By Joseph Sandler, John Bowlby
Dimensions of Psychoanalysis features a number of the Freud Memorial Lectures brought by way of eminent British, French and American analysts at college university within the collage of London. jointly the papers shape a strong presentation of up to date psychoanalytic suggestion, either Freudian and post-Freudian, in its relation to the career itself and to the broader disciplines of sociology, the traditional sciences and literature.
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I say 'relatively young', because he was about forty years of age when he embarked properly on his psychoanalytic voyage. A n d after all, was he in fact filled with such overweening therapeutic arrogance at the beginning? Let me remind you of what he wrote in his first important analytic publication, the Studies on Hysteria (Breuer & Freud, 1893-95): Replying to an imaginary patient, he makes this response: 'No doubt fate would find it easier than I do to relieve you of your illness. But you will be able to convince yourself that much will be gained if we succeed in transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.
In executing this project, I have drawn on contemporary philosophi cal studies of action concepts, mind and existence. I shall be developing three interrelated theses concerning the nature of the clinical psychoanalytic enterprise: (1) that it con structs a personal past of a certain kind; (2) that it constructs a present subjective world of a certain kind; and (3) that both of these constructions require a relatively systematic transformation of the terms in which the analysand defines and understands his or her life history up to and including the present moment.
The infantile issues of defining oneself and others, of loving and hating oneself and others, of activity and passivity, pleasure and pain, danger, idealization, identification, reparation, reality testing—all of these are constituted in the terms of these categories of under standing. Important as it is to trace the history of these issues throughout the child's development, one must not lose sight of the principle that they are, so to say, authored by the bodily ego. 18 ROY SCHAFER Freud's suggestion that the infant's first act ofjudgement is decid ing whether to swallow or spit out implies the oral category of understanding, which, one might add, we keep on using to the last, and not only unconsciously.