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My Thanks to Freud: Open Letter to Professor Sigmund Freud on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday
Mein Dank an Freud: Offener Brief an Professor Sigm. Freud zu seinem 75. Geburtstag
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An open letter written for Freud’s seventy-fifth birthday on 6 May 1931, in which Andreas-Salomé reviews psychoanalysis as she had come to know it: Freud’s self-analysis as its starting point, the analytic situation and transference, narcissism as a bond with the whole that is more than self-love, the infantile phases of sexuality and the Oedipus complex, and sublimation. She accepts Freud’s dualism of the drives but doubts that aggression and the death drive are autonomous. Freud replied that it was the finest thing of hers he had read.
- Published
- 1931
- In
- Wien: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag
- Language
- German