Harold P Blum
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4055229 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Harold P Blum |
| NOMBRES | Harold P |
| APELLIDO | Blum |
| FIRMA | BLUM H P |
| AFILIACIONES | 23 The Hemlocks Roslyn Estates, New York 11576 |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 72 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 287 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
“A Celia” de Ben Jonson et la psychanalyse du développement
Dans le poème de Ben Johnson ici analysé, la communication entre l'orateur et sa bien-aimée n'est pas seulement imaginaire, mais entièrement non verbale. Le poème s'écarte donc de la norme des relations sociales entre adultes. Cet article montre en quoi la popularité de ce poème s’explique par le rappel de ces modalités utilisées entre la mère et le bébé durant la période préverbale de la vie
Aging, Dying, and the Analytic Process
The panel discussion presented at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute's 1066th Scientific Meeting held on June 8, 2023, takes up aging and dying of an analyst and their impact on patients and on the nature of analytic process. Participants reflect on conflicts and challenges arising with more analysts and patients living to an advanced age, on the unregulated nature of analysts’ retirement, and on multilayered meanings of analysts’ …
Évolution de la pensée psychanalytique freudienne aux États-Unis au XX e siècle
Alors qu’à l’origine, la psychanalyse telle qu’écrite par Freud était considérée comme une écriture sacrée par ses adeptes, avec le temps, les perspectives se sont élargies et la théorie et la pratique ont évolué, de même que l’enseignement et les organisations psychanalytiques. L’influence des analystes européens, arrivés aux États-Unis dans les années 1930, a été particulièrement importante. Cet article est un bref aperçu des changements théori…
Evolution of Freudian psychoanalytic thought in the twentieth-century USA
This paper briefly reviews major theoretical and clinical changes in American psychoanalysis since its beginning in the early twentieth century. The immigration of European analysts in the 1930s and 40s was of major significance. Infant development research promoted a shift towards the importance of object relations, reducing the importance of the Oedipus complex. The increasing focus on narcissism and borderline personalities is discussed, as we…
Identité juive, antisémitisme et blasphème
Freud a souligné la question de l’antisémitisme comme une résistance majeure à la psychanalyse. Il craignait que la psychanalyse ne soit une science des Juifs, pour les Juifs et par les Juifs. L’auteur rappelle ici comment la stigmatisation d’une appartenance religieuse et culturelle peut s’étendre à des domaines qui lui sont étrangers. Cependant, les préjugés et les préférences personnelles s’infiltrent inévitablement dans les réponses contre-tr…
Developmental and dynamic dimensions of hate, rage, and violence
Hate may be regarded as a complex affective-cognitive emotion and attitude alloyed with aggression. Hate and aggression have both neurobiological and environmental determinants. Hate may be overt or covert, externalized or internalized, and/or somatized. Persistent recurrent painful and traumatic experiences generate and exacerbate hate and aggression. An amalgam of hate and love is evident in the ambivalence of all self and object relationships …
Leonard Shengold, M. D
Leonard Shengold, a highly esteemed psychoanalyst, died on 16 January 2020 at the age of 94. He was born to Jewish parents who had come to the United States from Minsk and Vilnius. He recalled, fro
Childhood trauma, unconscious conflict and developmental transformation
Trauma is the subject of increasing attention in contemporary psychoanalysis. Its complexities will be explored in a clinical case, emphasizing traumatic experience and unconscious conflict across developmental phases. The patient, a young adult white man began analysis complaining of anxiety and depression. Born to adolescent parents, he had experienced infantile stress and childhood traumatic illness. Needy, greedy, and dependent, he was gratif…
Reconstruction in the Present Two-person Psychoanalysis
Welcome to “Parent–Infant Disturbance
The initiator of the conference and (together with Sophie de Mijolla-Mellor) conference co-chair, Harold Blum, introduces the objectives of the interdisciplinary and psychoanalytic conference on “Parent–Infant Disturbance: Theory and Therapy.” In the epilogue, the author brings up the coincident Paris terrorist attack of November 13, 2015 – the first day of this two-day conference
A Psychoanalytic Odyssey
A Psychoanalytic Odyssey Harold P. Blum (bio) This essay about my professional life is necessarily highly subjective. I have selected and highlighted areas and issues of personal interest and preference. My own theoretical and clinical ideas have evolved over the years. In some areas, experience as well as my own critical reassessment resulted in changing my views of theory and clinical practice. In other areas, I integrated aspects of the newer …
