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Freud Mfreud and Anti-Semitism ijcd The International Journal of Controversial Discussions Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century I Issue Two • August 2020 I Masthead Arnold D. Richards, Editor-in-Chief Ahron Friedberg, Managing Editor Elizabeth Ronis, Business Manager Jane Hall, Book Review Editor Editorial Board John S. Auerbach Ricardo Lombardi Sheldon Bach Anna Migliozzi Francis Baudry Jon Mills Daniel Benveniste Merle Molofsky James Tyler Carpenter Trevor Pederson Selma Duckler Rosina Pineyro Maaike Engelen Mark Poster David James Fisher Burton Seitler Ahron Friedberg Neal Spira Henry Friedman Nathan Szajnberg Jane Hall Susan Warshaw Susan Kavaler-Adler Brent Willock Douglas Kirsner Stefan R. Zicht Gilbert Kliman I Subscribe to The IJCD at ijcd.internationalpsychoanalysis.net ©2020 The International Journal of Controversial Discussions All rights reserved. No part of this journal may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, including Internet usage, without written permission of the authors. ijcd The International Journal of Controversial Discussions Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century M Issue Two • August 2020 Douglas Kirsner Issue Editor’s Introduction 1 Organization and Institutes Section 3 Fred Busch The Troubling Problems of Knowledge in Psychoanalytic Institutes 3 Douglas A. Chavis—Discussant Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom 27 Busch—Response to Doug Chavis 47 Jane Hall—Discussant 50 Busch—Response to Jane Hall 60 Henry Friedman, MD What is Wrong with Psychoanalysis: The Problems Created by Experience Distant Theory and How to Correct Them 62 Cecilio Paniagua, M.D.—Discussant, Response to F. Busch and H. Friedman 75 Henry Lothane—Discussant On analysts’ hostility to the method of free association 82 Shmuel Ehrlich—Discussant Psychoanalysis as the Tower of Babel 84 Henry Friedman—Response to discussants 95 Busch—Response to Henry Friedman 100 R. D. Hinshelwood Unresolvable controversies? Investigating the unconscious in groups 102 Joseph Aguayo Psychoanalytic Institutional Life and Its Discontents: Then and Now. A Bionian Analysis. 119 Arnold Richards, MD Personal and Political History of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute 138 Merle Molofsky—Discussant 151 Jill Savege Scharff and David E. Scharff The nature, structure and experience of an experimental distance learning psychoanalytic center for training 155 Anita Bryce A history of the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis 174 Kerry Kelly Novick An Essay on Psychoanalytic Training and Identity 180 Mark Leffert The Role and Decline of Power in Psychoanalytic Organizations 188 Barnaby Barratt Rediscovering Psychoanalysis 200 Warren Procci A Better Future for Psychoanalysis?: The Impact of The Decline of Our Politics of Old 214 Narcissism and The Psychoanalytic Model of Personality 226 Trevor Pederson Narcissism, Echoism, Perfection, and Death: Towards a Structural Psychoanalysis. 226 John Auerbach—Discussant, Neither a Reflection nor an Echo 303 Trevor Pederson—Response to Auerbach 340 Ronnie Carmeli Lordship and Bondage–Echoism and Narcissism: Reflections on Pederson’s ‘”Narcissism, Echoism, Perfection, and Death: Towards a Structural Psychoanalysis” 357 Trevor Pederson—Response to Carmeli 365 Freud 385 Douglas Kirsner Freud and Antisemitism 385 Michael Poff The Fallacy of Pathological Patriarchy as the Cause of the Oedipus Complex 395 Psychoanalysis as Science or Art? 431 Rebecca Coleman Curtis Psychoanalysis: Science or Art? Science and Art 431 Michael J. Poff—Discussant Art and Science. Infantile Sexuality and the Oedipus Complex 453 Rebecca C. Curtis, Oedipus Today—Response to Poff 463 Nathan Szajnberg and Yikun Wu, Ph.D. 465 As-If Countertransference: A Chinese Experience Francis Baudry—Discussant 494 Jing Chen, Discussant 499 Nathan Szanjberg Response to Baudry and Chen 502 Loray Daws, Review of The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: Transformative new metapsychology and interactive clinical theory By Susan Kavaler-Adler 504 Susan Kavaler-Adler,—Response to Loray Daws 507 Author Bios 516 M Editor’s Introduction Douglas Kirsner I am pleased to be editing this second issue of what we hope you will agree contains some stimulating ideas about some truly controversial issues. The major theme of this issue concerns organizational, educational, and institutional issues. Readers will find also a substantial exchange about narcissism, articles about Freud and anthropology, and Freud and anti-Semitism, and some ongoing discussion from our first issue about psychoanalysis as art or science. Organizational and institutional issues have long plagued psychoanaly- sis. Psychoanalysis is infamous for its fratricidal disputes, struggles for the mantle, splits and dissension. Organizations and institutions can