Questions for Freud: The secret history of psychoanalysis.

Abstract

Part 1 Fundamental contradictions of Freudian thought: dream interpretation - free association or universal symbolism? the concept of psychical reality and its traps. Part 2 Psychoanalysis in the eye of literature: applied psychoanalysis in question a case study in literary psychoanalysis - Jensen's gradiva the distortions of psychoanalysis - Freud versus Jensen. Part 3 Transmissions of psychoanalysis: censorship and secrets in the historical topography of psychoanalysis the setbacks of catharsis - Emmy von N. neutralizing constructive criticism - Freud faced with Ferenczi's research on trauma. Part 4 Gaining insights into Freud: methodological issues the Freud family's disaster seen through the original documents Freud's self-analysis and the field of biographical studies Freud's self-analysis and the field of biographical studies Freud's dreams - witnesses to his family's disaster the secret of psychoanalysis.