I’d like to recommend a book that just dropped that addresses our continued capacity to ignore why the brilliant iconoclastic creator of psychoanalysis was compelled and pushed to give up the notion of developmental trauma—ie environmental causes of human suffering-and placed a literary tale (story of Oedipus) that suited his love for antiquities into the mix:
This book is a beautiful honest rapprochement between traumatologists and psychoanalysis.
The book will probably stay within the already sensitive to trauma crew but should be taught at every psychoanalytic institute in the world. It is the real history of our field-the gorgeous, the tragic, the misogynistic horror….all of it.
I’d like to recommend a book that just dropped that addresses our continued capacity to ignore why the brilliant iconoclastic creator of psychoanalysis was compelled and pushed to give up the notion of developmental trauma—ie environmental causes of human suffering-and placed a literary tale (story of Oedipus) that suited his love for antiquities into the mix:
https://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-Perspectives-Freuds-Seduction-Psychotherapy/dp/103255634X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=3FA5DIR7T28IG&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.iW1ZyQy24njdbMKLGiw9msE9DmX7nypYTM6qtiN-lBAqdHMWenMuzIq1ZLpWe1IIJSnnpJDc37sSYutR4gqyvGUoJzkbpwqjs81kLENrqHc-Zdw1B4aIivOJARIDBLDZHjAOxz_JtCKGu71XCHyCsOQoOa5xGkmD4PyeTOnQFpzdtFGNrA4n86FHWgJy3hVhW8f8eJS372HNLNJBLMMotw.Ch5wZSDWbbCwXBkmKgCl-shH71iWObu_YKGoB6-4zYY&dib_tag=se&keywords=warwick+middleton&qid=1728743832&sprefix=warwick+middleton+%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-1
This book is a beautiful honest rapprochement between traumatologists and psychoanalysis.
The book will probably stay within the already sensitive to trauma crew but should be taught at every psychoanalytic institute in the world. It is the real history of our field-the gorgeous, the tragic, the misogynistic horror….all of it.
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Oedipal films:
The Manchurian Candidate, Psycho, and The Furies...
The Ballad of Jack and Rose, written and directed by Rebecca Miller, starring Daniel Day-Lewis.