Formulated Experiences Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm

In Formulated Experiences, Peter L. Rudnytsky continues his quest for a "re-vision" of psychoanalysis by coupling his revival of the unjustly neglected figure of Erich Fromm with his latest groundbreaking research on Ferenczi and Groddeck. Committed at once to a humanistic and to a literary psychoanalysis, Rudnytsky explores the subjective roots of creativity and critiques the authoritarianism that has been a tragic aspect of Freud’s legacy.Through his clinically informed interpretations he brings out both "hidden realities" and "emergent meanings" of the texts and authors he examines, including Shakespeare’s Othello and Macbeth, as well as Milton’s Paradise Lost. A preeminent scholar of the history and theory of psychoanalysis, Rudnytsky displays an interdisciplinary expertise that makes Formulated Experiences truly sui generis and unlike any existing book. Bridging the artificial divide between the academic and clinical worlds, his eloquent championing of the interpersonal and relational traditions will captivate contemporary psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, while his insightful close readings provide a model for psychoanalytic literary critics.

Introduction:"One Man Cannot Be the Same as Many": Glimpsing New Paradigms through Old Keyholes PartI: Discovering Fromm1Freud as Milton’s 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 PartII 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: Groddeck’s 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 Élisabeth Roudinesco

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.