- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Why Question Freud?
- I. Fundamental Contradictions of Freudian Thought
- Dream Interpretation: Free Association or Universal Symbolism?
- The Concept of Psychical Reality and Its Traps
- II. Psychoanalysis in the Eye of Literature
- Applied Psychoanalysis in Question
- A Case Study in Literary Psychoanalysis: Jensen’s Gradiva
- The Distortions of Psychoanalysis: Freud versus Jensen
- III. Transmissions of Psychoanalysis
- Censorship and Secrets in the Historical Topography of Psychoanalysis
- The Setbacks of Catharsis: Emmy von N.
- Neutralizing Constructive Criticism: Freud Faced with Ferenczi’s Research on Trauma
- IV. Gaining Insight into Freud
- Methodological Issues
- The Freud Family’s Disaster seen through the Original Documents
- Freud’s Self-Analysis and the Field of Biographical Studies
- Freud’s Dreams: Witnesses to His Family Disaster
- The Secret of Psychoanalysis
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index


Questions for Freud
The Secret History of Psychoanalysis
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Publication Date: 10/16/2000