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Mother-Infant Work and Its Impact on Psychoanalysis with Adults. By , pp. 3-13.
Drawing on his work with mother-infant psychoanalytic treatment, the author reflects on the ways in which these experiences have influenced his work with older patients. Babies flood the analyst with nonverbal expressions of their feeling states. In working with a mother who is soothing her baby, the analyst can observe container-contained interactions from another perspective than that utilized in a classical psychoanalytic setting.
Work with a two-week-old boy and his mother is presented as an example, as well as the treatment of a 35-year-old woman. The baby-mother work inspired the adult analysis, the quality of which gradually shifted from “battlefield” to “playground.”
Freud's Philosophical Path: From a Science of Mind to a Philosophy of Human Being. By , pp. 32-43.
Despite his early interest, Freud explicitly rejected philosophy because of its allegedly speculative character. He struggled to balance the intellectual appeal of philosophy with the certainty he hoped to find in positivist science.
Putting aside the scientific status of Freud's work, the author reexamines Freud's attitude toward philosophy. In failing to recognize the assumptions made in his investigations, Freud separated psychoanalysis