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SAMIKSA T^^ Psychoanalysis at the Millennium — A Unitary Theory LEO RANGELL When Words Don't Come — Silence in PsychoanaSytic Communication DANIEL WIDLOCHER Psychoanalytic Education : Past, Present and Future ARNOLD M. COOPER • Mind and Brain : Attempting to Bridge our Understanding of Conscious and Unconscious Processes FRED M. LEVIN • Psychoanalysis After Freud A Response to Frederick Crews and Other Critics GLEN O. GABBARD, SHELDON M. GOODMAN, AND ARNOLD D. RICHARDS The Influence of Narcissism on Erotic Love ALIRIO DANTAS JR. The Tree of Life SERGE LEBOVICI * Hanns Sachs, The "Analyst's Analyst" SANFORO GIFFORD Freedom from the Known SARALA KAPOOR Book Reviews VOLUME 52 1998 ANNUAL SAMIKSA CONTENTS JOURNAL OF THE INDIAN PSYCHOANALYTICAL SOCIETY Journal of Psychoanalysis at the Millennium Samiksa is published annually. The annual subscription payable in advance is Rs.150/ The Indian A Unitary Theory - (Rupees One Hundred and Fifty) for inland subscribers and U.S.$ 40.00 (Forty) for Psychoanalytical by Leo Rangell overseas subscribers. Subscription should be sent to Indian Psychoanalytical Society, Society 14, Parsibagan Lane, Calcutta-700 009, India. Drafts should be made payable to "Indian When Words Don't Come — Silence Psychoanalytical Society". in Psychoanalytic Communication Volume 52, 1998 by Daniel Widlocher 13 MANUSCRIPTS Psychoanalytic Education : Past, Manuscripts of articles should be sent directly to the Editor and must be in English. Present and Future All editorial communications should be addressed to the Editor, Samlksn, Indian by Arnold M. Cooper 27 Psychoanalytical Society, 14, Parsibagan Lane, Calcutta-700 009, India. Editor Contributors are requested to submit four clear copies — must be printed on bond Hironmoy Ghosal Mind and Brain ; Attempting to Bridge our Understanding of Conscious and paper with at least 1 '/2 inch margin on all four sides. All parts must be "double spaced" including references, footnotes and extracts. Footnotes are to be numbered Unconscious Processes sequentially and should appear at the foot of the page where they are cited; footnote by Fred M. Levin 39 Asst. Editors numbers should be typed one space above the line without punctuation or parentheses. Psychoanalysis After Freud — A response Initial footnotes referring to the title of the paper, or the author do not carry a number. M.K. Dastur Jhuma Basak to Frederick Crews and Other Critics Author's address and affiliation should appear following the reference list at the end Bani Pain by Glen O. Gabbard, Sheldon of the paper. M. Goodman, and Arnold D. Richards 49 Full reference to all works cited in the text should be given in the list of references at the end of the paper. Reference list must be printed double spaced. Author's should The Influence of Narcissism on Erotic Love be listed alphabetically and their works chronologically by date of publication (when Editorial Hoard. by Alirio Dantas Jr 61 several of the author's works are referred to). When an author has published several Rafael Moses The Tree of Life works in the same year, the date is followed by a, b, c, etc. Authors' names are not Dhirendranath Nandi by Serge Lebovici 69 repeated in the reference list; they are indicated by a line. References should only Saradindu Bancrji include works cited in the text. Hironmoy Ghosal Hanns Sachs, The "Analyst's Analyst" Sailesh Kapadia For books — give tittle, place of publication, name of publisher and year of publication by Sanford Gifford 83 Sarosh Forbes of the edition cited (if different from the original publication date). When referring to Mallika Akbar Freedom from the Known the writings of Sigmund Freud, cite only the Standard Edition, e.g. S.E. M.KL. Dastur by Sarala Kapoor 89 j For articles — give title, abbreviated name of the journal, volume number, and inclusive page numbers. Book Reviews 99 Reviewers : References in the text should be given by quoting the journal, volume number, and 14, Parsibagan Lane Moinak Biswas, Jhuma Basak inclusive page numbers. Calcutta - 700 009 References in the text should be given by quoting the Authors' name followed by the year of publication in parenthesis. It should be arranged in alphabetical order following standard rule, e.g. PSYCHOANALYSIS AT THE MILLENNIUM A UNITARY THEORY Leo Rangell "in this paper, I present a unitary theory of psychoanalysis in the place of the present pluralistic theoretical culture. While alternative theoretical systems to the basic theory discovered and expanded by Freud have been present since the begin- nings of psychoanalysis, its modem urgent forms look root in the mid-sixties, and received quasi-official sanction and status with the positig of the question, "One Psychoanalysis or Many?" in the Presidential Address of the IPA in 1988, to which the answer automatically given was "many". I proposed to the same question the answer of "one", a unified, composite theory of psychoanalysis which is to be distinguished from non-psxchoanalylic