Reconstructing Freud's prototype reconstructions
Although at age 75, Freud asserted “deep within me there continues to be the happy child of Freiberg” (Příbor), his statement may now be regarded as an idealized version of his infancy and early childhood, devoid of trauma and stress. His reconstructions of his first three years of life, reported in his letters of October 1897 to Wilhelm Fliess, are subject to their own reconstruction. He had just repudiated seduction trauma as an exclusive etiol…
A word from the symposium chair
Sociopolitical democratization, the rebirth of Sigmund Freud's legacy, and the revitalization of psychoanalysis in today's Czech Republic created the conditions for the symposium “Psychological Birth and Infant Development” to take place. The sponsors, faculty, and organizers are gratefully acknowledged, together with the citizens of the town of Příbor
Wolf Man
We are deeply indebted to Roy Schafer and Justine McCarthy Woods for their expert, comprehensive, contemporary interpretations of the original Rorschach test of the Wolf Man by Frederick Weil (1955
Introduction
Only three of the patients among Freud's psychoanalytic case histories were actually analyzed by Freud and the Wolf Man is the longest and most complex of the case histories. Only the Wolf Man (Ser
The psychological birth of art
The prehistoric art discovered in Eurasian caves, created from 37,000 to 12,000 years ago, has fascinated and perplexed historians and scientists. These caves were uninhabited, devoted to art, the first art galleries. A psychoanalytic interpretation of these extraordinary works, this paper addresses the motives of the Paleolithic artists, the meanings of their art, and the relationship of the art and the artists to the cave. While nonanalytic for…
Reflections on the Past as Prologue
M y tenure as the second editor of Journal of the American Psycho-analytic Association followed the remarkable twenty years of John Frosch’s founding editorship. With the support of his polymath associ-ate editor, Nathaniel Ross, and a distinguished editorial board, an outstanding journal was created at the forefront of psychoanalytic discourse. I had a tough act to follow. I will comment on my experience as editor, some changes in the jour-nal i…
Object relations in clinical psychoanalysis
Van Gogh’s Fantasies of Replacement
The replacement child, often given the name of the deceased, is prone to fantasies that he or she is the embodiment of the dead child. Vincent van Gogh was born one year to the day after a stillborn brother of the identical name, including the middle name, Willem. In the parish register van Gogh was given the same number twenty-nine as his predecessor brother. Van Gogh’s fantasies of death and rebirth, of being a double and a twin, contributed to…
Little Hans
Freud's “Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy” (1909) has stimulated interminable “reanalysis.” The case of Little Hans, an unprecedented experimental child analytic treatment, is reexamined in the light of newer theory and newly derestricted documents. The understanding of the complex overdetermination of Hans's phobia was not possible in the heroic age of psychoanalysis. Current analytic thought, as well as distance de-idealization vis-à…
Holocaust trauma reconstructed
The Models of Picasso's Rose Period
Time and history in psychoanalysis
(2006). Time and history in psychoanalysis. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 251-254
Trauma and depression
Biography, autobiography and history
(2005). Biography, autobiography and history. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 86, No. 1, pp. 155-158
The Prototype Of Preoedipal Reconstruction
Repression, transference and reconstruction
Whereas Peter Fonagy almost dismisses the importance of repression and the recovery of repressed and suppressed memory, the author believes that the analysis of repression retains importance in clinical psychoanalysis. Transference is a return of the repressed, with repressed memories embedded within a fundamental unconscious fantasy constellation. Moreover, transference is an essential, but not the only, route to the understanding and analysis o…
The Borderline Childhood of the Wolf Man
The Concept of Erotized Transference
The Concept of Erotized Transference Harold P. Blum, M.D. IN THIS PAPER, I WILL REVIEW the concept of erotized transference and will explore its pathogenesis, dynamics, and some recurrent problems of its analytic significance and treatment. Because the term erotized transference has been defined and used in such a variety of ways in recent years, an exploration of its pathogenesis, dynamics, and analytic significance seems appropriate. Freud (191…
The Position And Value Of Extratransference Interpretation
