CONTENTS

Introduction: The Psychoanalytic Century

CHAPTER 1: JEWISH FAMILIES, EUROPEAN STORIES: A DEPRESSION AND ITS AFTERMATH

Libussa

Jews and Catholics

Sándor Ferenczi

Karl Abraham

London

CHAPTER 2: ANALYZING HER CHILDREN: FROM SCANDAL TO PLAY TECHNIQUE

The Unconscious Knowledge (of the Child) Versus the Enlightenment (of the Parents)

Inventing Stories with Erich/Fritz

Hans and (Perhaps) Melitta

Playing? Interpreting

Plain Words, Negative Transference, and Decondensation of the Phantasy

CHAPTER 3: THE PRIORITY AND INTERIORITY OF THE OTHER AND THE BOND: THE BABY IS BORN WITH HIS OBJECTS

Narcissism and the Object

Inside/Outside

The “Paranoid-Schizoid Position”: Splitting and Projective Identification

The Depressive Position: The Whole Object, the Psychic Realm, and Reparation

CHAPTER 4: ANXIETY OR DESIRE: IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE DEATH DRIVE

Eros Absorbed into Thanatos: Sadistic Devouring and the Anal Attack

The Grief that Affords Us a Soul

The Power of Envy and a Wager on Gratitude

Petits Fours, kleine Frou, Frau Klein

CHAPTER 5: A MOST EARLY AND TYRANNICAL SUPEREGO

From the Earliest Stages of the Oedipus Conflict

Neither Boys nor Girls Can Avoid It

Persecuting Idealizations and “Concretizations”

The Case of Richard: Goodness Versus Hitler-Ubu

How Can We Avoid Being Alone?

CHAPTER 6: THE CULT OF THE MOTHER OR AN ODE TO MATRICIDE? THE PARENTS

The Perpetually Renewed Breast

A Primary Feminine Phase

Female Sexuality …

… and Male Sexuality

The “Combined” or Coupled Parents

An Oresteia

CHAPTER 7: THE PHANTASY AS A METAPHOR INCARNATE

The Representative Before Representation

“Prenarrative Envelopes” Between Anxiety and Language

Do Women Have an Affinity for the Archaic?

CHAPTER 8: THE IMMANENCE OF SYMBOLISM AND ITS DEGREES

From Equations to Symbols: Dick

Klein on Negativity

The Post-Kleinian Approach to the Archaic and the Primary

Cultural Acts of Sublimation: Art and Literature

CHAPTER 9: FROM THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO THE FILIGREE OF THE LOYAL AND DISLOYAL

A Founder Without a Text

Mother and Daughter

Peace and War Among the Ladies

CHAPTER 10: THE POLITICS OF KLEINIANISM

From the Great Controversial Discussions to the Independents

Lacan’s Envy and Gratitude

The Left and the Feminists Take Hold of the “Inspired Gut Butcher”

The Inner Mother and the Depth of Thought

Notes

Bibliography

Index