Contemporary Perspectives on Freud's Classic Cases

PSA - Fall 2006
Third Year Candidates
10:00 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.

Dr. Harvey Bezahler
Dr. Alina Rubinstein

In this ten-week course, we will focus on two of Freud’s case histories, Little Hans and the Wolf Man. We will share the excitement of discovery as we use these cases to explore the clinical origins of psychoanalytic understanding, to look at the unsolved puzzles, and to anticipate subsequent theory. The cases will be appreciated in the historical context in which Freud wrote them and also examined from a modern perspective, through commentary by later and contemporary analytic writers.

* = Available on P.E.P. and will not be provided to you by the Institute.

1. Glenn, J. "Notes on Psychoanalytic Concepts and Style in Freud’s Case Histories." In Freud and His Patients, Vol.II , Downstate Psychoanalytic Institute 25th Anniversary Series, ed. M. Kanzer and J. Glenn, Jason Aronson, New York and London, 1980, pp. 3 – 19.

2. Freud, S. "Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy ('Little Hans')," Standard Edition, X, 1909, pp. 3 - 55.

3. ------------ Ibid., pp. 56 – 100.

4. ------------ Ibid., pp.101 – 149.

5. Midgley, N. "Re-Reading “Little Hans”: Freud’s Case Study and the Question of Competing Paradigms in Psychoanalysis," Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2006, 54/2: pp. 537 – 559. (PEP)

6. Freud, S. "From the History of an Infantile Neurosis (the 'Wolf Man')," Standard Edition, XVII, [written 1914, first publ. 1918], pp. 3 – 47.

7. ------------ Ibid., pp. 48 – 88.

8. ------------ Ibid., pp. 89 – 122.

9. Mack Brunswick, R. "A Supplement to Freud’s 'History of an Infantile Neurosis' (1928). In The Wolf-Man by the Wolf-Man, ed. M. Gardiner, NY, Basic Books (paperback), 1971, pp. 263 – 307.

10. *Blum, H. "The Borderline Childhood of the Wolf Man," Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 22, 1974, pp. 721 – 742. (PEP)