On Freud's Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety

Arbiser, Samuel

• Contemporary Freud -- Introduction -- "Inhibitions, symptoms and anxiety" (1926d) -- Discussion of "Inhibitions, symptoms and anxiety" -- The correlation between anxiety and danger: vicissitudes of mental functioning -- On the complex, relational nature of Freud's thinking on primary anxiety in Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety: differences from and ties to Klein -- Winnicott and Kohut: their theories of anxiety -- Primordial anxiety, drive, and the need for the progressive movement -- Clarifications and comments on Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety from a Lacanian perspective -- Psychoanalytic theory of anxiety: proposals for reconsideration -- Traumatic seduction and sexual inhibition -- Freud's writing in the twenties: theory construction and clinical research in Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety -- The death of an adult child: contemporary psychoanalytic models of mourning -- An unexpected clinical experience: rethinking affects