The Unfindable by Hélène Deutsch. Clinical cases and self-analysis (1818-1830)

Used book in satisfactory condition considering its age

With this collection, made up of two "books", we see the forging and asserting of Helene Deutsch's clinical experience at the crossroads of classical psychiatric training acquired from the greatest (Wagner-Jauregg in Vienna and Kraepelin in Munich) and a passionate interest in psychoanalysis.

The first book contains eleven previously unpublished lectures that she gave from the beginning of her own analysis by Freud in 1918 until 1930.

The second is a restitution of the original form of The Psychoanalysis of Neuroses, published in 1930 and now “unobtainable”.

As an analysand, Helene Deutsch is the clinical case that, with that of her daughter Anna, forced Freud to review everything on the subject of femininity. As an analyst, she was ahead of Freud - her book published in 1930 is proof of this - since she demonstrated, from cases, what Freud would not mention until 1931: the intense attachment of the daughter to her mother, beyond hatred. This is what Marie-Christine Hamon reveals thanks to a truly analytical practice of texts.