and Rank but also their friendships, supporters, rivals, families, travels, and other personal and professional matters. Most interestingly, the letters trace Rank’s growing independence, the father-son schism over Rank’s “anti-Oedipal” heresy, his surprising reconciliation with Freud, and the moment when they parted ways permanently. A candid picture of how the pioneers of modern psychotherapy behaved with their patients, colleagues, and families—and each other—the correspondence between Freud and Rank demonstrates how psychoanalysis developed in relation to early twentieth-century science, art, philosophy, and politics.

A rich primary source on psychiatry, history, and culture, The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank is a cogent and powerful narrative of early psychoanalysis and its two most important personalities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lieberman, E James

Kramer, Robert

Weitere Mitwirkende

Richter, Gregory C

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
1. The Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, 1906–1910
2. Alfred Adler Departs, 1911
3. Judging Jung, 1912–1913
4. The Committee, 1913–1914
5. War, 1914
6. Limbo, 1915–1916
7. Krakow, 1916–1918
8. Active Therapy and Armistice, 1918
9. Eros Meets Thanatos, 1919 and 1920
10. Rising Tension, 1921
11. Favorite Son, January to July 1922
12. Fratricide, August to December 1922
13. Birth of the Mother, January to June 1923
14. Under the Knife, June to December 1923
15. Crisis, January to April 1924
16. New York, May to October 1924
17. About-face, October to December 1924
18. Reunion and Ending, 1925–1926
19. Willing, Feeling, Living, 1926–1939
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Appendix
a. Minor Letters
b. A Precocious Dream Analysis
c. Major Figures in the Freud-Rank Correspondence
d. Family Chart of Sigmund Freud in 1905
e. Otto Rank Family Tree
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lieberman, E James
E. James Lieberman, MD, is professor emeritus of clinical psychiatry and behavioral sciences at George Washington University.

Kramer, Robert
Robert Kramer, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized authority on action learning and consults on leadership development worldwide. He is the editor of A Psychology of Difference: The American Lectures of Otto Rank.

Richter, Gregory C
Gregory C. Richter, PhD, is a professor of German and linguistics at Truman State University.

E. James Lieberman, M.D., is a clinical professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the George Washington University School of Medicine. He has written, edited, and translated a number of books, including two by Otto Rank Psychology and the Soul and The Myth of the Birth of the Hero, both published by Johns Hopkins. Robert Kramer, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized authority on action learning and consults on leadership development worldwide. He is the editor of A Psychology of Difference: The American Lectures of Otto Rank.