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This book is written with the interest and motivation of the historical scientist. By illuminating the disagreements and dissensions between Stekel and Freud, the authors contend that marginalization is symptomatic of large group processes and is a necessary process enabling a system of ideas to evolve. Bos and Groenendijk contend that, in order to look at why a person becomes marginalized, the researcher has to look at the dialogical discourse, that is, the latent content of the unconscious forces that create the dynamics between the players involved in the marginalization process.
The method the authors employ to study this phenomenon is based on the model inspired by the post-structuralist approach as exemplified by Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida et al., which points out the importance of the unconscious aspects of culture in its manifestations through the discourse and the text in which it is inscribed. In order to achieve this task, the authors examine three main elements: the socio-ideological dimension of marginalization; the phenomenon of self-marginalization by one of the early participants of the psychoanalytical movement, Wilhelm Stekel, and, finally, the role played by Sigmund Freud in the marginalizing process.
Wilhelm Stekel was a physician and first came to Freud for a short stint of analysis (eight sessions) for his sexual problems, including impotence and excessive masturbation. He soon became a close collaborator and in 1902 founded the weekly discussion group which later became the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, which included analysts such as Alfred Adler, Paul Federn, Otto Rank, amongst others. In 1910 Freud appointed Stekel and Adler co-editors of the first journal of psychoanalysis, the Zentralblatt. However, the disagreements and tensions between Stekel and Freud continued to grow and in 1912 Stekel officially withdrew from the Vienna Society. In 1938 Stekel fled from Germany to the UK, where he died in 1940.
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