@misc{ConciBonomi, author = {Conci, Marco and Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Editorial: S{\´a}ndor Ferenczi and contemporary psychoanalysis: A selection of papers from the 13th International S{\´a}ndor Ferenczi Conference, Florence, May 2018}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 4, 2019), pp. 187-188.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 4, 2019), pp. 187-188.}, language = {en} } @misc{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Review Conci, M., Freud, Sullivan, Mitchell, Bion, and the multiple voices of international psychoanalysis}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 29 (No. 4, 2020), pp. 255-257.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 29 (No. 4, 2020), pp. 255-257.}, language = {en} } @misc{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Review Jonathan Sklar: Dark times. Psychoanalytic perspectives on politics, history and mourning}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 4, 2019), pp. 245-246.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 4, 2019), pp. 245-246.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Self Communion in the Intersubjective Field: Commentary on Case Study by Beatrice Beebe}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 12 (2002), pp. 153-158.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 12 (2002), pp. 153-158.}, abstract = {In Ferenczi's idea of identification with an aggressor we can distinguish two sides. One is what we might call an interactive tactic or a social strategy, which is used in upsetting or unbalanced relations of power in order to forestall lack of control, fear, and the like. This is the side that is explored in great detail by Jay Frankel. The other side consists in a intrapsychic change, which flows from severe trauma. The specific effects of the latter are described by Ferenczi as dissociation/fragmentation of the personality, sequestering of the trauma, emotional abandonment, and isolation. Elsewhere, Ferenczi refers to this as a form of psychic self-mutilation.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {The Freud-Ferenczi controversy in light of Emma Eckstein's circumcisio}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 25 (No. 4, 2016), pp. 202-210.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 25 (No. 4, 2016), pp. 202-210.}, abstract = {Emma Eckstein's circumcision trauma has been powerfully suppressed, denied, and dissociated from the history of the origins of psychoanalysis. Even though Freud did not categorize it as a trauma, he was deeply impacted by it in the period when he provided psychoanalysis with his foundation. Despite Freud's intellectual erasure of the trauma that Emma experienced, her >cut< never ceased to unconsciously break through Freud's fantasies and discourse, haunting the psychoanalytic building as a veritable ghost. S{\´a}ndor Ferenczi became the recipient of what Freud could not consider in his own mind, and his revision of the >Bausteine< (building blocks) of psychoanalysis featured an attempt to heal the split embedded in the foundation of psychoanalysis.}, language = {en} } @misc{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Review J. Dupont >Au fil du temps … Un itin{\´e}raire analytique<}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 26 (No. 2, 2017), pp. 129-131.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 26 (No. 2, 2017), pp. 129-131.}, language = {en} } @misc{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Review E. Falzeder >Psychoanalytic filiations: Mapping the psychoanalytic movement<}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 26 (No. 2, 2017), pp. 131-133.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 26 (No. 2, 2017), pp. 131-133.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Narcissism as mastered visibility: The evil eye and the attack of the disembodied gaze}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 2, 2010), pp. 110-119.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 2, 2010), pp. 110-119.}, abstract = {The gaze is originally experienced as a disembodied force. This experience is discussed here from a psychopathological prospective and from a developmental perspective. In certain states of regression, when the boundaries between the self and the others are fading away, the gaze is again experienced as a disembodied force that radiates from the eyes and can dangerously penetrate into the mind. The body and its extensions are usually used as a shelter. The body performs this sheltering function in a natural and silent way, and only when this function is lacking do we become aware of it. Shame then signals the failure of the ordinary sheltering function performed by the body. If the external body is not sufficiently cathected, its sheltering function is also decreased, to the point that the body is experienced as transparent, and the most intimate feelings and thoughts become dangerously available to others. In primitive societies, this situation is reflected in the universal belief in the >evil eye,< the most common defense against the evil eye having been a representation of an erect penis. In ancient Rome, the phallus-shaped amulet used to ward off the evil eye was called the >fascinum<: this magic phallus was supposed to neutralize the attack by fascinating the disembodied gaze, that is, by binding it (from the latin verb fascio, fasciare, to bind). The construction of mastered visibility is an organizer of the ego structure. The fascination of the mythical Narcissus for his own mirror image illustrates a central moment of the dialectical construction of the self: the effort to bind the disembodied gaze that is threatening the self, by giving a body to it and by fixing it to an image. Narcissism is thus the effort to bind an almighty free-floating gaze.}, language = {en} } @misc{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Review Desire, self, mind, and the psychotherapies. Unifying psychological science and psychoanalysis}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 4, 2010), pp. 246-249.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 4, 2010), pp. 246-249.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Freud, Ferenczi, and the >disbelief< on the Acropolis}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 21 (No. 3-4, 2012), pp. 239-248.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 21 (No. 3-4, 2012), pp. 239-248.