sty- mie and stultify as well as advance and facilitate freedom and creativity. Cult-like behavior, rigidification, sectarianism, insularity, intolerance, dogmatism and authoritarianism have featured in internecine struggles in psychoanalytic education, training, and organization, ranging from lo- cal societies through to international bodies. Nevertheless, there have been many critiques of training paradigms and moves for reform, especially over the more recent past. The membership of the American Psychoanalytic Association, for example, has elected re- form-minded leaders at many levels, and there is an impetus for change. Interdisciplinarity, tolerance and openness have substantially improved and there has been increasing pluralism in education, approach, and discussions. The problematic role and function of training analysis have come under increasing challenge. But ongoing structural problems re- main which need to be addressed. This issue contributes to such explorations. Have there been structural changes in outlook that advance the field, or have some of the same old problems of authoritarianism, intolerance and insularity continued to pervade the field, albeit under the surface? For example, is there some- thing wrong with the conception of what constitutes ‘knowledge’ in psy- choanalytic institutions that impedes real progress? 1 IJCD: International Journal of Controversial Discussions Issue 2 I want to warmly thank all the contributors for their thoughtful contri- butions which enliven and stimulate thinking and debate in a field that has so regularly been reported dead. I have been impressed by the en- thusiasm of contributors for this new project. We are living up to the title of the journal—The International Journal of Controversial Discussions—not only by structuring open dialogue highlighting controversial issues but by being international. A number of countries are represented. I am Australian, and we have contributions beyond the US from around the world. This new journal exemplifies an open-ended and respectful approach to different perspectives. Disagreement and argument allow a way for- ward, and real ongoing discussion on controversial issues is essential to progress. We trust that this journal helps to fill a need in progress in the field of psychoanalysis and hope that you will find these discussions and con- tests of ideas productive and valuable. 2 IJCD: International Journal of Controversial Discussions Issue 2 Organization and Institutes Section The Troubling Problems of Knowledge in MPsychoanalytic Institutes Fred Busch We are in conflict over the importance of the transmission of knowledge. It has been idealized in the abstract and marginalized in the concrete. The author’s impression is that this has led to problems in the self-definition of analysts, and that this is an important factor in the authoritarianism in education, and the reaction against this authoritarianism as seen in the influence of postmodernism, with its skepticism of “knowledge” and its trumpeting of subjectivity. Trends in education, where students are now viewed as consumers, have also affected how knowledge is viewed. Can we maintain a flexible view of “truths” while not debunking knowledge? While the majority of studies and reflections on this topic have focused on training in the United States, there are indications this is a problem in Societies throughout the international psychoanalytic community. Authority: an individual (as a specialist in a given field) who is the source of conclusive statements or testimony (Webster’s Third International Dictionary, 1993). Authoritarian: Favoring a principle of blind submission to authority (ibid). Often authority and authoritarianism are confused, and this may also happen with the concepts of authority and the exercise of power. Authority is often used interchangeably with the term power“ .” However, their meanings differ: while “power” is defined as the ability to influence somebody to do something that he/she would not otherwise have done, authority refers to a claim of legitimacy. As Kernberg (1996) noted, 3 IJCD: International Journal of Controversial Discussions Issue 2 “Authority, in short, refers to the “functional” aspects of the exercise of power; it is the legitimate authority vested in leadership and involves the requirements for carrying out leadership functions” (p.142). Shephard and Green (2003) believe legitimacy is vital to the notion of authority and is the main means by which authority is distinguished from the more general concept of power. Power can be exerted by the use of force or violence. Power becomes the main vehicle by which authoritarianism is carried out. On Knowledge Knowledge! We have long had an ambivalent relationship with it in psychoanalysis. Who has it, who doesn’t, who says who has it, and who doesn’t—these
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