{"id":46539,"date":"2016-10-21T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T00:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=46539"},"modified":"2020-07-04T15:54:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T15:54:33","slug":"my-own-private-wikipedia-freud-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/my-own-private-wikipedia-freud-1\/","title":{"rendered":"my own private wikipedia: freud (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Beste Emma,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Je bent een anekdote in het leven van anderen, Freud, Fliess en Masson, en dus gaat ongeveer je hele lemma op wikipedia over theorie\u00ebn en praktijken en ruzies van anderen. In mijn priv\u00e9wikipedia schrijft Eduardo Galeano jouw lemma. Zie hoe hij schrijft over Nellie Bly. Je kan er wel om lachen, denk ik.<\/em> <!--- al word ik er ongemakkelijk van omdat wikipedia hier iets spiegelt waar ik niet aan wil maar niet omheen kan. Maar ja, hoe en waar begin je bij het onderzoeken van je ongemak? Met een wens? Met humor? ---><\/p>\n<p>The Mother of Female Journalists<br \/>(November 14)<\/p>\n<p>On this morning in 1889, Nellie Bly set off.<\/p>\n<p>Jules Verne did not believe that this pretty little woman could circle the globe by herself in less than eighty days.<\/p>\n<p>But Nellie put her arms around the world in seventy-two, all the while publishing article after article about what she heard and observed.<\/p>\n<p>This was not the young reporter\u2019s first exploit, nor would it be the last.<\/p>\n<p>To write about Mexico, she became so Mexican that the startled government of Mexico deported her.<\/p>\n<p>To write about factories, she worked the assembly line.<\/p>\n<p>To write about prisons, she got herself arrested for robbery.<\/p>\n<p>To write about mental asylums, she feigned insanity so well that the doctors declared her certifiable. Then she went on to denounce the psychiatric treatments she endured, as reason enough for anyone to go crazy.<\/p>\n<p>In Pittsburgh when Nellie was twenty, journalism was a man\u2019s thing.<\/p>\n<p>That was when she committed the insolence of publishing her first articles.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty years later, she published her last, dodging bullets on the front lines of World War I.<\/p>\n<p><!--- mvz ---><\/p>\n<p><!--- Analysis\nWhen she was 27, she went to Freud, seeking treatment for vague symptoms including stomach ailments and slight depression related to menstruation. Freud diagnosed Eckstein as suffering from hysteria and believed that she masturbated to excess; masturbation in those days was considered dangerous to mental health. Her 'treatment lasted something in the region of three years \u2013 one of the most protracted and detailed of Freud's early cases'.\nIn her analysis, Emma Eckstein 'supplied Freud with the material that would allow him to theorize hysteric symptomology...taught Freud about \"the no-man's land between fantasy and memory, resonating with sadistic acts and fantasies of a former historical epoch\"' Her 'eager collaboration in her analysis gave Freud much precious material...contributed substantial changes and fundamental new elements to his theories: the wish theory of psychosis and dream; the transferential reconstruction of her early pleasures...fantastic scenes from her inner life'. In particular, Freud's theory of deferred action owed much to 'Emma Eckstein's twinned scenes in shops...\"Now this case is typical of repression in hysteria. We invariably find that a memory has been repressed which has only become a trauma through deferred action\"'.---><\/p>\n<p><!--- Surgery\nFreud suspected, in addition to hysteria, a \"nasal reflex neurosis\", a condition popularized by his friend and collaborator Wilhelm Fliess, an ear, nose, and throat specialist. Fliess had been treating \"nasal reflex neurosis\" by cauterizing the inside of the nose under local anesthesia with cocaine used as the anesthetic. Fliess found that the treatment yielded positive results, in that his patients became less depressed. Fliess conjectured that if temporary cauterization was temporarily useful, perhaps surgery would yield more permanent results. He began operating on the noses of patients he diagnosed with the disorder, including Eckstein and even Freud himself.\nEckstein's surgery was a disaster. She suffered from terrible infections for some time, and profuse bleeding. Freud called in a specialist, his old school friend, Dr Ignaz Rosanes, who removed a mass of surgical gauze that Fliess had not removed. Eckstein's nasal passages were so damaged that she was left permanently disfigured. Freud initially attributed this damage to the surgery, but later, as an attempt to reassure his friend that he shouldn't blame himself, Freud reiterated his belief that the initial nasal symptoms had been due to hysteria.\nGuilt over the episode has been identified as contributing to the dream of Irma's injection in The Interpretation of Dreams: 'Max Schur grasped right away the significance of the episode to the \"Irma\" dream...in his paper on the specimen dream'.---><\/p>\n<p><!--- Seduction theory\nEckstein is also associated with Freud's seduction theory. In 1897, Freud cites her analytic findings to Fliess as support for his 'so-called seduction theory, the claim that all neuroses are the consequences of an adult's, usually a father's, sexual abuse of a child'. Freud wrote that 'Eckstein deliberately treated her patient in such a manner as not to give her the slightest hint of what would emerge from the unconscious and in the process obtained from her...the identical scenes with the father'.\nJeffrey Masson in his assault on Freud's abandonment of the seduction theory makes much of Eckstein's role, linking Freud's \"abandonment\" of her position with respect to the Fliess surgery to his \"abandonment\" of her evidence for the paternal etiology of neurosis: for 'the idea \u2013 which even Masson concedes is crazy \u2013 that...all neurotic patients had been sexually abused'.