Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Why Question Freud? I. Fundamental Contradictions of Freudian Thought Dream Interpretation: Free Association or Universal Symbolism? The Concept of Psychical Reality and Its Traps II. Psychoanalysis in the Eye of Literature Applied Psychoanalysis in Question A Case Study in Literary Psychoanalysis: Jensen's Gradiva The Distortions of Psychoanalysis: Freud versus Jensen III. Transmissions of Psychoanalysis Censorship and Secrets in the Historical Topography of Psychoanalysis The Setbacks of Catharsis: Emmy von N. Neutralizing Constructive Criticism: Freud Faced with Ferenczi's Research on Trauma IV. Gaining Insight into Freud Methodological Issues The Freud Family's Disaster seen through the Original Documents Freud's Self-Analysis and the Field of Biographical Studies Freud's Dreams: Witnesses to His Family Disaster The Secret of Psychoanalysis Conclusion Notes Index

About the Author

Nicholas Rand was Professor of French Literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison until his retirement in 2007. He edited and translated the American editions of Mária Török and Nicolas Abraham’s The Wolf Man’s Magic Word: A Cryptonymy and The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals of Psychoanalysis. Mária Török (1925–1998) was an internationally renowned French psychoanalyst.

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