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- Publisher
- Springer Journals
- Copyright
- 2019 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
- ISSN
- 0002-9548
- eISSN
- 1573-6741
- DOI
- 10.1057/s11231-019-09213-2
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Abstract
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2019, 79, (629–632) 2019 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 0002-9548/19 www.palgrave.com/journals Book Reviews Elizabeth Severn: The ‘‘Evil Genius’’ of Psychoanalysis, by Arnold William Rachman, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2018, 332pp and Confusion of Tongues: A Return to Sa´ndor Ferenczi,by Miguel Gutie´rrez-Pela´ez, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2018, 186pp. The current renaissance of interest in Ferenczi follows a period of a prolonged and painful silence about this pioneer of psychoanalysis. What is more, it was a silencing. In his new book, Elizabeth Severn: The ‘‘Evil Genius’’ of Psychoanalysis, Arnold William Rachman has dedicated many pages to the silencing of the innovative and original thinker Sa ´ ndor Ferenczi. What Rachman calls a Tod- schweigen, the title of chapter 7, a death by silence (following the suggestion of Vienna trained psychoanalyst Esther Menaker), was a series of decade-long, brutal actions to suppress one of the most interesting voices in psychoanalysis. Rachman takes us on a very personal journey through his own life. Starting with the laconic statement: ‘‘I did not come to psychoanalysis easily.’’ (p. 2), he presents his ‘‘difficult struggle to find a home in psychoanalysis’’ (p. 2). The motor of this struggle
Journal
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis – Springer Journals
Published: Dec 1, 2019
Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis