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A de Mijolla

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PubMed1993

[Freud, the biography, his autobiography and his biographers].

Freud has a dual attitude to the biographical genre. When he places himself in the position of psychoanalyst-biographer of others, he is enthusiastic, speaking of ground to be conquered for psychoanalysis, and his works, as well as his correspondence, show that he continued to devote himself to investigations which resulted in interpretations of a number of personalities, the most detailed of which dealt with Leonardo de Vinci, Goethe, Dostoyevsky, President Wilson, and Moses. On the other hand, even though during the first years of the discovery of psychoanalysis he allowed himself, in a more or less veiled manner, confidences of an autobiographical nature, Freud remained very secretive about himself. He limited himself to making public only the routine information found on his university resume or the details of his life directly related to the discovery and the development of psychoanalysis. Hidden behind die Sache, the Cause, the man always vigorously defended himself against those who, braving the periodical destruction to which he subjected his archives, claimed to apply to him this "investigative drive" whose heuristic richness he otherwise celebrated. It is by means of fantasies of identification to the work, present in every biographical attempt, that we attempt to address here the contradictions of this dual attitude.

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PubMed1989

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PubMed1989

[Images of Freud: Freud's correspondence].

Because of the specific investment to be found in the estimated 20,000 letters or more that comprise Freud's correspondence, the study of this epistolary activity as such leads us to various insights: on Freud himself, describing himself day by day, on the history and the quality of the conscious or unconscious libidinal relations that linked him to his principal correspondents and, taking this exceptional case as our starting point, on the specificity of the need to write and receive letters that is to be found in varying degrees in every human being. Leaving to others the task of examining the contents of this correspondence in close detail as a source of biographical and theoretical information, this study is concerned with Freud's own comments on the manifold aspects of the letterwriter's craft. This approach entails a specific type of methodology: a reading of approximately four hundred excerpts from Freud's letters, restricted to the passages dealing with the material circumstances in which they were written, their graphic presentation, the strict accounts that were kept of the correspondence, the frequency of the letters, their conventional aspects or those revealing a degree of intimacy, etc. This vision that has been intentionally limited to a particular perspective allows us to take our bearings among the manifestations of a writing compulsion meant to stave off the advent of a "deadly boredom", already dreaded by young Freud at the age of 18.

History, 20th Century↗
PubMed1988

[Psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts in France between 1939 and 1945].

France was affected by a deep psychoanalytic silence, both in theoretical and clinical fields, throughout the four years of German occupation. The psychoanalytic Institute closed its doors and the Revue française de psychanalyse interrupted its publication as soon as the armistice of 1940. Some people, e.g. Rudolf Loewenstein or Princess Marie Bonaparte, emigrated, others fought, e.g. Sacha Nacht or Paul Schiff. Daniel Lagache went on with his researches within the works of the University of Strasburg, which had sought shelter in Clermont-Ferrand. René Laforgue cooperated with the German occupant; after the Liberation of France in 1944 he was discarded from a group in which, a few years before, he may have entertained the hope of playing an outstanding part. Quite a few of those he analyzed remained faithful to him--which will have an important bearing on the evolution of the psychoanalytic movement in France after 1945. In 1945, indeed, the new generation emerging from the last convulsions of the war, will gather around the most influential potential leaders: Sacha Nacht and Jacques Lacan. Only after the latency of those silent years, only after those years of violent struggles and cowardice, will the psychoanalytic elaborations appear, and also the institutional feuds to which they gave vent--in a conflictual climate amounting to the schism of 1953.

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PubMed1987

Unconscious identification fantasies and family prehistory.

Discovery of the fact that a subject identifies in an obvious way with another is at first only the awareness of a present process: involuntary mimesis, obedience to early 'identifying designations' or simple imitation deliberately carried out. Much psychic work remains to be done before we can think of such phenomena as 'screen-identifications'. The psychoanalytic interpretation of these dynamic formations will lead to the resolution of genuine 'identification complexes' through the reconstruction of scenarios which I have named 'unconscious identification fantasies'. These fantasies stage characters from the infantile prehistory and family saga of a subject who may be compelled to live out in his behaviour, symptoms, dreams, or even sometimes delusions, episodes pertaining to the past existence of the 'ego's visitors' linked to the most archaic processes that constitute the personality.

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