A Letter to Hans Loewald

Response to Jacques André’s ‘Laura – or the sexual borders of need’

“…Unfortunately, his work is virtually unknown in France and England. I have found that his writings can act as mediation between Freud and other theorists (Simpson, 2007). In reading the clinical material by Jacques André, which he uses to exemplify theoretical similarities and differences between Winnicott and Laplanche, I thought of Loewald’s work as a kind of mediation between Winnicott and Laplanche as André has interpreted them.…”

A Different Universe: Reading Loewald through “On the Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis”

“…This quiet conversation-of many writers in internal conversation with themselves, as well as with Loewald and those who have written about him-indirectly addresses and extends some of Cooper's puzzlements. It has worked to articulate and expand Loewald's clinical and theoretical legacy-to capture the different universe that was Loewald's (see Balsam 1997;Bass 2000;Chodorow 1999Chodorow , 2003bChodorow , 2004aChodorow , 2007Fogel 1991;Friedman 1991;Kaywin 1993;Lear 1990Lear , 1996Lear , 2003Leavy 1989;Miller 2008;Mitchell 1998Mitchell , 2000Nields 2003;Ogden 2006;Schafer 1991;Simpson 2007;Teicholz 2001;White 1996;Whitebook 2004Whitebook , 2008.…”