The role of extratransference interpretation in the theory of technique has been insufficiently defined and only tangentially discussed. Extratransference interpretation refers to interpretation that is relatively outside the analytic transference relationship. Although interpretive resolution of the transference neurosis is the central area of analytic work, transference is not the sole or whole focus of interpretation, or the only effective "mu…
The Forbidden Quest and the Analytic Ideal
As is evident in the history of civilization, in myths and dreams, and in Freud's self-analysis, insight has been both prohibited and heroically sought. Psychoanalytic insight into unconscious processes and contents involves a gradual transformation of inner interdictions and ideals through the tolerance of previously forbidden curiosity and knowledge. The analytic process depends upon relaxation of censorship and analysis of the motives and mode…
Tribute To John Frosch
Freud's writings on early female sexuality are reviewed in order to demonstrate which of his central assumptions are supported and which have been corrected by the direct observation of young children. The study of the emergence of core gender identity in little girls is a key to the modification of Freud's statements on the onset of and crucial factors in the development of femininity. Cognitive functions, learning experiences, and language are …
Separation-Individuation Theory and Attachment Theory
Separation-individuation and attachment theories are compared and assessed in the context of psychoanalytic developmental theory and their application to clinical work. As introduced by Margaret Mahler and John Bowlby, respectively, both theories were initially regarded as diverging from traditional views. Separation-individuation theory, though it has had to be corrected in important respects, and attachment theory, despite certain limitations, …
On the Concept and Consequences of the Primal Scene
The concept of the primal scene is in need of redefinition and clarification. The primal scene is not identical with its regressive transformations or later derivatives. Because of the different implications for normal development and for psychopathology, the primal scene as a universal fantasy should be differentiated from the primal scene as real experience. The effects of exposure to the primal scene are considered in relation to the developme…
On The conception and Development of the Transference Neurosis
The Concept of Termination and the Evolution of Psychoanalytic Thought
Termination is a post-Freud contribution to the psychoanalytic process, which is never complete. The concept is illuminated in its analytic history and development. A formal well-defined terminal phase led to a tripartite psychoanalytic process which derived from and contributed to advances in psychoanalytic theory and knowledge. The terminal phase is a valuable addition and conclusion, but may be invested with irrational expectation and analytic…
Some Current And Recurrent Problems Of Psychoanalytic Technique
Paranoia And Beating Fantasy
Psychoanalytic contributions to the theory of paranoia are reviewed. As a primary problem underlying paranoia, this paper emphasizes the importance of beating fantasy associated with a fragile personality structure rather than the theory of repressed homosexuality. Castration anxiety and homosexual conflict may precipitate paranoia, but all levels of psychosexual development and their corresponding danger situations contribute to the transformed …
The Role of Identification in the Resolution of Trauma
In studies on the consequences of trauma, identifications have too often been overlooked. Trauma is experienced as an assault and can lead to an automatic, unconscious identification with the aggressor. Trauma is associated with a constellation of identifications, including identification with the aggressor, with the victim, with the rescuer, and with the caregiver. Identifications are important for the recovery from and mastery of trauma
The Reconstruction of Reminiscence
The lifting of repression and of infantile amnesia was an original aim and goal of clinical psychoanalysis. Memory may be more or less reliable and authentic. However, it tends to be subjective, self-serving, and selective, and there are different memory modalities and systems. The recovery of repressed childhood memory has been largely subsumed under the analysis of unconscious conflict and fantasy. “Hysterics suffer mainly from reminiscences,” …
Countertransference and the Theory of Technique
Historical, clinical, and conceptual remarks are presented regarding countertransference and the theory of psychoanalytic technique, preliminary to and in the context of discussing the contributions to the panel, “countertransference in Theory and Practice” (Tyson, 1984; Loewald, 1984; Jacobs, 1984; Dewald, unpublished). In addition, special emphasis is given to problems of countertransference in training arid supervision which may be Prototypes …
Superego Formation, Adolescent Transformation, and the Adult Neurosis
