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Freud, his illness, and ourselves.
Am J Psychoanal. 2008 Jun;68(2):103-16
Authors: Haynal A
The history of Freud's illness shows that he tried to avoid confrontation with it, and to treat it as unimportant. In his personal letters, the ill body remains outside-as another person, "Konrad," not he himself-and it is not taken into account. Particularly in Freud's correspondence with Ferenczi, we realize to what extent certain phenomena, especially depressive ones, he considered somatic, with a tendency to dismiss them, and this despite important occasional insights, such as about the role played by hate in psychosomatic illnesses. In the post-Freudian development, these topics have been more and more integrated in the dialogue, in the discourse between the analyst and the analysand.The American Journal of Psychoanalysis (2008) 68, 103-116. doi:10.1057/ajp.2008.2.
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