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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Freud and his mentors: The clinical construction of hysteria, 1885-1905 Abstract: This investigation evaluated the systematic relationship between Freud's psychological mentors and the origins of the psychoanalytic construction of hysteria. A revisionist thesis examined the mediating, socio-psychological and political impact of three mentors, Jean-Martin Charcot, Josef Breuer and Wilhelm Fliess on how Freud arrived at his theoretical maturity. Separate chapters evaluated the patronal and psychological influence of each mentor, situating Freud's status as an assimilating, bourgeois Jewish doctor against the backdrop of a psychoanalytically-informed reading of how each mentor influenced Freud's views and treatment of hysteria. This reconstruction drew on a multiplicity of psychoanalytic perspectives, both classical and object relational and implicated Freud's tortuously ambivalent relationship to women, specifically his own eastern European, Jewish mother in the explanatory equation. A consistent psychological pattern emerged, where young Freud idealized, emulated, absorbed a great deal from all three mentors, only to fall into disharmony and recriminations, leading to the ultimate dissolution of heretofore venerated relationships. He lionized the Napoleonic Charcot, allowing himself to be pointed towards the new frontier of nervous disorders, but ultimately precipitated a disruption in a heretofore mutually beneficial patron-client connection. While Breuer helped solidify Freud's professional entree into haute bourgeois Jewish Vienna, rendering assistance in numerous ways, financial, collegial, theoretical and collaborative, Freud bypassed his mentor's magnanimity and seemed to be driven by unconscious envy and ingratitude. An extensive analysis is provided of the 'dream of Irma's injection,' one which detailed Freud's core neurosis in which colleagues like Breuer were devalued, while new ones like Wilhelm Fliess were once again idealized. In Fliess, Freud's most intimate and conflict ridden collaboration, the initial sense of finding his 'other,' a brilliant peer whom he elevated to a revered, almost mythic status and on whom he pinned his greatest personal and professional aspirations, once again fell victim to envy and ingratitude, leading to a disastrous falling out. Lastly, the implications of a revisionist view of Freud and the hysteria discourse are touched on in relationship to the theoretical and clinical misogyny involved in the treatment of Dora. |
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