Jurgen Reeder - Hate and Love in Pyschoanalytical Institutions

Copyright 2004 Jurgen Reeder

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Reeder, Jurgen, 1947

Hate and love in psychoanalytical institutions : the dilemma of a profession / by Jurgen Reeder.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index.

ISBN 978-1-59051-065-0

1. PsychoanalysisPractice. 2. PsychoanalysisTraining of. 3. PsychoanalysisStudy and teaching. 4. Superego. 5. Love-hate relationships. I. Title.

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Friends and helpful colleagues are indispensable for anyone engaged in research and writing. During the period that this project developed, a number of people have afforded their reactions, suggestions, analyses, criticism, andnot in the leastmoral support. Had any of this been lacking, the book would surely be a weak shadow of what it has turned out to be. Therefore, gratitude is due.

Above all, I wish to thank the analysand I here call Eva, who has allowed me, in Chapter 2, to include a reconstruction of the dialogue taking place during one of our sessions.

Hate and Love in Psychoanalytical Institutions has been generated under the auspices of a Swedish research program entitled Transitions: Psychoanalytic Investigations into the Nature of Change. In that context, I have Irne Matthis, Andrzej Werbart, Sonja Levander, and Gunnar Karlsson to thank for their views and inspiration during recurrent seminars, which, through the years, have become evermore important.

I also wish to thank Ulla-Britt Parment, Christer Sjdin, and Arne Jemstedt, all of whom, during the last year of my work, have read the text in its entirety and given feedback of a kind that has been necessary for me to finish the project.

My special appreciation goes to Charlotte Skawonius, who with unrelenting precision was always ready to convey how the text might be received by a nonpsychoanalytic audience. Likewise, I wish to thank John Swedenmark, who expressed very valuable views on Part 2 of Chapter 2.

Professors Birgitta Qvarsell and Arvid Lfberg at the Department of Education, Stockholm University, have provided both the program and my personal project with an abode at the university. The Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences sponsored me to read, think, and write during the years 19951999. To all involved I wish to express my very deep gratitude for the confidence and generosity with which I have been received and supported.

I also wish to express my deeply felt gratitude to all those who have produced the evolving versions of The PEP Archive on CD-ROM, including more than 30,000 psychoanalytic articles from the six most prominent analytic publications in English, from their inception until 1998. Without access to the encyclopedic range of knowledge engraved on this little compact disk I would have produced a meager tome indeed.

During the course of my writing this book, preparatory work and work in progress have been published as articles in the Swedish journal Divan (Reeder 1998b, 1999), the first of which also appeared in English translation in the International Forum of Psychoanalysis (Reeder 1998c) and the second in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis (Reeder 2002). In addition, two texts have been published in the internal Bulletin of the Swedish Psychoanalytic Association (Reeder 1998a, d). More or less modified, all these writings have been integrated into the final report. I should also mention that central aspects of Part 1 of Chapter 2 have previously appeared in Reeder 1996. I thank all the respective publishers for allowing me to include these texts in this book.

Finally, I wish to express my very sincere gratitude to Judy Cohen, who with the utmost care and sagacity has copyedited my translation during the first stages of production. Her assistance has definitely made my book a considerably more pleasant reading experience than it would have been otherwise.

Tomelilla, Sweden, March 1, 2004