theories of human behaviour. The reasoning and contents behind such an approach are described. " it is a privilege and a challenge to be asked to world today, trends travel with electronic write a topical piece on psychoanalysis for speed. As you therefore know, psychoanalysts this new phase of the Journal Samiksa. I re- are at the present phase of our thinking in a gret very much that the region of the world it period of theoretical pluralism, a point of view represents is one I will have to address with- or rather an attitude toward our scientific sta- out first-hand knowledge of its look and feel. tus which, after gradually evolving over the India is one of the places I did not have the past three decades, was officially articulated opportunity to visit during the years of my and affectively sanctioned at a discreet mo- Presidency of the International Psychoanalytic ment in the scientific life of international Association three decades ago, nor in my sci- psychoanalysis. I am referring to a "happen- entific activities since then. 1 will therefore be ing" when the question "One psychoanalysis communicating, at least for the time being, or many?" was posed in his Presidential Ad- from afar, and from visual, printed and his- dress by Dr. Robert Wallerstein (1988) at the torical images. International Psychoanalytic Congress in Montreal in 1987. His own promptly supplied What 1 wish to convey to the psychoana- answer of "many", which was received in a lysts of your part of the world, on the invitation mood of expectancy and celebration, has since of the Editor to write around the subject of then been taken for granted as almost beyond "whither psychoanalysis", which I find con- debate. Confronting the plethora of psycho- genial, is my view of this moment of our analytic theories which by that time were held history. As an overview, I will reflect upon by large numbers and divided the analytic what I think does or should He ahead, as the world, Wallerstcin declared lhat no theory had field we represent approaches the millennium the right to claim scientific superordinacy over and its own centenary. any other. His method ol ordering the empiri- Since distance is shrinking and there is cal data of theoretical divisions was to state scarcely any information time throughout the that abstract theories divide us, while clinical I.co Rangail. M.D., Honorary President, International Psychoanalytic Association. Past President. International and American Psychoanalytic Associations. Clinical Professor, U.C.L.A. and U.C. San Francisco. 1 SAMIKSA LEO RANGELL PSYCHOANALYSIS AT THE MILLENNIUM - A UNITARY THEORY theory, which guides practice, is the common neuroses but there is only one way to under- lions to be made first upon one's self, by in- transference, then countertransference later, ground which binds us. stand them" (p. 554). That way, to trospection and intuition, one's attention being each came in due time. psychoanalysts, is the psychoanalytic way. drawn and curiosity elicited, about one's Since this scientific assertion was presented There was no reason for this succession of dreams, or sexuality and surrounding phenom- from a position of highest authority, the psy- In. the interest of brevity and the develop- discoveries which was cumulative and coher- ena, or about private or idiosyncratic symptoms choanalytic body has confidently considered ment of my theme, I will present a macroscopic ent not to continue as a model. Freud's felt to be ego-alien (without yet knowing these itself to be in an era of pluralism and eclecti- overview, of the forest rather than the trees, progression, from clinical work and wider terms). cism as the way to scientific harmony and an aerial view as it were, of the history of the social observations, as well as his self-analy- cohesion. Almost all Institutes today contain century of psychoanalytic theory, its vicissi- A second method of theory progression is sis, was added to and expanded, as well as advocates of varied theories of psychoanaly- tudes and its present position. In our usual less rational or scientific, and is fuelled more modified and given new directions, by him- sis, and appeal to potential candidates with debates, mostly trees or even branches arc by group processes than by individual self and many of his early co-pioneers, building the promise to represent all theories equally typically concentrated upon while whole for- motivations and inner reflection. Here we simultaneously on parallel clinical experiences. in their training. In the spirit of democracy, ests can be missed. Also obscured and not have influences by group identifications, hori- But Freud did not do nearly as well with the students will then gravitate to whichever seen are the relations between forests, here zontal or vertical, relations to one's peers or the dissemination of his discoveries as he did theoretical system they feel the most personal between alternative systems of psychoanalytic upward to a group leader who sets the ambi- in achieving them.