Formulated Experiences

"Peter Rudnytsky has long been in the forefront of Ferenczi scholarship. By bringing Ferenczi together with Fromm, and through his compelling readings of Shakespeare and Milton, he opens new vistas on the history of psychoanalysis and shows what it means to be resolutely independent in theory and genuinely interdisciplinary in practice."-Franco Borgogno, Training and Supervising Analyst, Italian Psychoanalytic Society; author of The Girl Who Committed Hara-Kiri and Other Clinical and Historical Essays "Formulated Experiences brings Erich Fromm back to public awareness as well as to the attention of the psychoanalytic community. Peter Rudnytsky's excellent and original essays invite a new generation of readers to discover why Fromms social psychoanalysis is more urgently needed today than ever."-Rainer Funk, literary executor of Erich Fromm, author of Life Itself Is an Art: The Life and Work of Erich Fromm

Peter L. Rudnytsky is Professor of English at the University of Florida and Head of the Department of Academic and Professional Affairs of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Gainesville.

Introduction: "One Man Cannot Be the Same as Many": Glimpsing New Paradigms through Old Keyholes Part I: Discovering Fromm 1 Freud as Miltons God: Mapping the Patriarchal Cosmos of Psychoanalysis and Paradise Lost 2: The Indispensability of Erich Fromm: The Rehabilitation of a "Forgotten" Psychoanalyst 3: Freud, Ferenczi, Fromm: The Authoritarian Character as Magic Helper Part II Ferenczian Inflections 4: The Other Side of the Story: Severn on Ferenczi and Mutual Analysis 5: Trauma and Dissociation: Ferenczi between Freud and Severn 6: Groddecks Lessons Part III: Basic Faults 7: Othello and Macbeth: Complementary Borderline Pathologies at the Basic Fault 8: "I Am Not What I Am": Iago and Negative Transcendence 9: Did Freud Masturbate?: The Folly of lisabeth Roudinesco