Psychoanalysis

Jeffrey Berman is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the University at Albany, State University of New York. His many books include Dying to Teach: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning; Writing the Talking Cure: Irvin D. Yalom and the Literature of Psychotherapy; and Writing Widowhood: The Landscapes of Bereavement, all published by SUNY Press.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Learning from Superiors 1. Sander L. Gilman's Psychoanalysis of Freud2. Allen Wheelis's Depiction of Remediable and Irremediable Suffering and Joan Wheelis's The Known, the Secret, the Forgotten3. Listening to Nancy J. Chodorow4. Christopher Bollas's Psychoanalytic Literary Education5. The Paradoxical Adam PhillipsConclusion: Psychoanalysis—A Work in ProgressWorks CitedIndex

"This deeply engaging and page-turning book delves into the rich and tangled intersections between psychoanalysis and literature. Jeffrey Berman offers us a unique cultural history of psychoanalysis, focusing on six analysts and the debates, conflicts, and prevailing assumptions of the times in which they wrote and worked. Berman shows, too, how analysts throughout the decades 'crack up' the epistemological certitudes of their own field by proffering literary analytic images and ideas. His book signifies a provocative turn that shifts the gaze of psychoanalysis away from the analysand on the couch and toward the analyst as a thinking, desiring, striving, failing, reading, writing, and vulnerable subject of humanity." — Lisa Farley, York University