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"Sigmund Freud and The Forsyth Case uses newly discovered primary sources to investigate one of Sigmund Freud’s most mysterious clinical experiences, the Forsyth case. The book details Pierri’s attempts to recover the lost original case notes, which are published here for the first time, to identify the patient involved and to set the case into the broader frame of Freud’s work. Maria Pierri begins with a preliminary illustration of the case, its historical context, and how it connects to Freud’s interests in ""thought-transmission,"" or telepathy. The author illustrates the possibility of a psychoanalytic interpretation of the transference and countertransference elements potentially conveyed by certain ""magical"" coincidences during the analysis, introducing the reader to a psychopathology of everyday life of the setting. The book also explores Freud’s further investigations into thought transmission, focusing on a meeting of the Secret Committee in October 1919 and his clinical work with his own daughter Anna. Sigmund Freud and The Forsyth Case features supplementary historical materials, adding valuable insight to the context and meaning of the case. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts in practice and in training, as well as academics and scholars of psychoanalytic studies, spirituality, and the history of psychology. It is complemented by Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Ferenczi and the Challenge of Thought Transference."

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Author:   Maria Pierri ,  Adam Elgar
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032159577

ISBN 10:   103215957
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   30 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Prologue: telepathy, superstitions and mushrooms 1. Coincidences of the psychoanalytic setting: a strange home visit M de Fortgibu and his plum-pudding The maternal in the circumstances of the setting: the psychoanalytic clock ""All things are chained, knotted, in love..."" Coincidences in analysis: sites of memory Notable examples: From Carl G. Jung; From Eugenio Gaddini; From José Bleger; From Joyce McDougall Telepathy, an enlightening mistake Freud and the ""Forsyth case"" 2. Forsyth arrives in Vienna to undertake a seven-week analysis with Prof Freud The decline of the West Introduction to psycho-analysis: the first 28 lectures Hunger in Vienna Parcels from England A passage to Austria A piece of forgetfulness by Freud 3. Herr P ends his analysis with Prof Freud in a rather extraordinary way New introductory lectures on psychoanalysis The ""Forsyth case"" Solve et coagula The Postscript of a Preface 4. The duellists Meeting in Zurich The duellists The first training analysis in Budapest Forsyth, the pediatrician ""once a friend of mine"" 5. Nachträglichkeit: following the traces of a long deferral Freud becomes a heretic: the debate about the ""transmission of thought"" within the committee A mistake by Freud The memorable Harzreise 1921, an essay in two halves: Vorbericht-preface; Nachtrag-postscript 1922, dreams and Telepathy Perplexities, second thoughts, and experiments with Ferenczi and Anna 1925, section C: ""The Occult Significance"" Still playing for time 1933, Lecture XXX, ""Dream and Occultism"" The gold coin 6. The disappeared-occulted manuscript The posthumous publication of the Vorbericht (1921) in ""Psychoanalysis and Telepathy"" (1941) and the disappearance of the Nachtrag Hide and seek Back to Freud's secret text: found in translation 7. Sigmund Freud: postscript (1921) 8. Manuscript details, slips, and errors Conditions and details Freud’s ""errors"" and the occulted ""dritte Fall"" Nachträglichkeit and reconstructions 9. During the Great War Historical and personal circumstances A coming-of-age prematurely interrupted Freud’s forced inactivity: the Metapsychology and the Introductory Lectures Impotence and death anxiety. Towards the uncanny defeat Ernest Jones’s war Ferenczi's kisses 10. Coincidences in Vienna: a week of fireworks in autumn 1919 The new orientation towards the West The heart towards the East 11. The strange case of Dr Forsyth and Mr Vorsicht: the build-up The ""secret language"" The Man of Property Setting the scene: the preconscious at work Correspondences The Fortsein game: The troublesome individual and a first repression; The missed appointment; The coincidence of the ""neighbours""; The joke of the ""home visit""; An ambivalent gift 12. The strange case of Dr Forsyth and Mr Vorsicht: the session Vorsicht, forsyth, forsyte The visiting card The Freud-Freund slip The nightmare and Jones's monograph on the ""Alptraum"" The faulty translations 13. That Forsyte Woman Return to the mothers – telepathy, ""distant proximity"" Don Giovanni: Zitto, mi pare sentire odor di femmina.... 14. Retrospective: the lost scene Caritas Romana: ""This is the place, this is the source"" A destiny and a choice made long ago ""Little Freud"": a child is being conceived Me too! 15. A hereditary transmission A daughter is being analysed Lou Andreas Salomé: a mother-sister Thought-transmission? A pair of twin papers: The father’s text; The daughter’s text ""Lifedeath"" ""Not to be there"": the process of separation and the game of Fortsein Anna, Antigone 16. 1932 ""Dreams and Occultism"" and ""Confusion of Tongues between Adults and the Child"" 17. ""Herr Vorsicht,"" alias Paul Bernfeld ""The eldest of a family of eight or nine children"" The firm of Paul Bernfeld and Heinrich Rosenberg, B & R: jokes and repetitions by the preconscious 18 A secret in the ""Preface"": the substitute of the third case 19. Dr David Forsyth leaves the scene and the story: circumstances of the birth of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis Seven weeks in Vienna The Forsyth affaire Forsyth leaves the scene 20. The Freud’s final orientation towards the West: from Vienna to London ""Fortsein"": Professor Freud has ""gone away"" Fort-Da. the return: story of a cap 21. The importance of being Ernest Jones. The cycle closes Transmission of the tradition and ""crypts"" Free Associations: Memories of a Psycho-Analyst Epilogue: a debt to pay Bibliography"

