The schism between freud and jung over schreber: Its implications for method and doctrine

The snares of seduction in life and in therapy, or what do young Jewish girls (Spielrein) seek in their Aryan heroes (Jung), and vice versa? – Part 2

“…Kerr (1993), following Carotenuto, also doubted the sexual nature of the Jung ÁSpielrein relationship; but he was wrong to claim that Spielrein had played an important role ''at the center of the squall of distrust that led to the break with Freud'' (p. 13), that the ''most important aspect of the Spielrein affair was the change it occasioned in [Jung's] relationship with Freud'' (p. 227), and that she ''had innocently played the decisive role in fomenting this change'' (p. 386). ''In such tendentious conclusions Kerr has clearly sacrificed scholarship to sensationalism'' (Lothane, 1996, p. 203;1997). The true state of affairs is depicted in the letters of Freud to Jung (Lothane, 1996(Lothane, , 1999) and Freud's letters to Spielrein after her marriage.…”

Freud's Struggle With Misogyny: Homosexuality and Guilt in the Dream of Irma's Injection

“…Shortly after this last letter to Ferenczi he writes to Jung, in December 1910, in relation to the writing of the Schreber monograph: "I am unable to judge its objective worth as was possible with earlier papers, because I have had to f ight off complexes within myself (Fliess)" (McGuire 1974, p. 380). 2 Lothane (1992Lothane ( , 1997 maintains that Freud's theory on the relation between homosexuality and paranoia as developed in the Schreber paper is at least in part a projection of his own homosexual conf licts as experienced in his relationships with Fliess, Adler, and Jung. In February 1908, Freud writes to Jung: "My one-time friend Fliess developed a dreadful case of paranoia after throwing off his affection for me, which was undoubtedly considerable.…”

Ethics in Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis

“…Shunning historical investigation, Freud altered Schreber's words, rearranged the chronology of events, disregarding the ethical principle that a patient's text, i.e. data, should not be altered, and imposed on it an interpretive formula he had developed jointly with Ferenczi in 1908 [25]: namely that paranoia is caused by homosexual desires. While clinically heuristic, this formula is neither universal nor adequate to explain the varieties of persecutory delusions, schizophrenia or homosexuality and does not apply to Paul Schreber: he expressed transsexual, not homosexual fantasies and engaged in cross-dressing, a feminine identification [26] Freud erroneously equated with homosexual desire without internal evidence in Schreber's text.…”