Reading Freud

A Chronological Exploration of Freud's Writings

Jean-Michel Quinodoz

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781317710509
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychoanalysis
• Index: Psychology

Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!

Reading Freud provides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud's work from Studies in Hysteria through to An Outline of Psycho-Analysis. It succeeds in expressing even the most complex of Freud's theories in clear and simple language whilst avoiding over-simplification.

Each chapter concentrates on an individual text and includes valuable background information, relevant biographical and historical details, descriptions of Post-Freudian developments and a chronology of Freud's concepts. By putting each text into the context of Freud's life and work as a whole, Jean-Michel Quinodoz manages to produce an overview which is chronological, correlative and interactive. Texts discussed include:

• The Interpretation of Dreams
• The 'Uncanny'
• Civilisation and its Discontents'

The clear presentation, with regular summaries of the ideas raised, encourages the reader to fully engage with the texts presented and gain a thorough understanding of each text in the context of its background and impact on the development of psychoanalysis.

Drawing on his extensive experience as a clinician and a teacher of psychoanalysis, Jean-Michel Quinodoz has produced a uniquely comprehensive presentation of Freud's work which will be of great value to anyone studying Freud and Psychoanalysis.

Subject Index

• abreaction 10, 16, 20
• abstinence 70, 118, 120
• acquired (traces) 163
• acting in, acting out 48
• active (technique) 117
• activity 187, 223
• active tendency/passive tendency 138, 160, 180
• adaptation (theory of) 210–211
• adolescence 95, 179
• affects 32, 35, 62, 67, 135, 140–144, 146, 148, 152, 155, 196, 221
• aggressiveness 81, 101, 134, 135, 138–139, 142, 148–150, 155, 161, 194, 197, 208–209, 221, 242seeambivalence,seehate,seeaggressive drives; turning aggressiveness back against the self 178, 220
• aim (of a drive) 136–137
• alarm signal (anxiety as) 217, 225
• alpha-elements 153
• alpha-function 154, 158
• altruistic surrender (defence) 210
• ambivalence, ambivalence between love and hate 69, 80, 81, 93, 116, 123, 127, 138–140, 150, 155, 164, 221, 240–241
• amnesia 60, 174
• anaclisis 30, 64, 103, 193
• anality 61, 64, 93; anal character, 98; anal eroticism 88–93, 161, 164
• analysis; interminable analysis 158, 254–260; of children 78–87; of the analyst 118–120, 259, 263; training analysis 55, 119–120; wild analysis 118
• anatomical distinction between the sexes 243, 246–248
• anxiety 24–25, 31, 142, 165–169, 217–226, 145; annihilation anxiety 137, 217; anxiety as signal 217, 225; anxiety at birth 219; anxiety concerning separation from and loss of the object 217–226; anxiety neurosis 33, 35; automatic anxiety 21, 226; castration anxiety 64, 81, 87, 161–162, 220, 226, 247; separation anxiety 217–226; separation anxiety in children 225; stranger anxiety 225
• animism 124, 127
• anthropologists 126, 271–272; psychoanalytic anthropology 127
• anti-Semitism 74, 255
• aphanisis 169, 181
• apoptosis 193
• applied psychoanalysis 73, 77
• archaeology 73, 260
• archaic heritage 272
• army 197, 200, 202
• artificial groups 197
• atheist 24, 270–271
• attachment 81, 225; homosexual attachment 68, 161–162, 177–179
• autism, autistic 56
• auto-eroticism 62, 64, 103–104, 128–129
• autonomous ego 210, 258
• awareness 43–44, 142–145, 155, 203, 205

• beating fantasies 85, 171–173, 176; in boys 175; in girls 174
• being in love 118, 199, 202
• beta-elements 153–154
• binding/unbinding (of the drives) 210
• birth 217
• bisexuality 21, 25, 59, 64, 82, 96, 177, 180; psychic bisexuality 24–25, 64, 66, 162, 171, 179, 203, 206–207
• borderline (patients, states) 49, 56, 132
• bungled actions (parapraxes) 45–49, 50, 261

