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CHAPTER TITLE I ON FREUD’S “INHIBITIONS, SYMPTOMS AND ANXIETY” CONTEMPORARY FREUD Turning Points and Critical Issues Series Editor: Gennaro Saragnano IPA Publications Committee Gennaro Saragnano (Rome), Chair; Leticia Glocer Fiorini (Buenos Aires), Consultant; Samuel Arbiser (Buenos Aires); Paulo Cesar Sandler (São Paulo); Christian Seulin (Lyon); Mary Kay O’Neil (Montreal); Gail S Reed (New York); Catalina Bronstein (London); Rhoda Bawdekar (London), ex-officio as Publications Officer; Paul Crake (London), IPA Executive Director (ex officio) On Freud’s “Analysis Terminable and Interminable” edited by Joseph Sandler On Freud’s “On Narcissism: An Introduction” edited by Joseph Sandler, Ethel Spector Person, Peter Fonagy On Freud’s “Observations on Transference-Love” edited by Ethel Spector Person, Aiban Hagelin, Peter Fonagy On Freud’s “Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming” edited by Ethel Spector Person, Peter Fonagy, Sérvulo Augusto Figueira On Freud’s “A Child Is Being Beaten” edited by Ethel Spector Person On Freud’s “Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego” edited by Ethel Spector Person On Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia” edited by Leticia Glocer Fiorini, Thierry Bokanowski, Sergio Lewkowicz On Freud’s “The Future of an Illusion” edited by Mary Kay O’Neil and Salman Akhtar On Freud’s “Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence” edited by Thierry Bokanowski and Sergio Lewkowicz On Freud’s “Femininity” edited by Leticia Glocer Fiorini and Graciela Abelin-Sas On Freud’s “Constructions in Analysis” edited by Thierry Bokanowski and Sergio Lewkowicz On Freud’s “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” edited by Salman Akhtar and Mary Kay O’Neil On Freud’s “Negation” edited by Mary Kay O’Neil and Salman Akhtar On Freud’s “On Beginning the Treatment” edited by Christian Seulin and Gennaro Saragnano ON FREUD’S “INHIBITIONS, SYMPTOMS AND ANXIETY” Edited by Samuel Arbiser & Jorge Schneider Series Editor Gennaro Saragnano CONTEMPORARY FREUD Turning Points and Critical Issues First published in 2013 by Karnac Books Ltd 118 Finchley Road London NW3 5HT Copyright © 2013 to Samuel Arbiser and Jorge Schneider for the edited collection, and to the individual authors for their contributions. The rights of the contributors to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted in accordance with §77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978–1–78049–097–7 Edited, designed and produced by The Studio Publishing Services Ltd www.publishingservicesuk.co.uk e-mail: [email protected] Printed in Great Britain www.karnacbooks.com CONTENTS CONTEMPORARY FREUD IPA Publications Committee vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS xi Introduction Samuel Arbiser 1 PART I "Inhibitions, symptoms and anxiety" (1926d) Sigmund Freud 9 PART II Discussion of "Inhibitions, symptoms and anxiety" 101 1 The correlation between anxiety and danger: vicissitudes of mental functioning Horacio Rotemberg 103 v vi Contents 2 On the complex, relational nature of Freud's thinking on primary anxiety in Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety: differences from and ties to Klein Rachel B. Blass 119 3 Winnicott and Kohut: their theories of anxiety Kenneth M. Newman 133 4 Primordial anxiety, drive, and the need for the progressive movement Luciane Falcão 142 5 Clarifications and comments on Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety from a Lacanian perspective Leonardo Peskin 155 6 Psychoanalytic theory of anxiety: proposals for reconsideration Edward Nersessian 172 7 Traumatic seduction and sexual inhibition Elsa Schmid-Kitsikis 185 8 Freud's writing in the twenties: theory construction and clinical research in Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety Giovanni Foresti 200 9 The death of an adult child: contemporary psychoanalytic models of mourning Jorge Schneider 219 10 An unexpected clinical experience: rethinking affects Samuel Arbiser 231 REFERENCES 243 INDEX 253 CONTEMPORARY FREUD IPA Publications Committee This significant series was founded by Robert Wallerstein and subse- quently edited by Joseph Sandler, Ethel Spector Person, Peter Fonagy and lately by Leticia Glocer Fiorini. Its important contributions have always greatly interested psychoanalysts of different latitudes. It is therefore my great honour, as the new Chair of the Publications Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association, to con- tinue the tradition of this most successful series. The objective of this series is to approach Freud’s work from a present and contemporary point of view. On the one hand, this means highlighting the fundamental contributions