The kleinian development

ISBN: 9780902965072

定价: 24.00

内容简介

WHY HISTORY?
Freud the monument of literature??? not really Freud the man;
and above all??? the Freud of this particular writer s - D.M. s -
imagination. This??? of course??? immediately presents itself as the
most futile purpose of all??? since D.M. never knew Freud.
Would it not be better for him to present his personal Melanie
Klein??? or himself?. Well??? the latter would not do because no
case could be made out for his being a key figure in psycho-
analytic history. Why not Melanie Klein then? Well??? for a
perfectly good reason: relative lack of documentation. Consider???
[ or instance??? what you would do if you wanted to write the
history of 13th Century manorial life; you would not necessarily
tetermine which was the biggest??? most powerful??? most success-
hi??? most beautiful or most anything-else manor??? to study its
nanorial roils. You would first determine which manorial
oils were the most completely preserved and select your manor
ccordingly. If this turned out to be the biggest??? richest??? etc.???
: would be only slightly wlde of coincidental. Similarly??? the
ocumcntation ???of Freud s scientific development is certainly
0t a function of his having been in every way superlative??? but
his having been a compulsive writer. You must consider:
venty-three volumes of some foul. hundred pages each; say
)out nine thousand pages in forty-odd years. That comes to a
~ok
of over two hundred pages every year; twent a
a pages each! In addition??? by his hand??? we hav~YtP~P~[~er~:
F/less??? the Project for a Scientific Psychology??? letters to
)raham???
and probably many more unpublished papers case
x~rts??? et% all guarded in the archives by the jealous dragon
~ Kurt Eissler. No??? tile most cogent reason for studying
[hi~ is that he has left us a documentation ofhls thought and
912
lerlence that is unparalleled.
3an we not??? then??? just forget that we are studying a man s
and Works and concentrate on tile material??? the data??? the
t.od??? the ideas? Suppose it were Newton; we would not??? in
zing the evolution of his work in mathematics??? optics??? etc.???
~ern ourselves with his rather mad theological ramblings
more than we would with his sexual life. Indeed??? we could
Ire :that aspect of Newton because his writings in theology
quite Separate from ltis works in mathematms and physics.
h Freud however??? as with the 13th Century manorial
.ct and fancy??? truth and distortion??? new experiences
5