Freud's Encounter with Charcot and His Epistemological Break (original) (raw)

Freud with Charcot: Freud's discovery and the question of diagnosis

The International journal of psycho-analysis, 2014

Although Charcot's seminal role in influencing Freud is widely stated, although Freud's trip to Paris to study with Charcot is well recognized as pivotal in his shift from neurological to psychopathological work, a key fact of the Freudian heuristic remains largely underestimated: namely, that Freud's psychopathological breakthrough, which gave birth to psychoanalysis, cannot be separated from his 'diagnostic preoccupation', which is a crucial and at times the first organizing principle of his earliest writings. The purpose of this article is therefore to reopen the question of diagnosis by following its development along the path leading from Charcot to Freud. The authors demonstrate that Freud's careful attention to diagnostic distinctions follows strictly in the direction of Charcot's 'nosological method'. More importantly, the article intends to identify the precise way in which his ideas operate in Freud's own work, in order to understand...

Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2012

Donnet's style is at times condensed and elliptic. One has to read and reread the text. ''Il faut le faire travailler''. 2 Yet at the same time this book is evocative and thought-provoking. Although almost no clinical material is presented one can identify the analyst at work. Donnet suggests that clinical reports retrace the path of the patient's free associations and the work of the analyst's countertransference; this is what I felt this book gives us access to, which is more than the words and ideas it contains. As one reads, one participates in the very activity of association and thinking of this great analyst.

Translator's Introduction to 'Interpreting (with) Freud' and 'Exigency and Going Astray'

Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 2006

This short piece seeks to introduce the reader unfamiliar with Laplanche to the scope of his work, and to the extraordinary evolution of his thought. It indicates the place of ''Interpreting (with) Freud'' and ''Exigency and Going Astray'' within the chronological and theoretical itinerary of Laplanche's enterprise, and attempts to ''bridge'' the two texts by indicating the lines of continuity between them, and by clarifying the points of development which take place from the one to the other.

Studies in Freud

2024

Support my work: https://buy.stripe.com/cN24jE2Qvfum10ceUV A collection of my notes on Freudian Psychoanalysis. Based mostly on his 'Outline of Psychoanalysis'. This is part of my study notes on psychology and my learning to become an educated psychotherapist.

From Dissidence vis-à-vis Freudian Theory to the Emergence of the Freudian Thing

Recherches en psychanalyse, 2012

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The Psychological Approach: Freud

Having discussed two of the basic approaches to literary understanding, the traditional and the formalistic, we now examine a third interpretive perspective, the psychological. Of all the critical approaches to literature, this has been one of the most controversial, the most abused, and-for many readers-the least appreciated. Yet, for all the difficulties involved in its proper application to interpretive analysis, the psychological approach can be fascinating and rewarding. Our purpose in this chapter is threefold: (1) to account briefly for the misunderstanding of psychological criticism; (2) to outline the psychological theory most commonly used as an interpretive tool by modern critics; and (3) to show by examples how readers may apply this mode of interpretation to enhance their understanding and appreciation of literature.