}, abstract = {Ferenczi's 1929 claim that >no analysis can be regarded … as complete unless we have succeed in penetrating the traumatic material< resonated deeply in Freud, influencing his last works. According to the author, it reactivated in Freud the same traumatic memories that were at the heart of his self-analysis, letting them resurface in the 1936 essay >A disturbance of memory on the Acropolis,< in the striking simile of the Loch Ness monster. The image of >the sea-serpent we've never believed in< is then analyzed and used as a sounding lead for Freud's self-analysis. The transformation of the love-object into an attractive monster, which is found as a recurrent pattern in Freud's life and work, hints at the centrality of the combined figure of woman and serpent in mythology, in psychoanalysis, and in Freud's self-analysis. Finally, the background of the >memory disturbance< on the Acropolis is traced back to the woman patient who had dreams of gigantic snakes. It is suggested that the patient might be Emma Eckstein and that a still unexplored thread exists, which runs through the foundation of psychoanalysis, connecting the surgical operation of Emma, the Irma dream, and the Acropolis incident.}, language = {en} } @misc{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Review Andr{\´e} Haynal >Encounters with the Irrational. My Story<}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 27 (No. 3, 2018), pp. 188-189.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 27 (No. 3, 2018), pp. 188-189.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {>Sexuality and death< in Freud's discovery of sexual aetiology}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press), Vol. 3 (No. 2, June 1994), pp. 63-87.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press), Vol. 3 (No. 2, June 1994), pp. 63-87.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Freud und die Kastration. Paper presented at the Congress Psychoanalysis in 20th Century Cultural Life at Reichenau June 16-18, 1995. Typoscript 16 pp. [Translated from English by J{\"u}rgen B{\"a}uerle}, number = {unpublished version / unver{\"o}ffentlichte Fassung}, language = {de} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Freud and Castration. Paper presented at the Congress Psychoanalysis in 20th Century Cultural Life at Reichenau June 16-18, 1995. Typoscript 20 pp.}, number = {unpublished version / unver{\"o}ffentlichte Fassung}, language = {en} } @misc{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Editorial}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press), Vol. 5 (No. 3, September 1996), pp. 155f.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press), Vol. 5 (No. 3, September 1996), pp. 155f.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Mute correspondence}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press), Vol. 5 (No. 3, September 1996), pp. 165-189.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press), Vol. 5 (No. 3, September 1996), pp. 165-189.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Jones< Allegation of Ferenczi's Mental Deterioration: A Reassessment. Paper prepared to be presented at the International Congress Ferenczi and the Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Madrid, March 6-8, 1998. Typoscript 20 p.}, number = {unpublished version / unver{\"o}ffentlichte Fassung}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Freud and Castration: A New Look into the Origins of Psychoanalysis}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 7 (No. 4, December 1998), pp. 181-185.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 7 (No. 4, December 1998), pp. 181-185.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Jones's Allegation of Ferenczi's Mental Deterioration: a Reassessment}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 7 (No. 4, December 1998), pp. 201-206.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 7 (No. 4, December 1998), pp. 201-206.}, abstract = {In The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Volume III, Ernest Jones explained the third wave of dissension as an effect of the progressive mental deterioration of two members of the Committee, who had governed the psychoanalytic movement: Rank and Ferenczi. While in relation to Rank, Jones made a partial recant, in relation to Ferenczi, he did not modify his assertions. Erich Fromm collected various testimonies by witnesses of Ferenczi's last years, all contrasting Jones's assertions, and challenged Jones's manner of writing his-tory. However, since Fromm was himself a dissident, and his witnesses were pupils, relatives or friends of Ferenczi's, they were discarded as >partisans<. The present study aims at reconsidering the question on the basis of many docu-ments, among which the 1958 report of Lajos Levy (Ferenczi's physician) to Anna Freud. The consulted documents do not support Jones's allegation of Ferenczi's insanity. At the same time, they show that Jones's allegation was not a one-man fabrication, but reflected a shared belief. Finally, the author attempts a reading of the possible function of this belief within the psychoanalytic commu-nity. It is pointed out that Ferenczi's emphasis on the analyst as a real person was incompatible with the strict conception of psychoanalysis, based on the theoretical rejection of the affective factors which was becoming dominant around 1957, and it is argued that the narrative of Ferenczi's >falling into insanity< represented an expression of the fear of remaining embroiled in the patient's affective net.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Ferenczi and Contemporary Psychoanalysis}, series = {The Journal of the Academy of Psychoanalysis, New York and London (The Guildford Press), Vol. 26 (No. 1, Spring 1998), pp. 29-50.}, journal = {The Journal of the Academy of Psychoanalysis, New York and London (The Guildford Press), Vol. 26 (No. 1, Spring 1998), pp. 29-50.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {The broken symbol: The fear of the mind of the other in the symbolic history of the individual}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 15 (No. 3, September 2006), pp. 169-177.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 15 (No. 3, September 2006), pp. 169-177.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Ferenczis >geistiger Verfall<: Jones' Behauptung neu bewertet}, series = {Psyche, Vol. 53 (No. 5, May 1999), pp. 408-418. [Cf. also Bonomi, C., 1997]}, journal = {Psyche, Vol. 53 (No. 5, May 1999), pp. 408-418. [Cf. also Bonomi, C., 1997]}, language = {de} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {The Evolution of the Practice of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 10 (No. 3-4, October 2001), pp. 217-220.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 10 (No. 3-4, October 2001), pp. 217-220.