TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - The Schism betweeen Freud and Jung over Schreber: Its Implications for Methods and Doctrine JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 6 (No. 2, July 1997), pp. 103-116. N2 - Freud's interest in Schreber's famous Memoirswas not to examine Schreber, a life, in all its historicity, but to use the book as case material to illustrate a specific theory he had formulated in 1908: the causal connection between repressed homosexual libido and the paranoid syndrome. While of undoubted heuristic value, this causal connection has not stood the test of time as a universal clinical formulation. In singling out this combined drive and developmental explanatory theory, Freud left untapped many descriptive, diagnostic and dynamic aspects in the story of Schreber. – This formulation also illustrates the perennial tension in psychoanalysis between the breadth of method and the narrowness of theory, or doctrine. Whereas method addresses such general issues as the creation of meaning in health and disease, of meaning as mediated by language, memory, perception and imagination, trauma and transference, theory is concerned with the role of specific etiological forces and factors. The theory in question, the sexual etiology of neuroses and psychoses, has been variously contested during Freud's lifetime and thereafter. – The debates about the privileged role of sexuality were important in the history of psychoanalysis, the psychoanalytic movement, the various Freudian and now-Freudian schools, and the Freud-Jung relationship. The differences between Freud and Jung concerning the libido theory and Schreber led to their fateful clash and final parting of the ways. Y1 - 1997 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - The Perennial Freud: Method versus Myth and the Mischief of Freud Bashers JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 8 (No. 3, December 1999), pp. 151-171. N2 - Nowadays Freud bashing is not only à la mode, in certain circles it has become de rigueur. Once a name of respect, Freud has become a name of ridicule. But like any scientific method, body of knowledge, and therapeutic procedure, psychoanalysis should be subjected to critical scrutiny. The recent crop of hostile Freud critics may have filled a vacuum left for decades by a psychoanalytic establishment which, like the Church of yesteryear, shunned all forms of criticism intramural and extramural. A central guiding idea of this essay is the distinction between the psychoanalytic method and psychoanalytic doctrines, hypotheses, and theories. This distinction has been invariably confused by both Freud's adherents and Freud's attackers. Moreover, arguments ad rem have been conflated with arguments ad hominem. A socially responsible criticism must seek to be constructive and not merely destructive. It is the latter course that was taken by the various hostile critics that came to be labeled as Freud bashers. The time has come to take a stand against the more egregious attacks on Freud and the psychoanalytic method. Y1 - 1999 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - Adolf Grünbaum's Critique of Psychoanalysis: Requiem or Reveille? JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 10 (No. 2, June 2001), pp. 113-132. N2 - Already in the first decade of the 19th century and of its existence psychoanalysis has been under attack. Freud the psychoanalyst, the moralist, and the healer, and his new message to mankind, were under fire both ad rem and ad hominem: people attacked both the message and the messenger. In the recent decades, one of the most powerful challengers of Freud's legacy is Pittsburgh philosophy professor Adolf Gr nbaum. This paper is the author's answer to Gr nbaum's challenges, as presented at the 1998 IFPS Congress in Madrid. The author offers a rebuttal of a number of Gr nbaum's critical contentions about the legitimacy of psychoanalysis as a method, a theory of disorder, and a healing profession and analyzes the flaws in Gr nbaum's arguments. Y1 - 2001 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - Review Conci, M.: Sullivan Revisitato. The Perennial Sullivan JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 11 (No. 1, March 2002), pp. 78-80. Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - Power politics and psychoanalysis - an introduction JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge – Taylor and Francis) Vol. 12 (No. 2-3, June 2003), pp. 85-87. Y1 - 2003 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - Review Devreese, D.: L’acte manqué paranoïaque. Le délire de Schreber, entre les quatre discours universitaires et dans l’histoire allemande de Luther à Bismarck. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2003 JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge – Taylor and Francis) Vol. 13 (No. 3, 2004), pp. 201-208. Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - The snares of seduction in life and in therapy, or what do young girls (Spielrein) seek in their Aryan heroes (Jung), and vice versa? Part 1 JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis Oslo (Scandinavian University Press), Vol. 16 (No. 1, March 2007), pp. 12-27. Y1 - 2007 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - Imagination as reciprocal process and its role in the psychoanalytic situation JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis Oslo (Scandinavian University Press), Vol. 16 (No. 3, September 2007), pp. 152-163. Y1 - 2007 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - Review Battegay, R.: Grenzsituationen JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis Oslo (Scandinavian University Press), Vol. 16 (No. 3, September 2007), p. 135. Y1 - 2007 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - The uses of humor in life, neurosis and in psychotherapy: Part 1 JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge – Taylor and Francis) Vol. 17 (No. 3, September 2008), pp. 180-188. Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - Review Borgogno, F.: The Vancouver Interview JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge – Taylor and Francis) Vol. 17 (No. 3, September 2008), p. 195. Y1 - 2008 ER -