Introduction: Why Question Freud?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xii
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction: Why Question Freud? 1
7. III Fundamental Contradictions of Freudian Thought
8. 1. Dream Interpretation: Free Association or Universal Symbolism? 9
9. 2. The Concept of Psychical Reality and Its Traps 24
10. III Psychoanalysis in the Eye of Literature
11. 3. Applied Psychoanalysis in Question 47
12. 4. A Case Study in Literary Psychoanalysis: Jensen’s Gradiva 54
13. 5. The Distortions of Psychoanalysis: Freud versus Jensen 76
14. III Transmissions of Psychoanalysis
15. 6. Censorship and Secrets in the Historical Topography of Psychoanalysis 97
16. 7. The Setbacks of Catharsis: Emmy von N. 108
17. 8. Neutralizing Constructive Criticism: Freud Faced with Ferenczi’s Research on Trauma 115
18. IV Gaining Insight into Freud
19. 9. Methodological Issues 139
20. 10. The Freud Family’s Disaster Seen through the Original Documents 145
21. 11. Freud’s Self-Analysis and the Field of Biographical Studies 156
22. 12. Freud’s Dreams: Witnesses to His Family Disaster 166
23. 13. The Secret of Psychoanalysis 219
24. Conclusion 223
25. Notes 227
26. Index 235