Ferenczi's Confusion of Tongues Theory of Trauma

A Relational Neurobiological Perspective

Arnold Wm. Rachman, Clara Mucci

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000928327
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychologie
• Subtopic: Psychoanalyse

Arnold Wm. Rachman and Clara Mucci provide a detailed examination of the significance of Sándor Ferenczi's paradigm shifting theory of trauma, the Confusion of Tongues, and confirm its relevance for the psychoanalytic theory and analysis of trauma today.

As the first alternative to Freud's theory of the Oedipal complex, Ferenczi's Confusion of Tongues theory expanded the theoretical and clinical boundaries of psychoanalysis to establish that psychological trauma as a result of childhood sexual abuse and trauma experiences are a significant contributing factor to the development of psychological disorders. The authors address the lack of attention paid to the significance of sexual abuse trauma to understanding psychological ill health in psychoanalysis, and integrate the latest research on neurobiology to demonstrate how Ferenczi's theory is meaningful to understanding many aspects of human behavior today.

This work will be formative to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists both in training and in practice and provide renewed insight into the treatment of childhood sexual abuse and psychological trauma.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Our Collaboration
• 1 The Origin of Ferenczi's Confusion of Tongues Concept in the Biblical Narrative of the Tower of Babel
• 2 Ferenczi's Presentation of the Confusion of Tongues Paper: The 12th International Psychoanalytic Congress, Wiesbaden, Germany, September 4, 1932
• 3 Freud's Diagnosis of Sándor Ferenczi as Having a Pseudologia Fantastica Disorder
• 4 Freud's Denunciation of Ferenczi and the Confusion of Tongues: His Self-Analysis, “Emotional Blindness,” and Pathologizing of Ferenczi
• 5 Traditional Psychoanalysis's Totschweigen Campaign to Silence the Confusion of Tongues Paper
• 6 The Confusion of Tongues Between Freud and Ferenczi
• 7 Ferenczi's Alternative Confusion of Tongues Theory to Freud's Oedipal Complex Theory: Expanding the Psychoanalytical Perspective to Include Trauma
• 8 Confusion of Tongues Contribution to the Evolution of Theory and Method in Psychoanalysis
• 9 Confusion of Tongues and the Language of Sexuality
• 10 A Contemporary View of Analyzing Childhood Sexual Trauma
• 11 The Confusion of Tongues between Freud and Dora
• 12 The Analysis Between Sándor Ferenczi and Elizabeth Severn: Origin of the Confusion of Tongues Paradigm and Trauma Analysis
• 13 The “Two-Person Psychology”: The Necessity to Extend the Freudian Theory to the Reality of the Interpersonal Traumatic Development
• 14 Three Levels of Trauma of Human Agency and the Problems of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) Categories for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – PTSD
• 15 Therapy for Trauma of Human Agency: “What Has Been Damaged in a Relationship Needs to be Healed in a Relationship”
• 16 The Analysis Between Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud: A Confusion of Tongues
• 17 The Confusion of Tongues of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson: A First-Person Account of Captivity and Trauma in Colonial America
• 18 The Confusion of Tongues of an Abducted Child: The Case of Elizabeth Smart
• 19 The Confusion of Tongues Trauma Between Franz Kafka and His Father
• Index