Full Description
Alongside its companion volume, The Legacy and Promise of Hans Loewald, this book addresses the current lack of familiarity with the ideas and life of the eminent psychoanalytic teacher and scholar, Hans Loewald (1906-1993). It provides an account of the evolution of his ideas across different disciplinary fields.
Contributors to this volume take a broad look at Loewald's impact on the fields of sociology, anthropology, and feminism, language development, as well as delving into his work's significance for the sublimatory potential of religion, music, the arts. This volume shows how Loewald's thinking about internalization can adapt to our ever-changing social and cultural environment, even offering a Loewaldian lens to understand the contemporary use of psychedelics in mental health treatment. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that, after Loewald - as would have been his wish - for those who read him, psychoanalysis as an approach to mental health can never languish in stasis.
Animating this powerful, yet contained and complex man, there are contributions from his family, students, and analysands, and an introduction to the new virtual Loewald Center, making this volume essential reading for any psychoanalyst or psychotherapist working today.
Contents
Preface by Lawrence Friedman Introduction Part I: Developing Loewald 1. On the Therapeutic Action of Reading Loewald, Then to Now 2. Loewald's Sublimation or Oneness Regained 3. Creative Innovators: Loewald and Laplanche 4. Theory of Language as Clinical Theory 5. A Missing Link: Hans Loewald and Marion Milner 6. Musical and Sacred Resonances in Loewald's Writing: Recapitualtive Journeys, Celebrations of Oneness Regained 7. Hans W. Loewald: Thoughts About Religion 8. Of Timelessness, Ineffability, and Unity: Hans Loewald, Psychoanalysis, and Our Psychedelic World 9. Origins Part II: Personal Loewald 10. Brief Thoughts on My Father, Language and Attachment, and Life's Generational Vicissitudes 11. Analyst and Teacher 12. Hans W. Loewald: Quiet Revolutionary, Creative Synthesizer, Inspiration for 21st-Century Psychoanalysis: An Introduction to The Hans W. Loewald Center 13. Meanings of These Books and the New Loewald Center to the Family