• cancer (Freud’s) 204, 250
• cathartic method 9, 13–17, 20, 110
• cathexis, object cathexis 129–130, 145, 149–150, 197–198, 206
• clinical cases (Freud’s); Anna O. 13–14; Elizabeth von R. 15–16; Emmy von N. 14; Katerina 15; Leonardo da Vinci 94–97; Little Hans 78–87; Lucy R. 15; of female homosexuality 177–178; Rat Man 88–93; Senatspräsident Schreber 101–107; Wolf-Man 156–164
• clinical cases (other than Freud’s) 176
• castration (anxiety) 82, 103, 159, 161, 164, 166–167
• castration complex (woman) 180
• censorship 20, 41–42, 43–44, 54, 142,...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• The New Library of Psychoanalysis: Teaching Series
• Also in the New Library of Psychoanalysis
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Explanatory note
• Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) chronological table
• Reading Freud
• I The Discovery of Psychoanalysis (1895–1910)
• Studies on Hysteria ( 1895d)
• Letters to Wilhelm Fliess (1950a [1887–1902]) and (1985c [1887–1904])
• “Project for a Scientific Psychology” (1950c [1895])
• “The Neuro-Psychoses of Defence” (1894a); “On the Grounds for Detaching a Particular Syndrome from Neurasthenia Under the Description ‘Anxiety Neurosis'” (1895b[1894]); “Further Remarks on the Neuro-Psychoses of Defence” (1896b); “Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses” (1898a); “Screen Memories” (1899a)
• The Interpretation of Dreams (1900a); On Dreams (1901a)
• The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901b)
• Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious (1905c)
• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905d)
• “Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria” (Dora) (1905e [1901])
• Delusions and Dreams in Jensen's “Gradiva” (1907a)
• “Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy (‘Little Hans')” (1909b)
• “Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis (The ‘Rat Man')” (1909d)
• Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood (1910c)
• II The Years of Maturity (1911–1920)
• “Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides)” (1911c)
• Papers on Technique Written between 1904 and 1919; “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through” (1914g); “Observations on Transference-Love” (1915a [1914]); “Lines of Advance in Psycho-Analytic Therapy” (1919a) “Freud's Psycho-Analytic Procedure” (1904a); “On Psychotherapy” (1905a); “The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy” (1910d); “‘Wild’ Psycho-Analysis” (1910k); “The Handling of Dream-Interpretation in Psycho-Analysis” (1911e); “The Dynamics of Transference” (1912b); “Recommendations to Physicians Practising Psycho-Analysis” (1912e); “On Beginning the Treatment” (1913c)
• Totem and Taboo
• “On Narcissism: An Introduction” (1914c)
• Papers on Metapsychology Written between 1915 and 1917; Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1916–1917
• “From the History of an Infantile Neurosis” (The “Wolf-Man”) (1918b [1914])
• “The ‘Uncanny'” (1919h)
• “A Child is being Beaten (A Contribution to the Study of the Origin of Sexual Perversions)” (1919e); “The Psychogenesis of a Case of Female Homosexuality” (1920a)
• III Fresh Perspectives (1920–1939)
• Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920g)
• Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921c)
• The Ego and the Id (1923b)
• “The Economic Problem of Masochism” (1924c)
• Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926d)
• The Future of an Illusion (1927c); The Question of Lay Analysis (1926e)
• Civilization and its Discontents (1930a); New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1933a [1932])
• Papers on Denial of Reality and Splitting of the Ego Written between 1924 and 1938; An Outline of Psycho-Analysis (1940a [1938])
• “Analysis Terminable and Interminable” (1937c); “Constructions in Analysis” (1937d)
• Moses and Monotheism (1939a [1934–1938])
• Reading Freud Today?
• Appendix (names of those who participated in the Seminar between 1988 and 2003)
• Bibliography
• Name index
• Subject index