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...thought about that peculiar young man--psychoanalysis has been receding from, the public eye. After these years of gestalt therapy, est, and, yes, hot tubs (who can really believe that a neighborhood of fools sitting in a tub of scalding water is therapy?), it seems right to return to Freud. After all, it was he who maintained from the start that the best that could be hoped for was the conversion of "hysterical misery into common unhappiness...
When he coined the term transference, Freud meant the process by which we define others, the way we seem them according to "early blueprints" from out first six years. Only in rare moments do we ever see each other as we are. The rest of the time, we perceive only the shadows cast by psychic scars unknown at the conscious level. Malcolm writes...
...jumping into the fray," then Malcolm gives a solid boost to anyone who wants to be a meta-voyeur--someone to peep in on the bedroom and the first voyeur too. She falters only once, rambling through several pages of some sort of amateur Jungian explanation of Freud's motivations for giving a particular patient pseudonym. Except for this humorously obsessional bit of lay analysis, Malcolm has an intelligent authorial presence. Drawing from an obviously broad reading, within and without the field of psychoanalysis, her allusions are perceptive and occasionally brilliant. She never degenerates into literary gushing...
...frag ment of autobiography. Born in 1905 in a Danube port city in Bulgaria, Canetti claims that his Turkish-raised grandfather boasted of knowing 17 languages. After his fa ther died in Manchester, England, Canetti zigzagged between the Zu rich of Dada, Lenin and Joyce, and the Vienna of Freud, finally earning a Ph.D. in chemistry. But the young doctor chose literature instead of laboratories. Auto-da-Fé (1935), published on the eve of Hitler's Anschluss, initiated the theme that would obsess Canetti over four decades: how to pay close attention to the world...
...field that has frequently equated money with excrement, the subject of fees is provocative. Malcolm notes that Freud established the concept of paying by the hour and holding the patient financially responsible for missed sessions. "Nothing," he wrote, "brings home to one so strongly the significance of the psychogenic factor in the daily life of men, the frequency of malingering, and the nonexistence of chance as a few years' practice of psychoanalysis on the strict principle of leasing by the hour." Green tells of one patient so obsessed with his bill that the doctor did not get paid...