Reviews

"""The book by Maria Pierri, a passionate and recognized connoisseur of ""coincidences"", can be read as an engrossing detective novel of historical reconstruction as it unfolds towards its resolution, elegantly written and full of surprises, and opening up unexpected new fields of thought. Which is not to say that it actually is a novel: rather, it is real History with a capital H, thoroughly documented with a precise investigative method which revisits one of the most mysterious and controversial areas of Freudian research, that of telepathy."" - Stefano Bolognini, past President of the IPA and the Italian Psychoanalytic Society. ""With rigorous documentation, including previously unpublished material, and elegant writing, Maria Pierri conducts a passionate investigation of hypnosis, occultism, suggestion, ""coincidences and misunderstandings"", studied by Freud, who applied his scientific mentality to them. The secrets and enigmas around the origins of psychoanalysis, the deep ties and conflicts between the pioneers ""who made the venture"" with Freud will emerge from the courageous search for that ""elsewhere"" of human thoughts we call unconscious, with which we are confronted daily in clinical practice and theory."" - Paola Golinelli Training analyst, Italian Psychoanalytic Society. Author of Psychoanalytic Reflection on Writing, Cinema and the Arts. Routledge, 2021. ""Maria Pierri’s work is not only an excellent example of historical and archival research into the interest of emergent psychoanalysis in telepathic events, but a radical demonstration – thanks to the ""work as a double"" performed by thought-transmission – of how unsustainable it is to maintain that Freud was a monist. In this way, through the wealth of phenomena being observed, the author opens up a new direction for study and theoretical enquiry that will send us back to Freud, differently every time, and to his very early intuition of a psychic field that is created in the analytic relationship."" - Maurizio Balsamo, Training analyst, Italian Psychoanalytic Society. Maître de Conférences et Directeur de Recherche, UFR Études Psychanalytiques, Université Paris–Diderot"

The book by Maria Pierri, a passionate and recognized connoisseur of coincidences , can be read as an engrossing detective novel of historical reconstruction as it unfolds towards its resolution, elegantly written and full of surprises, and opening up unexpected new fields of thought. Which is not to say that it actually is a novel: rather, it is real History with a capital H, thoroughly documented with a precise investigative method which revisits one of the most mysterious and controversial areas of Freudian research, that of telepathy. - Stefano Bolognini, past President of the IPA and the Italian Psychoanalytic Society. With rigorous documentation, including previously unpublished material, and elegant writing, Maria Pierri conducts a passionate investigation of hypnosis, occultism, suggestion, coincidences and misunderstandings , studied by Freud, who applied his scientific mentality to them. The secrets and enigmas around the origins of psychoanalysis, the deep ties and conflicts between the pioneers who made the venture with Freud will emerge from the courageous search for that elsewhere of human thoughts we call unconscious, with which we are confronted daily in clinical practice and theory. - Paola Golinelli Training analyst, Italian Psychoanalytic Society. Author of Psychoanalytic Reflection on Writing, Cinema and the Arts. Routledge, 2021. Maria Pierri's work is not only an excellent example of historical and archival research into the interest of emergent psychoanalysis in telepathic events, but a radical demonstration - thanks to the work as a double performed by thought-transmission - of how unsustainable it is to maintain that Freud was a monist. In this way, through the wealth of phenomena being observed, the author opens up a new direction for study and theoretical enquiry that will send us back to Freud, differently every time, and to his very early intuition of a psychic field that is created in the analytic relationship. - Maurizio Balsamo, Training analyst, Italian Psychoanalytic Society. Maitre de Conferences et Directeur de Recherche, UFR Etudes Psychanalytiques, Universite Paris-Diderot

Author Information

Maria Pierri is a psychiatrist and child neuropsychiatrist, formerly researcher and adjunct professor at the Psychiatric Clinic, Medical School, University of Padua. She is a training analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and International Psychoanalytical Association and member of the Editorial Board of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi.

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