The superego is heir to the Oedipus complex but has a much larger developmental legacy which includes preoedipal precursors and the influence of latency and adolescence. The superego continues to change in function and content throughout life, and radical transformation in adolescence may result in developmental discontinuity as well as core developmental continuity. A case is discussed in which adolescence was overlooked in previous analysis and…
The Irma Dream, Self-Analysis, and Self-Supervision
The Irma dream has special historical significance. Erikson and others have placed it in historical, social, and cultural context. The manifest dream was elaborated in terms of analytic surface with analysis of form and content, patterns and movement in time and space, etc. There are, however, limits to textual reinterpretations. Further psychobiographic consideration of the Irma dream highlights issues of transference, countertransference and th…
Seduction Trauma
Seduction trauma refers to a range of phenomena currently described under the rubric of child abuse. Freud elucidated the fantasy distortion and elaboration of traumatic experience and retained the importance of actual trauma. Psychic trauma is associated with the alteration of self and object representations and ensuing new identifications, e.g., with victim and aggressor. The “deferred action” of psychic trauma is an antiquated concept and psyc…
Freud, Fliess, and the Parenthood of Psychoanalysis
This paper focuses upon the roles of procreation, fatherhood, and identification with the fertile mother in Freud's creation of psychoanalysis. Fatherhood and motherhood, pregnancy and birth, children and siblings, figure prominently in Freud's self-analysis and in his relationship with his prototransference object, Wilhelm Fliess. Although Freud attributed his self-analytic interest and revived oedipal conflict to the death of his father, becomi…
Theories of the Self and Psychoanalytic Concepts
Object Inconstancy and Paranoid Conspiracy
Psychic Trauma and Traumatic Object Loss
Psychoanalysis began with the concept of psychic trauma, which was subsequently not clearly differentiated from traumatic object loss or from unconscious conflict and fantasy. Psychic trauma is investigated in relation to unconscious conflict, with and without concurrent object loss. The syndromes of PTSD, uncomplicated by object loss, of traumatic bereavement, and of relatively nontraumatic bereavement, though often interwoven and inseparable, a…
Clinical and Developmental Dimensions of Hate
Bridging concepts of aggression, affect, and attitude, hate emerges during the process of separation-individuation concurrent with ego development and persisting intrapsychic conflict and fantasy. Rage precedes hate developmentally, though later the two are amalgamated both developmentally and clinically. Hate is the negative pole of ambivalence and is a component of all self- and object representations and object relationships. When excessive an…
Freud and the Figure of Moses
Moses was a lifelong preoccupation of Freud, representing a double and idealized self and object. Freud identified with different aspects of Moses during different periods of development, from concrete hero to abstract ideal. He turned to Moses in the concluding phase of his relationship with Fliess and his self–analysis, and then at other times of crisis. The Moses recreated by Freud is important to the evolution of the concepts of the superego,…
A Psychoanalytic View of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Maternal Psychopathology and Nocturnal Enuresis
On The conception and Development of the Transference Neurosis
The Concept of Erotized Transference
The Concept of Erotized Transference Harold P. Blum, M.D. IN THIS PAPER, I WILL REVIEW the concept of erotized transference and will explore its pathogenesis, dynamics, and some recurrent problems of its analytic significance and treatment. Because the term erotized transference has been defined and used in such a variety of ways in recent years, an exploration of its pathogenesis, dynamics, and analytic significance seems appropriate. Freud (191…
The Borderline Childhood of the Wolf Man
Tribute To John Frosch
Freud's writings on early female sexuality are reviewed in order to demonstrate which of his central assumptions are supported and which have been corrected by the direct observation of young children. The study of the emergence of core gender identity in little girls is a key to the modification of Freud's statements on the onset of and crucial factors in the development of femininity. Cognitive functions, learning experiences, and language are …
Tribute To Nathaniel Ross
The Prototype Of Preoedipal Reconstruction
Psychoanalytic Study of An Unusual Perversion
The Psychology of Women
The Pathogenicity of the Primal Scene
On the Concept and Consequences of the Primal Scene
