Ferenczi Dialogues

Raluca Soreanu is a psychoanalyst, member of Circulo Psicanalitico do Rio de Janeiro, and professor in Psychoanalytic Studies at the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. Jakob Staberg is a practicing psychoanalyst and member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature and lecturer in aesthetics at Soedertoern University. Jenny Willner is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen.

The interdisciplinarity and the format of dialogue among this threesome has produced a powerful work – in regard to psychoanalytic theory, its history and to the history and importance of Sándor Ferenczi.Adrienne Harris, New York University (NYU)

• Foreword by Adrienne Harris Reading Ferenczi A Pirouette Backwards in Seven-League BootsAn Introduction by Jenny Willner, Jakob Staberg and Raluca SoreanuCuts Through the Contemporary Scene Ferenczi Dialogues – an Outline The Seven Threads of the ‘Ferenczi Revival’ PART 1Instead of Language: ConfusionSigmund Freud / Sándor FerencziJakob Staberg Ferenczi in the Psychoanalytic Milieu Transference Trauma The Domain of Dreams A Painful Encounter ‘Too much of the father’: A Schreberian Pre-History Response to Jakob Staberg, by Jenny WillnerThe Tactile Eye and Queer SpectralityResponse to Jakob Staberg, by Raluca SoreanuPART 2Catastrophes and GenitalityFerenczi’s Thalassa and the Politics of Bioanalysis Jenny Willner Freud’s Theory of Sexuality Meets Popular Darwinism in a Soldiers’ Library The Fish-Orgy: Wilhelm Bölsche’s Herrings and Ferenczi’s Thalassa Weltanschauung: Fetishistic Disavowal in Popular Darwinism Neurotic Evolution: Bioanalysis vs. Biologism Heroic Organs, Hysteric Organs: The Method of Bioanalysis The Politics of Bioanalysis Reading Against the Grain: On How Organs Crave Interpretation Response to Jenny Willner, by Jakob StabergWhat Does an Organ Do? Response to Jenny Willner, by Raluca SoreanuPART 3Catastrophe and the Creativity of FragmentsToward a Phenomenology of the Scene of TraumaRaluca Soreanu A Frame: On Ferenczi’s Model of Memory Repetition Scene Regression The Dream of Fragments in The Clinical Diary On the Identification with the Aggressor Moment 1: Paralysis Moment 2: Dematerialisation Moment 3: Traumatic Imitation Moment 4: Guilt Moment 5: Getting Beside Oneself Moment 6: Traumatic Progression Moment 7: Autotomy Moment 8: Neo-FormationsMoment 9: Orpha Moment 10: Reconstruction There is Hope for Life in Fragments: Thinking with Ferenczi’s Images Response to Raluca Soreanu, by Jenny WillnerToward an Eventful Psychoanalysis Response to Raluca Soreanu, by Jakob StabergBibliography About the Authors Index ERRATUM: The name of Peter Rudnytsky is misspelled on page 16 (fn. 33) and on page 224 as “Peter Rudnitsky” instead of “Peter Rudnytsky.”