@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 = {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} }