Main description:

Revisits the birth of psychoanalysis from the perspective of trauma.
Considers the roles of both Freud and Ferenczi.
Revisits some of Freud's most famous cases including the Wolf Man and his involvement with Emma Eckstein.

Contents:

List of figures

Preface by Philippe Refabert

Introduction

PART I

The woman, a castrated man

The voice of Ferenczi

Hatred of the woman and veneration of man

"Dark continent"
PART II

The code

Amyl, trimethylamin = Brit milah

The great Lord Penis

The blood bride

The tomb
PART III

Transmission

A gap as heredity

Catasthrophe
PART IV

Closing of the circle

Giant snakes and dragons that still live

Gaps and substitutes

The nose as a fetish

Postface by Philippe Refabert

References