Ferenczi Dialogues

Raluca Soreanu is a psychoanalyst, member of Circulo Psicanalitico do Rio de Janeiro, and professor in Psychoanalytic Studies at the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. Jakob Staberg is a practicing psychoanalyst and member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature and lecturer in aesthetics at Soedertoern University. Jenny Willner is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen.

• Foreword by Adrienne Harris Reading Ferenczi A Pirouette Backwards in Seven-League Boots An Introduction by Jenny Willner, Jakob Staberg and Raluca SoreanuCuts Through the Contemporary Scene Ferenczi Dialogues – an Outline The Seven Threads of the ‘Ferenczi Revival’ PART 1 Instead of Language: Confusion Sigmund Freud / Sándor Ferenczi Jakob StabergFerenczi in the Psychoanalytic Milieu Transference Trauma The Domain of Dreams A Painful Encounter ‘Too much of the father’: A Schreberian Pre-History response to Jakob Staberg, by Jenny WillnerThe Tactile Eye and Queer Spectrality response to Jakob Staberg, by Raluca SoreanuPART 2 Catastrophes and Genitality Ferenczi’s Thalassa and the Politics of Bioanalysis 91 Jenny WillnerFreud’s Theory of Sexuality Meets Popular Darwinism in a Soldiers’ Library The Fish-Orgy: Wilhelm Bölsche’s Herrings and Ferenczi’s ThalassaWeltanschauung: Fetishistic Disavowal in Popular Darwinism Neurotic Evolution: Bioanalysis vs. Biologism Heroic Organs, Hysteric Organs: The Method of Bioanalysis The Politics of Bioanalysis Reading Against the Grain: On How Organs Crave Interpretation 131 response to Jenny Willner, by Jakob StabergWhat Does an Organ Do? 137 response to Jenny Willner, by Raluca SoreanuPART 3 Catastrophe and the Creativity of Fragments Toward a Phenomenology of the Scene of Trauma Raluca SoreanuA Frame: On Ferenczi’s Model of Memory Repetition Scene Regression The Dream of Fragments in The Clinical Diary On the Identification with the Aggressor Moment 1: Paralysis Moment 2: Dematerialisation Moment 3: Traumatic Imitation Moment 4: Guilt Moment 5: Getting Beside Oneself Moment 6: Traumatic Progression Moment 7: Autotomy Moment 8: Neo-Formations Moment 9: Orpha Moment 10: Reconstruction There is Hope for Life in Fragments: Thinking with Ferenczi’s Images 193 response to Raluca Soreanu, by Jenny WillnerToward an Eventful Psychoanalysis 203 response to Raluca Soreanu, by Jakob StabergBibliography About the Authors Index

The interdisciplinarity and the format of dialogue among this threesome has produced a powerful work – in regard to psychoanalytic theory, its history and to the history and importance of Sándor Ferenczi.Adrienne Harris, New York University (NYU)