}, abstract = {When Freud began his professional career, psychotherapy was already an established practice, standing upon the theory of ideogenesis, according to which certain motor symptoms were caused by ideas . This theory offered the rational ground for psychotherapy: if a symptom was provoked by an idea, it was possible to undo it by finding and erasing this very idea. Freud developed this theory into the model of unconscious ideas and into the technique of >interpreting the contents<. Whereas the later discoveries of resistance, transference, and character structure, should have promoted a break with the ideogenetic model, Freud never gave up the erroneous assumption that behind an action there was an idea, which had to be captured if one wanted to stop the action. This assumption was questioned again and again during the interminable controversy over the relative importance of remembering and experiencing: by Ferenczi and Rank in the Twenties, Alexander in the Fifties, and Gill in the Eighties, when they tried to shift the focus from remembering to experiencing, in order to make psychoanalysis an effective psychotherapy. Today, the view that what organizes our actions is stored in the form of >ideas< is no longer accepted by the scientific community. Instead, we speak of >operative models< and implicit or procedural memories.}, language = {en} } @misc{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Review Borgogno, Franco: Psicoanalisi come percorso}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 10 (No. 3-4, October 2001), pp. 279-280.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 10 (No. 3-4, October 2001), pp. 279-280.}, language = {en} } @misc{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Review Mitchell, Juliet: Mad Man and Medusa}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 11 (2002), pp. 223-228.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 11 (2002), pp. 223-228.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Between Symbol and Antisymbol - The Meaning of Trauma Reconsidered}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 12 (No. 4, December 2003), pp. 17-21.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 12 (No. 4, December 2003), pp. 17-21.}, language = {en} } @misc{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Review Reede, J{\"u}rgen: Reflecting Psychoanalysis. Narrative and Resolve in the Psychoanalytic Experience}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 12 (No. 4, December 2003), pp. 67f.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 12 (No. 4, December 2003), pp. 67f.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Trauma and the symbolic function of the mind}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 13 (No. 1-2, 2004), pp. 45-50.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 13 (No. 1-2, 2004), pp. 45-50.}, abstract = {The relationship between trauma and the symbolic function of the mind is discussed in three parts. First, a short outline is given of the long-lasting split within the field of trauma: it consists in a dichotomy between the symbolic and anti-symbolic reading of the traumatic experience - as I have called it in a previous paper. In the second part, it is maintained that the work of Ferenczi represents an attempt at overcoming this split. In the third and last part, the notion of symbolic adaptation is introduced. The process of adaptation has to ensure the survival of the individual along lines capable to foster the hope that the lost equilibrium between the individual and his environment will one day be restored. This function is performed by symbols: by linking together the lost satisfaction and the hoped-for wish-fulfillment, by creating bridges between past and future, symbols enable us to adjust to the new environment without renouncing hope. Symbols are mediators between the pleasure principle and the reality principle. When a person is struck by trauma it is precisely this unifying function which is broken. A typical consequence of this situation is described by Ferenczi as a rupture between feeling and intelligence.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Was Freud afraid of flying?: Risto Fried >Freud on the Acropolis - a detective story< Therapeia Foundation, 2003,}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 14 (No. 1, 2005), pp. 49-53.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 14 (No. 1, 2005), pp. 49-53.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Interview with Robert R. Holt by Carlo Bonomi}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 17 (No. 4, December 2008), pp. 249-253.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 17 (No. 4, December 2008), pp. 249-253.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Flight into Sanity. Jones' Allegation of Ferenczi's Mental Deterioration Reconsidered}, series = {The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 80, Part 2 (Juni 1999), pp. 507-542. [Cf. also Bonomi, C., 1998]}, journal = {The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 80, Part 2 (Juni 1999), pp. 507-542. [Cf. also Bonomi, C., 1998]}, language = {en} } @article{BonomiBorgogno, author = {Bonomi, Carlo and Borgogno, Franco}, title = {The Ferenczi renaissance: Past, present, and future}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 23 (No. 1, 2014), pp. 1-2.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 23 (No. 1, 2014), pp. 1-2.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Freud, Jung, Ferenczi e la visione di un pene tagliato. Typescript, 34 pp.}, language = {it} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Freud, Jung, Ferenczi and the vision of a cut-off penis. Paper presented at the Fourth International Conference of the Sandor Ferenczi Society. Budapest, July 28-31, 1993. Typescript, 30 pp.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {Why have we ignored Freud the >paediatrician100 Years of Psychoanalysis<, Geneva, 17-18 September 1993. Typescript, 59 pp.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {>It is by castration that females are 'made'<. Notes on castration in Freud's life and work. Typescript, 18 pp.}, language = {en} } @article{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {The Future of the Irma Dream. The overwhelming task of standing trauma. International Ferenczi Center, Budapest. 13 pp.}, language = {en} } @misc{Bonomi, author = {Bonomi, Carlo}, title = {The cut and the building of psychoanalysis. Review of Volume 1 Sigmund Freud and Emma Eckstein}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 24 (No. 4, 2015), pp. 255-257.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 24 (No. 4, 2015), pp. 255-257.}, language = {en} }