A Tale of Two Terms

The introduction situates this book’s contribution to the field of literary, theoretical, and cultural studies of masochism. The introduction contextualizes previous critical and historical methodologies by examining case studies by sexologists including Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Havelock Ellis, Albert Eulenburg, and Magnus Hirschfeld; psychoanalytical approaches to masochism from Sigmund Freud, Marie Bonaparte, Jessica Benjamin, and Juliet Mitchell; more modern theoretical texts including works by Gilles Deleuze, Anita Phillips, Slavoj Žižek; and specifically intersectional approaches that consider queerness and gender by Leo Bersani, Paula Caplan, Jack Halberstam, and Amber Jamilla Musser. This chapter sets up the core conflict at the center of Ordinary Masochisms: a pseudo-scientific, roundly negative consideration of masochism countered by a collection of unexpected, active, and empowering literary representations of masochism.

Algumas questões sobre a adoção na vida e obra de Marie Bonaparte

Nosso objetivo é demonstrar como a ossatura do conceito mãe morta na obra bonaparteana serve de fundamento teórico para se pensar a clínica da adoção. Essa inferência só é possível porque, a posteriori, a autora reconhece na moribunda Mimau, sua babá, uma mãe adotiva. Este trabalho analisa a maneira através da qual é decifrado o enigma intelectual do morrer (orfandade) e descoberto o segredo da mensagem (sexual) do outro (substituto materno). Em suma, nossos resultados apontam que a autora faz equivaler amor e morte entre os mecanismos do inconsciente na clínica da adoção, pois a “mãe morta” é o que se dá a pensar, e, da parte da mãe adotiva, é o que se deixa a desejar via enigma do sexual.

SOBRE A ELABORAÇÃO DA OBRA LITERÁRIA

Por meio da análise de alguns contos e com base na psicobiografia de Poe, aquela realizada pela psicanalista francesa Marie Bonaparte, constatamos que os mecanismos que presidem à elaboração da obra literária do artista são semelhantes aos mecanismos do sonho. Assim, a criação literária de Poe revela sob o modo fictício a satisfação dos seus desejos infantis, arcaicos e inconscientes. Essa trajetória abre caminho para se pensar tanto no reconhecimento da presença da obra de Edgar Poe no painel das literaturas estrangeiras no Brasil, como também circunscrever a sua psicobiografia como um estudo que demonstra que as obras literárias dos homens revelam sua psicologia mais íntima e a sua própria maneira se insere dentre as mais importantes pesquisas já realizadas sobre o poeta americano. Palavras-chave: Criação; Edgar Poe; Literatura; Tradução.

EDGAR ALLAN POE: UM POETA AUTOSSIMBÓLICO.

Por meio da análise de trechos de alguns contos e do exame da psicobiografia de Poe, aquela realizada pela psicanalista francesa Marie Bonaparte, constatar-se-á que os mecanismos que presidem a transformação dos pensamentos do poeta americano em imagens são semelhantes aos mecanismos de formação dos sonhos. Assim, a criação literária de Poe revela sob o modo fictício a satisfação dos seus desejos infantis, arcaicos e inconscientes. Essa trajetória abre caminho para se pensar tanto no caráter imagético dos seus textos ficcionais como também circunscreve a sua psicobiografia como um estudo que abre caminho para se pensar o estatuto do inconsciente no transvasamento do conteúdo de um pensamento em imagens visuais no trabalho de elaboração literária.

Freud under the Acropolis: The challenging journey of psychoanalysis in 20th-century Greece (1915–1995)

Psychoanalysis was introduced to Greece in 1915 by the progressive educator Manolis Triantafyllidis and was further elaborated by Marie Bonaparte, Freud’s friend and member of the Greek royal family, and her psychoanalytic group in the aftermath of the Second World War. However, the accumulated traumas of the Nazi occupation (1941–1944), the Greek Civil War (1946–1949), the post-Civil-War tension between the Left and the Right, the military junta (1967–1974) and the social and political conditions of post-war Greece led this project and all attempts to establish psychoanalysis in Greece, to failure and dissolution. The restoration of democracy in 1974 and the rapid social changes it brought was a turning point in the history of Greek psychoanalysis: numerous psychoanalysts, who had trained abroad and returned after the fall of the dictatorship, were hired in the newly established Greek National Health Service (NHS), and contributed to the reform of Greek psychiatry by offering the option of psychoanalytic psychotherapy to the non-privileged. This article draws on a range of unexplored primary sources and oral history interview material, in order to provide the first systematic historical account in the English language of the complex relationship between psychoanalysis and Greek society, and the contribution of psychoanalytic psychotherapy to the creation of the Greek welfare state. In so doing, it not only attempts to fill a lacuna in the history of contemporary Greece, but also contributes to the broader historiography of psychotherapy and of Europe.

Angelos Katakouzenos (1902–1982): A Lifework of Neurology and Art

Angelos Katakouzenos, a Greek neurologist and prolific medical writer at the beginning of the 20th century, belonged to a group of artists and scholars that formed the “generation of the 30s,” a cultural movement that emerged after World War I and introduced modernism in Greek art and literature. Born in 1902, Katakouzenos studied medicine in France at the Universities of Montpellier and Paris, where he trained in neurology and ­psychiatry under Georges Guillain, Henri Claude, Jean-Athanase Sicard, Pierre Marie, Clovis Vincent and Théophile ­Alajouanine. In Paris, he attended to Freud’s patients, collaborating with the psychoanalyst Marie Bonaparte, while he was introduced to the contemporary avant-garde movements of this time, developing long-lasting friendships with artists and intellectuals, including Marc Chagall and Tériade. Although Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of ­Paris, Commandeur of the Légion d’honneur and founder of the first neuropsychiatric clinics in Greece, Katakouzenos lived far from the limelight. Despite his numerous publications, his scientific work remained largely unacknowledged. Yet, as a ­psychoanalyst he gained international fame and treated patients including William Faulkner who later would write, “To the wise scientist, the in-depth judge of the human soul, my friend Dr. Katakouzenos, who has helped me like no one else to redeem myself from the tortuous questions that troubled me for years – from the depths of my heart, many, very many thanks”. In this paper, the rediscovery of Katakouzenos’s remarkable work in the field of neuroscience aims to tell the story of a great physician whose lifework in bridging art and science may, in retrospect, reinstate him as one of the most captivating neurologists of the 20th century.