Reading Freud's Patients by Anat Tzur Mahalel

Reading Freud's Patients by Anat Tzur Mahalel

This book is unique in its focus on multiple memoirs by patients of Freud and presents a fresh, even startling, close-up look at psychoanalysis as a clinical practice and as a rigorous discourse and offers a new vision of Freud's strengths and, at times, defects.

"Anat Tzur Mahalel’s reading of the corpus of texts illuminating the experience of analysis with Freud from the patient’s point of view is timely and originalPrevious work on these invaluable testimonies does not consider them as literary narratives that foreground the patient’s voice and perspective on the encounter with Freud as a practitioner of his own profession as a psychoanalyst, so her contribution goes beyond the existing body of scholarship in decisive ways." Peter L. Rudnytsky, University of Florida and Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, author of Formulated Experiences: Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm

"Mahalel shows compellingly how the twin acts of reading and writing mediate the analytic relationships that her book addresses. Freud’s analysands, she contends, encounter him first and foremost as a writer... Her readings deftly amplify a single image or trope in these memoirs and are at their finest when they identify new, hitherto unnoticed, intertextual echoes that place these memoirs in a broader literary tradition or a psychoanalytic debate." - Jivitesh Vashisht, Psychoanalysis: A Writing Cure? (Review Essay) in The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

"A previous study of some of these patients, Unorthodox Freud by Lohser and Newton (1996), uses their accounts to document Freud’s deviations from a dubious notion of orthodox analysis. By contrast, Tzur Mahalel wants us to read them, not as witnesses for the prosecution, but democratically, in their own right and from their respective viewpoints. Her readings are concerned with authority: she reminds us that in writing their accounts the patients are reclaiming ownership of their experience and thus redressing an age-old imbalance of power between therapist and patient." – Michael Molnar, Psychoanalysis and History

"No comprehensive look at the writings of the patients who left written memoirs of their time with Freud had been undertaken until this eminently readable volume by Mahalel. (...) I understand the likely reasoning of those who awarded a Book of the Year prize for this volume (...) when Mahalel comes to the poet who herself wrote so beautifully about her encounters with Freud (I highly recommend these, e.g., H.D., 1956), her own prose sings in the sweet melodies of young Mothers holding their little ones. It just sings. Jones indeed, commented on the H.D. memoir: ‘[H.D.’s book], with its appropriate title is surely the most delightful and precious appreciation of Freud’s personality that is ever likely to be written. … It is like a lovely flower, and the crude pen of a scientist hesitates to profane it by attempting to describe it’ (1957, p. 126). A similar valuation is apparent in Mahalel’s voice in discussing that memoir." - Howard Covitz, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis

"Anat Tzur Mahalel’s reading of the corpus of texts illuminating the experience of analysis with Freud from the patient’s point of view is timely and original. Previous work on these invaluable testimonies does not consider them as literary narratives that foreground the patient’s voice and perspective on the encounter with Freud as a practitioner of his own profession as a psychoanalyst, so her contribution goes beyond the existing body of scholarship in decisive ways." Peter L. Rudnytsky, University of Florida and Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, author of Formulated Experiences: Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm

"Mahalel shows compellingly how the twin acts of reading and writing mediate the analytic relationships that her book addresses. Freud’s analysands, she contends, encounter him first and foremost as a writer... Her readings deftly amplify a single image or trope in these memoirs and are at their finest when they identify new, hitherto unnoticed, intertextual echoes that place these memoirs in a broader literary tradition or a psychoanalytic debate." - Jivitesh Vashisht, Psychoanalysis: A Writing Cure? (Review Essay) in The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

"A previous study of some of these patients, Unorthodox Freud by Lohser and Newton (1996), uses their accounts to document Freud’s deviations from a dubious notion of orthodox analysis. By contrast, Tzur Mahalel wants us to read them, not as witnesses for the prosecution, but democratically, in their own right and from their respective viewpoints. Her readings are concerned with authority: she reminds us that in writing their accounts the patients are reclaiming ownership of their experience and thus redressing an age-old imbalance of power between therapist and patient." – Michael Molnar, Psychoanalysis and History

"No comprehensive look at the writings of the patients who left written memoirs of their time with Freud had been undertaken until this eminently readable volume by Mahalel. (...) I understand the likely reasoning of those who awarded a Book of the Year prize for this volume (...) when Mahalel comes to the poet who herself wrote so beautifully about her encounters with Freud (I highly recommend these, e.g., H.D., 1956), her own prose sings in the sweet melodies of young Mothers holding their little ones. It just sings. Jones indeed, commented on the H.D. memoir: ‘[H.D.’s book], with its appropriate title is surely the most delightful and precious appreciation of Freud’s personality that is ever likely to be written. … It is like a lovely flower, and the crude pen of a scientist hesitates to profane it by attempting to describe it’ (1957, p. 126). A similar valuation is apparent in Mahalel’s voice in discussing that memoir." - Howard Covitz, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis

Anat Tzur Mahalel (Ph.D.) is a practicing psychoanalytically-oriented clinical psychologist, Research Fellow, Bucerius Institute for Research of German Contemporary History and Society, post-doctoral researcher in the interdisciplinary program in psychoanalysis and staff member at the advanced school for psychoanalytic psychotherapy, University of Haifa. She is in private practice in Haifa, Israel, and has published papers on the history of psychanalysis, psychoanalysis and literature, translation theory, and autobiography.

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ISBN 13	9780367027155
ISBN 10	0367027151
Titel	Reading Freud's Patients
Autor	Anat Tzur Mahalel
Serie	The History Of Psychoanalysis Series
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2020-06-10
Seitenanzahl	208
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