of his work that constitute the axes of psychoanalytic theory and practice. On the other, it implies the possibility of getting to know and spreading the ideas of present psychoanalysts about Freud’s oeuvre, both where they coincide and where they differ. This series considers at least two lines of development: a contem- porary reading of Freud that reclaims his contributions and a clari- fication of the logical and epistemic perspectives from which he is read today. Freud’s theory has branched out, and this has led to a theoretical, technical, and clinical pluralism that has to be worked through. It has therefore become necessary to avoid a snug and uncritical coexistence vii viii Contemporary Freud of concepts in order to consider systems of increasing complexities that take into account both the convergences and the divergences of the categories at play. Consequently, this project has involved an additional task—that is, gathering psychoanalysts from different geographical regions representing, in addition, different theoretical stances, in order to be able to show their polyphony. This also means an extra effort for the reader that has to do with distinguishing and discriminating, establishing relations or contradictions that each reader will have to eventually work through. Being able to listen to other theoretical viewpoints is also a way of exercising our listening capacities in the clinical field. This means that the listening should support a space of freedom that would allow us to hear what is new and original. In this spirit we have brought together authors deeply rooted in the Freudian tradition and others who have developed theories that had not been explicitly taken into account in Freud’s work. “Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety” is without a doubt one of the most important theoretical writings of Freud’s. Written in 1925, it contains the seeds of virtually every development psychoanalysis would achieve in the following years. Samuel Arbiser and Jorge Schneider, the editors to whom goes our gratitude, have collected here a series of articles from well distin- guished psychoanalysts who put Freud’s work in perspective, and add to the depth and solidity of our shared theoretical-technical foundations. Special thanks are therefore due to the contributors to this volume which enriches the prestigious Contemporary Freud series. Gennaro Saragnano Series Editor Chair, IPA Publications Committee ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In publishing this book, we would like to express our gratitude to all those people who collaborated in making it possible. First, all the contributors who have provided material that we are sure the reader will find enjoyable and stimulating. Moreover, our gratitude goes to our colleagues on the Publications Committee from whom we received continual support and wise professional advice, and in particular to the former and current chairs, Leticia Glocer de Fiorini and Gennaro Saragnano. Special mention should also go to Rhoda Bawdekar who, with a keen eye and diligent manner, ensured that the project did not stray from its set objectives. Finally, thanks also to our publishers, Karnac Books. Samuel Arbiser & Jorge Schneider ix EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS Samuel Arbiser is a Medical Doctor, a Full Member, with didactic role, of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association, a Lecturer at the ApdeBA Mental Health University Institute (IUSAM), Member of the Committee of Publications of the IPA, and author of various articles in Spanish, English, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese. Rachel Blass is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a member and training analyst of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. She lives and practices in London where she is Professor of Psychoanalysis and of Psychology of Religion at Heythrop College, the University of London and a Visiting Professor at University College London. She is on the board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and is the editor of its “Controversies” section. Rachel Blass has published and lectured widely on the conceptual, episte- mological, and ethical foundations of psychoanalysis and their rele- vance to contemporary thinking and practice, focusing on Freud’s work and its evolution in Kleinian psychoanalysis. Luciane Falcão is a psychoanalyst; Full Member of the Psychoanalytic Society of Porto Alegre (SPPA); representative of the SPPA at the Psychoanalytic Congress of the French Languages and Member of the Editorial Commission of the Psychoanalytic Review of the SPPA. xi xii Editors and contributors Giovanni Foresti, MD, PhD, is a full member of the IPA and of the SPI