The Letters of Sigmund Freud & Otto Rank

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Pub. Date: 2011-12-20
Publisher(s): Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Summary

Sigmund Freud's relationship with Otto Rank was the most constant, close, and significant of his professional life. Freud considered Rank to be the most brilliant of his disciples. The two collaborated on psychoanalytic writing, practice, and politics; Rank was the managing director of Freud's publishing house; and after several years helping Freud update his masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams, Rank contributed two chapters. His was the only other name ever to be listed on the title page. This complete collection of the known correspondence between the two brings to life their twenty-year collaboration and their painful break. The 250 letters between Freud and Rank compiled by E. James Lieberman and Robert Kramer humanize and dramatize psychoanalytic thinking, practice, and organization from 1906 through 1925. The letters concern not just the work and trenchant contemporaneous observations of the two but also their friendships, supporters, rivals, families, travels, and other details about their personal and professional lives. Most interestingly, the letters trace Rank's growing independence, the father-son schism over Rank's "anti-Oedipal" heresy, their surprising reconciliation, and the moment when the two parted ways permanently. Presenting a candid picture of how the pioneers of modern psychotherapy behaved with their patients, colleagues, and families, the correspondence between Freud and Rank demonstrates how psychoanalysis grew in relation to early twentieth-century science, art, philosophy, and politics. A rich primary source on psychology, history, and culture, The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank is a cogent and powerful narrative of the history of early psychoanalysis and its two most important personalities.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. vii
Introductionp. 1
The Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, 1906-1910p. 4
Alfred Adler Departs, 1911p. 11
Judging Jung, 1912-1913p. 20
The Committee, 1913-1914p. 27
War, 1914p. 37
Limbo, 1915-1916p. 47
Krakow, 1916-1918p. 61
Active Therapy and Armistice, 1918p. 75
Eros Meets Thanatos, 1919 and 1920p. 91
Rising Tension, 1921p. 102
Favorite Son, January to July 1922p. 118
Fratricide, August to December 1922p. 132
Birth of the Mother, January to June 1923p. 151
Under the Knife, June to December 1923p. 161
Crisis, January to April 1924p. 181
New York, May to October 1924p. 200
About-face, October to December 1924p. 221
Reunion and Ending, 1925-1926p. 232
Willing, Feeling, Living, 1926-1939p. 255
Epiloguep. 275
Acknowledgmentsp. 291
Appendices
Minor Lettersp. 293
A Precocious Dream Analysisp. 315
Major Figures in the Freud-Rank Correspondencep. 324
Family Chart of Sigmund Freud in 1905p. 328
Otto Rank Family Treep. 329
Notesp. 331
Bibliographyp. 347
Indexp. 351
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