Three case histories
Material type: TextNew York Collier Books 1968Edition: 3d printingDescription: 319p.; ill.; bibliog. notes; bibliogContent type:- text
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1st Collier Books ed. 1963.. Introduction by editor Philip Rieff.
Introduction. Part 1 - Notes upon a case of obsessional neurosis (1909). 1 Extracts from the case history. 2 Theoretical. Part 2 - Psychoanalytic notes upon an autobiographical account of a case of paranoia (dementia paranoides) (1911). 1 Case history. 2 Attempts at interpretation. 3 On the mechanism of paranoia. 4 Postscript. Part 3 - From the history of an infantile neurosis (1918). 1 Introductory remarks. 2 General survey of the patient's environment and of the history of the case. 3 The seduction and its immediate consequences. 4 The dream and the primal scene. 5 A few discussions. 6 The obsessional neurosis. 7 Anal erotism and the castration complex. 8 Fresh material from the primal period--solution. 9 Recapitulations and problems
'Each of the three case histories reprinted in this volume will supply the reader with a different example of Freud's supreme give: for making a clear and yet irreducibly complex analysis of the most complicated thing in the world--a himan being....in a moral scientist the intellectual gift must be compounded by one more characteristic, which need not be present in the analyst of nonmoral actions: that capacity for introspection which, transformed into sympathetic understanding, relates the moral scientist to his object as one human to another. Without this relation it would be impossible to consider psychoanalysis as at once a theory and a therapy....'
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