Constructing Ernest Jones
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8970875 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fred L Griffin (0000-0001-8868-8900, 4100 Spring Valley Road, Suite 511Dallas, TX 75244USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1169-1180 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2009.00208.x |
| OpenAlex | W1597949936 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1. Maddox indicates that letters from Jones’s archive at the Institute of Psychoanalysis “are dramatic testimony to the powerful effect that Jones had on many women ... In 1919 one of his smitten analysands, later his colleague, Joan Riviere, accused Jones of knowing that he was ‘irresistible to women’” (p. 4). Apparently, Jones’s appeal reaches beyond the grave. For Maddox’s closing sentence in the Introduction reads: “I must confess that, as a biographer, I have found him captivating” (p. 4).2. In writing about psychoanalytic subjects, I have often found that – without conscious intention – associations to imaginative literature emerge, creating links (‘conversations’) among clinical experience, psychoanalytic writings, and these works of fiction. This associative and synthetic process may, in turn, enhance my sensibility and expand my capacity to grapple with a subject that is just beyond my reach (Griffin, 2004, 2005).3. Yet another allusion here is to a book that Jones (1931b), an avowed ice‐skater, wrote, The Elements of Figure Skating: “It combines and surpasses the joys of flying and dancing; only in a certain type of dream do we ever else attain a higher degree of the same ravishing experience &” (Maddox, p. 205). In this book, he provided a lesson in “the art of falling”, in which, Maddox tells us, the “place to learn was the bedroom ‘with an ample supple of cushions and eiderdowns’&‘to learn to slither is really the art of falling on the ice’ ” (p. 206). It appears that Jones had always to be prepared to fall from the heights of his “grandiloquent hopes and fantasies” (Jones, 1959, p. 11).4. Speaking to Jones’s effort to write the biography of Freud, the last chapter in Freud ’s Wizard is aptly entitled ‘A Life for a Life’
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Dream · Literature · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sensibility · Style (visual arts · Subject (documents · Wonder · American Literature and Culture · Computer Science · Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2020 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |