@article{Lothane, author = {Lothane, Henry Zvi}, title = {Wilhelm Reich Revisited: The role of ideology in character analysis of the individual versus character analysis of the masses and the Holocaust}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 2, 2019), pp. 104-114.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 2, 2019), pp. 104-114.}, abstract = {One of the most controversial members of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society and Freud's intimate for many years, Reich is known not only for his seminal contributions to therapeutic and social psychoanalysis in his 1933 classic Character analysis, but also for his notoriety as a discoverer of an energy he named orgone. This paper is devoted to Reich the psychoanalytic sociologist and reformer, with special prominence given to his other, now somewhat forgotten, 1933 book >The mass psychology of Fascism<.}, language = {en} } @article{Lothane, author = {Lothane, Henry Zvi}, title = {Sabina Spielrein's Siegfried and other myths facts versus fictions}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 24 (No. 1, 2016), pp. 40-49.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 24 (No. 1, 2016), pp. 40-49.}, abstract = {Sabina Spielrein's life events became known to posterity through a private correspondence with Freud and Jung, and through her diaries. Based on a misinterpretation of the documents, a myth, a fiction, was created about an alleged sexual affair with Jung and a case of misconduct during treatment. Another myth was that her relationship with Jung was a cause of the historic break-up between Freud and Jung. The biographical facts described by the author in a number of publications show that her treatment ended when she left the hospital to become Jung's student in the medical school, a situation with its own ethical rules. Furthermore, the alleged >scandal< was no public matter: it turned out to be no more than a personal quarrel. Before, during, and after that turbulent episode, Spielrein and Jung maintained a long and tender friendship and correspondence that included sharing creative ideas that enriched psychoanalysis. In these exchanges, a special role was played by the myth of Siegfried and other themes in Wagner's operas.}, language = {en} } @misc{Lothane, author = {Lothane, Henry Zvi}, title = {Review S. Benvenuto >What are perversions? Sexuality, ethics, psychoanalysis<}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 25 (No. 3, 2016), pp. 198-200.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 25 (No. 3, 2016), pp. 198-200.}, language = {en} } @article{Lothane, author = {Lothane, Henry Zvi}, title = {My life with Paul Schreber}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 30 (No. 1, 2021), pp. 009-021.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 30 (No. 1, 2021), pp. 009-021.}, abstract = {Freud's 1911 and Niederland's 1959 problematic interpretations of Schreber's Memoirs set off a flood of secondary literature. In both selected facts were paired with a plethora of fictions. The narratives of Schreber father and son were misdescribed, misdiagnosed, and misinterpreted, errors have been uncritically copied by commentators ever since. Freud's theory of homosexuality as a cause of paranoia has not stood the test of time. In 1963 Niederland himself stated that the data he collected on Schreber father and son do not explain Schreber's second illness. A further misconception was to totalize both Schreber as person and the content of his book as psychotic, controverted by the fact that Schreber recovered by 1897 and the book is a creative essay with a profound moral message. Schreber's hermaphroditic fantasies were neither homosexual desires toward psychiatrist Flechsig nor morbid delusions but images of an identification with or compassion for his wife who suffered repeated miscarriages and stillbirths. The author revisits the description, diagnosis, dynamics, and deontology of Schreber's story from the perspective of dramatology and narratology and adds new information and insights. The goal of this essay is not only historical, but also a clinical and practical approach to fantasy and delusion.}, language = {en} } @article{Lothane, author = {Lothane, Henry Zvi}, title = {Emotional reality: A further contribution to dramatology}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 24 (No. 4, 2015), pp. 191-203.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 24 (No. 4, 2015), pp. 191-203.}, abstract = {This paper is a further contribution to dramatology, introduced in this journal in 2009. It focuses on the two basic modes of communication in any dramatic situation: (1) the nonverbal transfer of feelings and emotions, originating in the preverbal period of the love relationship between mother and child, and (2) the interchange of words and thoughts that develops with the acquisition of language. The early nonverbal mode of communication is the basis for proposing to rename Freud's concept of psychic reality >emotional reality.< On this view, emotional reality is seen as the primary fact of psychological life versus thoughts expressed in words as the derivative fact. Developmentally, emotions and ideas become united in complexes combining the emotional coloration of ideas and the ideational content of emotions. From the perspective of methodology, Freud, his followers, and his critics all conflated theories of disorder and theories of treatment. At the beginning of his journey, Freud was dyadic and interpersonal in formulating a unified theory of disorder and a method of treatment. In later years, he formulated monadic and intrapersonal theories of disorder while remaining interpersonal in his method of treatment, contributing to conflicts among the various psychoanalytic schools.}, language = {en} }