TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Henry Zvi T1 - Emotional reality: A further contribution to dramatology JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 24 (No. 4, 2015), pp. 191-203. N2 - 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. Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Henry Zvi T1 - Sabina Spielrein's Siegfried and other myths facts versus fictions JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 24 (No. 1, 2016), pp. 40-49. N2 - 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. Y1 - 2016 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - Love, Seduction, and Trauma JF - Psychoanalytic Review, Vol. 74 (No. 1, 1987), pp. 83-105. Y1 - 1987 N1 - Ex libris Marco Bacciagaluppi ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - Review Burston, D. R.: The Legacy of Erich Fromm JF - Psychoanalytic Books, Vol. 4 (No. 2, 1993), pp. 264-269. Y1 - 1993 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Henry Zvi T1 - My life with Paul Schreber JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 30 (No. 1, 2021), pp. 009-021. N2 - 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. Y1 - 2021 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Henry Zvi T1 - Review S. Benvenuto >What are perversions? Sexuality, ethics, psychoanalysis< JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 25 (No. 3, 2016), pp. 198-200. Y1 - 2016 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - Review Malcolm MacMillan: Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 22 (1994), pp. 560-561. Y1 - 1994 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - Review Melissa Knox: Oscar Wilde: A Long and Lovely Suicide JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 26 (1998), pp. 323-324. Y1 - 1998 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - The Partnership of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry in the Treatment of Psychosis and Borderline States: Its Evolution in North America JF - The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 39 (2011), pp. 499-524. Y1 - 2011 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Henri Zvi T1 - Sigmund Freuds widerständiges Erbe—Bernd Nitzschke zum 70. Geburtstag [Freud’s oppositional heirs—Bernd Nitzschke on his 70th birthday]. Psychoanalyse. Texte zur Sozialforschung 19 (2/2015) JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 27 (No. 1, 2018), pp. 070-072. Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Henri Zvi T1 - Review Joel Whitebook >Freud An Intellectual Biography< JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 27 (No. 2, 2018), pp. 129-131. Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - Dramatology in life, disorder, and psychoanalytic therapy: A further contribution to interpersonal psychoanalysis JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 18 (No. 3, 2009), pp. 135-148. N2 - Action and interaction, and emotion and thought as the inner wellsprings of action, play a central role in the lives of individuals, families, and society, spanning the continuum between everyday life and disorder. Until now, the narrative tradition has been the main methodology for portraying and formulating human action and interaction, and little has been written about the dramatic approach to life, disorder, and therapy. Since the essence of drama is action, dialogue, character, and emotion, it is time to give drama its due. The author proposes a methodological concept – dramatology – analogous to narratology, to highlight the dramatic method of investigating action and interaction in life, disorder, and therapy. Breuer and Freud presented both aspects of dramatology: dramatization in dream and fantasy, and dramatization in act, focusing on the person. This approach was elaborated by psychoanalysts with an interpersonal orientation, focusing on the person and speech as action. Dramatology is applied to exploring ongoing patient–therapist interactions as reality and as transference. Analyzing unconscious and latent dramatization in dream, fantasy, and enactment with free association is enhanced by utilizing clarification and confrontation, focusing on the manifest and mutually observable expressive form and style of actions and enactments, defenses and resistances, and the discharge and meaning of emotions. Dramatology puts forward a new paradigm for psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis. Y1 - 2009 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - The analysand and analyst team practicing reciprocal free association: Defenders and deniers JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19 (No. 3, 2010), pp. 155-164. N2 - By 1900, Freud had formulated an original and operational method of psychoanalytic treatment and research: the technique of free association. In 1912–1915 and later writings, he recommended it as a fundamental procedure and process, called the fundamental rule, in psychoanalytic therapy. In recent years, free association as a method has been variously misrepresented, misunderstood, and denied by some schools of psychoanalysis. This paper reviews the history of free associations and argues for upholding the continuity and relevance of Freud's fundamental methodology and for a renewal of interest in reciprocal, i.e., interactive and interpersonal, free association. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Henry Zvi T1 - Wilhelm Reich Revisited: The role of ideology in character analysis of the individual versus character analysis of the masses and the Holocaust JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 2, 2019), pp. 104-114. N2 - 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<. Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - In defense of Sabina Spielrein JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press), Vol. 5 (No. 3, September 1996), pp. 203-217. Y1 - 1996 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - Freud and the Interpersonal JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 6 (No. 3, October 1997), pp. 175-184. N2 - The goal of this communication is to uncover a hitherto unacknowledged interpersonal aspect in Freud: his implicit dyadic conception of symptom formation and interpretation, the competing claims of the object relation and the interpersonal schools notwithstanding. It is argued that Freud delineated a number of models of symptom formation: a drive, dream, and a dyadic, or relational model. I have renamed the dyadic model the love model? This has implications concerning areas of consensus and conflict among the various psychoanalytic schools of thought. Y1 - 1997 ER - 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 - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - The uses of humor in life, neurosis and in psychotherapy: Part 2 JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge – Taylor and Francis) Vol. 17 (No. 4, December 2008), pp. 232-239. Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - Reality, Dream and Trauma JF - Contemporary Psychoanalysis, New York (William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society), Vol. 19 (1983), pp. 423-443. Y1 - 1983 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lothane, Zvi T1 - Shreber's Feminine Identification: Paranoid Illness or Profound Insight? JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press), Vol. 2 (No. 3, September 1993), pp. 131-138. N2 - Schreber's fantasy of turning into a woman to be fertilized by God and produce a new race of mankind was a major motive for Superintendent of Sonnenstein, Dr Guido Weber, to maintain that Schreber was a case of chronic and incurable paranoia and unfit for life in society, failing to see the difference between the concrete and the metaphorical. Schreber not only proved Weber wrong, but prophetically anticipated a number of issues in current awareness of gender psychology and gender roles in society. – In Schreber's system the two principal elements of his delusions (his transformation into a woman and his favored relation to God) are linked by the assumption of a feminine attitude towarh God. It will be our task to show that there is an essential genetic relation between these two elements. Otherwise we shall be like a man holding a sieve under a he-goat while some one else milks it. Y1 - 1993 ER -