Self-Writing in Psychoanalysis

• Utgivningsdatum: 2027-03-01
• Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: The History of Psychoanalysis Series
• Antal sidor: 264
• Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• ISBN: 9781032859231

• Freudiansk psykologi
• Biografier
• Referensverk och tvärvetenskap

Agnes Sobolewska Alsberg is a historian of psychoanalysis, literary scholar, and translator. She authored several books, including Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe published by Routledge. She is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago and a psychoanalyst-in-training at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis program.

“Whether in the richly satisfying depths of her analyses, the astonishing breadth of her reading, the perfect pitch of her ‘multilingual ear,’ or the intellectual heights to which she soars, Agnes Sobolewska Alsberg is without peer in psychoanalytic scholarship. Grounded in the conviction that ‘self-writing is not a byproduct of psychoanalytic practice but its very essence,’ her masterful tracing of the ‘heteronyms of the psyche’ summons us to ‘a truly introspective way of living.’ This is a book that must be read to be believed.”Peter L. Rudnytsky, Head, Department of Academic and Professional Affairs, American Psychoanalytic Association, and author of Mutual Analysis: Ferenczi, Severn, and the Origins of Trauma Theory“A re-writing of the history of psychoanalysis through the lens of self-writing, Heteronyms of the Psyche makes an eloquent case for the autobiographical origins and development of psychoanalysis. The breadth of Sobolewska’s approach (including astute readings of such private materials as letters and diaries in addition to published works of biography, autobiography and memoir) allows her to trace hidden threads of connection among a diversity of writers, whose lives were each impacted by trauma. By situating each text, moreover, within a rich social and cultural milieu, with a specific emphasis on World War I and the rise of literary modernism, she also opens new lines of inquiry into the relationship between psychoanalysis as an evolving body of theory and the forces of historical change.” Madelon Sprengnether, Author of Mourning Freud, Bloomsbury, London 2018. “In this sparkling book, Alsberg does what no one has done before. She explores what she calls the self-writing of psychoanalysts, their inquiries into their own selves, as in their memoirs, diaries, and letters. She demonstrates how that writing reveals inner dimensions of the personal experience, conflicts, and creativity of analysts. While providing new insights about well-known figures such as Melanie Klein, Sandor Ferenczi, Margaret Mahler, and Sigmund Freud (and his biographer Ernest Jones), she also acquaints us with equally fascinating but lesser-known analysts such the early psychoanalytic renegade, Fritz Wittels, and the recent unorthodox psychoanalyst, Paul Williams.” James William Anderson, PhD, Professor, Northwestern University; former President, Chicago Psychoanalytic Society; author of Psychobiography: In Search of the Inner Life “This volume is a very important contribution: an authentic and scholarly work which illuminates the multifaceted practices and aspects of self-writing as a psychoanalytic endeavor as well as psychoanalysis as unparalleled self-writing enterprise, thereby finally closing a research gap.”Daniela Finzi, Research Director of the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna"Bravo to Agnieszka Sobolewska for Heteronyms of the Psyche, her fascinating history of “Psychoanalytic Life Writing” from Freud and Bonaparte through Bion and Dupont. In defining this genre of memoirs, diaries, and letters by practitioners and patients, she convincingly credits its important role in the ongoing exploration of the essence and meaning of psychoanalysis. Heteronyms is both an invaluable contribution to the field and an inspiration for more." Joan K. Peters, author of Untangling: A Memoir of Psychoanalysis

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