Transference
Brigid Brophy, 15 April 1982
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
by Janet Malcolm.
Picador, 174 pp., £1.95, February 1982,9780330267373 Show More
by Janet Malcolm.
Picador, 174 pp., £1.95, February 1982,
Psychoanalytic Psychology of Normal Development
by Anna Freud.
Hogarth, 389 pp., £15, February 1982,0 7012 0543 1 Show More
by Anna Freud.
Hogarth, 389 pp., £15, February 1982,
Record of a Friendship: The Correspondence of Wilhelm Reich and A.S. Neill
edited by Beverley Placzek.
Gollancz, 429 pp., £12.50, January 1982,0 575 03054 2 Show More
edited by Beverley Placzek.
Gollancz, 429 pp., £12.50, January 1982,
“... The phenomenon of transference – how we all invent each other according to early blueprints – was Freud’s most original and radical discovery. The idea of infant sexuality and of the Oedipus complex can be accepted with a good deal more equanimity than the idea that the most precious and inviolate of entities – personal relations – is actually a messy jangle of misapprehensions, at best an uneasy truce between powerful solitary fantasy systems ... ”