The concept of the primal scene is in need of redefinition and clarification. The primal scene is not identical with its regressive transformations or later derivatives. Because of the different implications for normal development and for psychopathology, the primal scene as a universal fantasy should be differentiated from the primal scene as real experience. The effects of exposure to the primal scene are considered in relation to the developme…
Paranoia And Beating Fantasy
Psychoanalytic contributions to the theory of paranoia are reviewed. As a primary problem underlying paranoia, this paper emphasizes the importance of beating fantasy associated with a fragile personality structure rather than the theory of repressed homosexuality. Castration anxiety and homosexual conflict may precipitate paranoia, but all levels of psychosexual development and their corresponding danger situations contribute to the transformed …
The Forbidden Quest and the Analytic Ideal
As is evident in the history of civilization, in myths and dreams, and in Freud's self-analysis, insight has been both prohibited and heroically sought. Psychoanalytic insight into unconscious processes and contents involves a gradual transformation of inner interdictions and ideals through the tolerance of previously forbidden curiosity and knowledge. The analytic process depends upon relaxation of censorship and analysis of the motives and mode…
Contemporary Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique
Some Current And Recurrent Problems Of Psychoanalytic Technique
Object Inconstancy and Paranoid Conspiracy
Theories of the Self and Psychoanalytic Concepts
The Position And Value Of Extratransference Interpretation
The role of extratransference interpretation in the theory of technique has been insufficiently defined and only tangentially discussed. Extratransference interpretation refers to interpretation that is relatively outside the analytic transference relationship. Although interpretive resolution of the transference neurosis is the central area of analytic work, transference is not the sole or whole focus of interpretation, or the only effective "mu…
Superego Formation, Adolescent Transformation, and the Adult Neurosis
The superego is heir to the Oedipus complex but has a much larger developmental legacy which includes preoedipal precursors and the influence of latency and adolescence. The superego continues to change in function and content throughout life, and radical transformation in adolescence may result in developmental discontinuity as well as core developmental continuity. A case is discussed in which adolescence was overlooked in previous analysis and…
Countertransference and the Theory of Technique
Historical, clinical, and conceptual remarks are presented regarding countertransference and the theory of psychoanalytic technique, preliminary to and in the context of discussing the contributions to the panel, “countertransference in Theory and Practice” (Tyson, 1984; Loewald, 1984; Jacobs, 1984; Dewald, unpublished). In addition, special emphasis is given to problems of countertransference in training arid supervision which may be Prototypes …
The Role of Identification in the Resolution of Trauma
In studies on the consequences of trauma, identifications have too often been overlooked. Trauma is experienced as an assault and can lead to an automatic, unconscious identification with the aggressor. Trauma is associated with a constellation of identifications, including identification with the aggressor, with the victim, with the rescuer, and with the caregiver. Identifications are important for the recovery from and mastery of trauma
The Concept of Termination and the Evolution of Psychoanalytic Thought
Termination is a post-Freud contribution to the psychoanalytic process, which is never complete. The concept is illuminated in its analytic history and development. A formal well-defined terminal phase led to a tripartite psychoanalytic process which derived from and contributed to advances in psychoanalytic theory and knowledge. The terminal phase is a valuable addition and conclusion, but may be invested with irrational expectation and analytic…
Freud, Fliess, and the Parenthood of Psychoanalysis
This paper focuses upon the roles of procreation, fatherhood, and identification with the fertile mother in Freud's creation of psychoanalysis. Fatherhood and motherhood, pregnancy and birth, children and siblings, figure prominently in Freud's self-analysis and in his relationship with his prototransference object, Wilhelm Fliess. Although Freud attributed his self-analytic interest and revived oedipal conflict to the death of his father, becomi…
Freud and the Figure of Moses
Moses was a lifelong preoccupation of Freud, representing a double and idealized self and object. Freud identified with different aspects of Moses during different periods of development, from concrete hero to abstract ideal. He turned to Moses in the concluding phase of his relationship with Fliess and his self–analysis, and then at other times of crisis. The Moses recreated by Freud is important to the evolution of the concepts of the superego,…
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