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Herbert Rosenfeld – Then and Now: The Significance of His Work for Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Editor : Karin Johanna Zienert-Eilts, Editor : Wolfgang Hegener

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Acknowledgements

About the editors and contributors

Preface to the German edition
Irma Brenman Pick

Preface to the English edition
John Steiner

Introduction

Part I
Historical perspectives: biographical, conceptual-historical, and clinical-theoretical roots

1. On the biography of Herbert Rosenfeld
Karin J. Zienert-Eilts

2. My father Herbert Rosenfeld: a personal view on his life
Angela Rosenfeld

3. Herbert Rosenfeld and the distinction between “defensive” and “destructive” narcissism
Ronald Britton

4. Melanie Klein’s “inner Hitler” and Herbert Rosenfeld’s “Mafia”: on figures of thought [Denk-Figuren] in transference and countertransference
Claudia Frank

Part II
Supervision with Herbert Rosenfeld in Europe: Italy, Germany, and France

5. Herbert Rosenfeld’s contributions to psychoanalysis in light of his supervisions in Italy
Riccardo Steiner

6. Herbert Rosenfeld’s significance for German psychoanalysts
Klaus Wilde

7. Supervision with Herbert Rosenfeld: reminiscences and afterthoughts
Angela Goyena

Part III
On the clinical significance of Herbert Rosenfeld: implications and further developments

8. Herbert Rosenfeld and the therapy of psychoses: a complex course
Franco de Masi

9. Adhesive transference – “The almost physical type of connection with the patient”: Herbert Rosenfeld’s pioneering understanding of primitive mental organisations and their transformations
Hans-Jürgen Eilts

10. A tale of a scorpion and a frog: clinical considerations and social dynamics of destructive narcissism
Carolin Haas and Nils F. Töpfer

Part IV
Socio-political applications of Herbert Rosenfeld’s concept of destructive narcissism

11. Applying my theory of psychosis to the Nazi phenomenon
Herbert Rosenfeld

12. Herbert Rosenfeld’s transposition of the individual into the collective: critical spurs to further thinking
Interview with Hermann Beland

13. How Herbert Rosenfeld can help us to understand Nazi perpetrators: the example of Adolf Eichmann
Wolfgang Hegener

14. Destructive narcissism and the susceptibility to “perverted containing” using the example of destructive populism: further psychoanalytical considerations
Karin J. Zienert-Eilts

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Appendix
Index