The Freud–Ferenczi controversy in light of Emma Eckstein's circumcisio

  • 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. Sándor 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.

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Author:Carlo Bonomi
Parent Title (English):International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 25 (No. 4, 2016), pp. 202-210.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2016
Release Date:2017/11/20
Format:PDF-scan upon request / PDF-Scan auf Anfrage
IdNo:Bonomi_C_2016
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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