Full Description
The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis examines the radical and non-conformist perspectives of both classical and contemporary psychoanalysis.
The chapters included in this book span the course of David James Fisher's career. They contextualize significant cases from the recent history of psychoanalysis, critically analyze key aspects of psychoanalytic work, consider the role of psychoanalysis in the history of the twentieth century, and provide biographical sketches of major figures in the field. The book concludes with a cogent interview of the author by a distinguished psychohistorian, depicting how subjectivity, family themes, politics, and cultural affinities marked his choice of subject matter and methodology, his identifications, and his antipathies.
The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis will appeal to mental health professionals and students with an interest in psychoanalytic practice and theory and academics and researchers who are fascinated by the subversive, non-conforming aspects of both classical and contemporary psychoanalysis.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I
EROTICS, TRANSITIONAL OBJECTS, AND DREAMWORK
Chapter 1
Stoller, Erotics, Sexual Excitement
Chapter 2
Transitional Objects and Generativity: Ekstein's Blending of Erikson and Winnicott
Chapter 3
Concerning the Life Cycle of the Transitional Object (by Rudolf Ekstein)
Chapter 4
A Conversation with Adam Phillips
Chapter 5
Comments on James S. Grotstein's Dreambook
PART II
THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
Chapter 6
Sartre's Freud: Dimensions of Intersubjectivity in The Freud Scenario
Chapter 7
Reflections on the Psychoanalytic Free Clinics
Chapter 8
A Power Structure Analysis of Psychoanalytic Institutes (Followed by an Interview with Douglas Kirsner)
Chapter 9
On the History of Lacanian Psychoanalysis in France
Chapter 10
What Was Revolutionary about the Psychoanalytic Revolution in Mind?
Chapter 11
Discovering Wounded Healers in A Dangerous Method
Chapter 12
Peter Loewenberg's Contribution to Psychohistory and Psychoanalysis
PART III
TOWARD A PSYCHOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF RESISTANCE AND COLLABORATION DURING VICHY FRANCE
Chapter 13
Reflections on the Collaboration and the Jewish Question
Chapter 14
To Resist and to Protect: A Critical Analysis of Weapons of the Spirit
PART IV
FUNERAL ORATIONS
Chapter 15
Father's Day
Chapter 16
Remembering Robert J. Stoller, M.D. (1924-1991)
Chapter 17
Eulogy for Joseph Natterson, M.D. (1923-2023)
PART V
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT
Chapter 18
Trump as Symptom
Chapter 19
Against the Separation of Children from Parents at the U.S. Border (with Van DeGolia)
Chapter 20
A Manifesto for Psychoanalytic Education with Sixteen Suggestions
Chapter 21
A Psychoanalyst Serves On a Jury
PART VI
EPILOGUE
Chapter 22
The Intellectual Itinerary of a Psychoanalyst: David James Fisher Interviewed by Paul Elovitz
