The inner world and Joan Riviere : collected papers, 1920-1958

Edited and with a biographical chapter by Athol Hughes.. Foreword by Hanna Segal.

Foreword - Hanna Segal. Joan Riviere: her life and work - Athol Hughes. 1 Early short papers. Three notes. The castration complex in a child. A castration symbol. Phallic symbolism. Magical regeneration by dancing. The theory of dreams. 2 - The beauty of translation. Review of James Strachey's translation of Sigmund Freud, Group psychology and the analysis of the ego. 3 - Four uncompromising book reviews. Review of David Forsyth, The technique of psycho-analysis. Review of R.H. Hingley, Psycho-Analysis. Review of C.W. Valentine, Dreams and the unconscious. Review of F. Alvah Parsons, The psychology of dress. 4 - Polemics. Symposium on child analysis. 5 Defensive femininity. Womanliness as a masquerade. 6 Possibly the first contribution concerning envy of the primal scene. Jealousy as a mechanism of defense. 7 Freud in the 1930s. Review of Sigmund Freud, New introductory lectures on psycho-analysis. 8 Those wrecked by success. A contribution to the analysis of the negative therapeutic reaction. 9 Freud's autobiography. Review of Sigund Freud, An autobiographical study. 10 Public lectures. Hate, greed and aggression. 11 A moving tribute to Freud. An intimate impression. 12 Bereavement. The bereaved wife. 13 Freud--the questioner. Book review of Sigmund Freud, The question of lay analysis. 14 Kleinian thinking in the 1950s. General introduction to Melanie Klein, Paula Heimann, Susan Isaacs, and Joan Riviere, Developments in psycho-analysis. 15 Early psychological development: London/Vienna. On the genesis of psychical conflict in earliest infancy. 16 The inner world as seen in literature. The unconscious phantasy of an inner world reflected in examples from literature. 17 An inner world. The inner world in Ibsen's Master-Builder. 18 A last word about Freud. A characer trait of Freud's

'...she became, for a brief period, Freud's analysand. Freud was quick to discern her potential usefulness to the psychoanalytic cause as a sensitive and creative translator, and in 1922 she was appointed translation Editor of the International Jurnal of Psycho-Analysis; a position she occupied until 1937....by the time Mrs. [Melanie] Klein settled in London in 1926, she was already established as an early supporter....Since her death in 1962, Joan Rivere's reputation has rested principally on her early achievement as a translator and on her later role as a persuasive and lucid disseminator of Freudian and Kleinian ideas....The respect gained for her [skill in translating and disseminating those ideas] has, however, tended to obscure the importance and originality of her own contributions to psychoanalytic literature....'

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