\nYet while few (since Schur) would dissent that in regard to the failed surgery 'Freud's evasiveness is blatant....Freud was eager to protect Fliess from the obvious charge of careless, almost fatal malpractice', there is at the same time much to suggest that 'as far as the seduction theory is concerned, Eckstein is a red herring...no more relevant than Freud's other patients. The fact that Masson lavishes so much attention on her...[is because] Emma Eckstein is for him a woman whom Freud and Fliess abused. She is thus the prototypical psychoanalytic victim...this symbolic function'. ---><\/p>\n<p><!--- <em>The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are.<\/em> <small>\u2013 Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby<\/small> ---><\/p>\n<p><!--- <strong>Analysis<\/strong>\nWhen she was 27, she went to Freud, seeking treatment for vague symptoms including stomach ailments and slight depression related to menstruation. Freud diagnosed Eckstein as suffering from hysteria and believed that she masturbated to excess; masturbation in those days was considered dangerous to mental health. Her 'treatment lasted something in the region of three years \u2013 one of the most protracted and detailed of Freud's early cases'.[6]\nIn her analysis, Emma Eckstein 'supplied Freud with the material that would allow him to theorize hysteric symptomology...taught Freud about \"the no-man's land between fantasy and memory, resonating with sadistic acts and fantasies of a former historical epoch\"'[10] Her 'eager collaboration in her analysis gave Freud much precious material...contributed substantial changes and fundamental new elements to his theories: the wish theory of psychosis and dream; the transferential reconstruction of her early pleasures...fantastic scenes from her inner life'.[11] In particular, Freud's theory of deferred action owed much to 'Emma Eckstein's twinned scenes in shops...\"Now this case is typical of repression in hysteria. We invariably find that a memory has been repressed which has only become a trauma through deferred action\"'.\n\n<strong>Surgery<\/strong>\nFreud suspected, in addition to hysteria, a \"nasal reflex neurosis\", a condition popularized by his friend and collaborator Wilhelm Fliess, an ear, nose, and throat specialist. Fliess had been treating \"nasal reflex neurosis\" by cauterizing the inside of the nose under local anesthesia with cocaine used as the anesthetic. Fliess found that the treatment yielded positive results, in that his patients became less depressed. Fliess conjectured that if temporary cauterization was temporarily useful, perhaps surgery would yield more permanent results. He began operating on the noses of patients he diagnosed with the disorder, including Eckstein and even Freud himself.\nEckstein's surgery was a disaster. She suffered from terrible infections for some time, and profuse bleeding. Freud called in a specialist, his old school friend, Dr Ignaz Rosanes,[13] who removed a mass of surgical gauze that Fliess had not removed. Eckstein's nasal passages were so damaged that she was left permanently disfigured. Freud initially attributed this damage to the surgery, but later, as an attempt to reassure his friend that he shouldn't blame himself, Freud reiterated his belief that the initial nasal symptoms had been due to hysteria.\nGuilt over the episode has been identified as contributing to the dream of Irma's injection in The Interpretation of Dreams: 'Max Schur grasped right away the significance of the episode to the \"Irma\" dream...in his paper on the specimen dream'.\n\n<strong>seduction theory<\/strong>\nEckstein is also associated with Freud's seduction theory. In 1897, Freud cites her analytic findings to Fliess as support for his 'so-called seduction theory, the claim that all neuroses are the consequences of an adult's, usually a father's, sexual abuse of a child'.[15] Freud wrote that 'Eckstein deliberately treated her patient in such a manner as not to give her the slightest hint of what would emerge from the unconscious and in the process obtained from her...the identical scenes with the father'.[16]\nJeffrey Masson in his assault on Freud's abandonment of the seduction theory makes much of Eckstein's role, linking Freud's \"abandonment\" of her position with respect to the Fliess surgery to his \"abandonment\" of her evidence for the paternal etiology of neurosis: for 'the idea \u2013 which even Masson concedes is crazy \u2013 that...all neurotic patients had been sexually abused'.[17]\nYet while few (since Schur) would dissent that in regard to the failed surgery 'Freud's evasiveness is blatant....Freud was eager to protect Fliess from the obvious charge of careless, almost fatal malpractice',[18] there is at the same time much to suggest that 'as far as the seduction theory is concerned, Eckstein is a red herring...no more relevant than Freud's other patients. The fact that Masson lavishes so much attention on her...[is because] Emma Eckstein is for him a woman whom Freud and Fliess abused. She is thus the prototypical psychoanalytic victim...this symbolic function'.[19] ---><\/p>\n\n\n<p><small>stem: imhd <br>\nperspectief: bij het lezen van In the Freud archives van Janet Malcolm<br>\ntitel: my own private wikipedia<br>\nbron: irma, elke dag een bericht (2016)<br>mopw: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/category\/meerstemmig-wikipedia\/\">meerstemmige encyclopedie<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/category\/mopw-freud\/\">freud<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beste Emma, Je bent een anekdote in het leven van anderen, Freud, Fliess en Masson, en dus gaat ongeveer je hele lemma op wikipedia over theorie\u00ebn en praktijken en ruzies van anderen. In mijn priv\u00e9wikipedia schrijft Eduardo Galeano jouw lemma. Zie hoe hij schrijft over Nellie Bly. Je kan er wel om lachen, denk ik.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/my-own-private-wikipedia-freud-1\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2007,3858,974],"tags":[3828,3829,3830,1175,2487,416,1149,2044],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46539"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63784,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46539\/revisions\/63784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}