Description: Preface Introduction Part I - Disillusionment and the Ability to Mourn as a Central Psychological Theme in Freud's Life, Thought, and Social Circumstance, 1906-1914 1. Framing the Argument: Why "Disillusionment" and Why "The Ability to Mourn"? Literature Review: Freud's Most Creative Phase and Its Relevance for the 1906-1914 Period Mourning, the De-Idealization Experience, and Their Historical Correlates: Disillusionment and Disenchantment 2. De-Idealization in Freud's Life and Thought Life: Freud's Struggle with Jung and Abraham's Role in It Thought: "On Narcissism," "The Moses," and the Significance of Rome 3. De-Idealization and Freud's Social Circumstance: Movement and Culture Understanding the Psychoanalytic Movement as a Group Politics and Religion as Cultural Forces 4. Earlier and Later De-Idealizations: Count Thun and Romain Rolland Count Thun and Freud's Psychology of Politics Romain Rolland and Freud's Psychology of Religion 5. Freud's Mother, His Death Anxiety, and the Problem of History Freud's Death Anxiety and the Idea of a Maternal Presence Psychoanalysis, History, and the Study of Freud's Person Freud's Death and Jones's Idealization of Freud Part II - Disillusionment and the Social Origins of Psychoanalysis 6. Framing the Argument: Why Think Sociologically about Psychoanalysis? How to Think Sociologically about Psychoanalysis The Essential Tension: Analytic Access and a Common Culture 7. The Sociology of Freud's Self-Analysis and the Psychoanalytic Movement Sociological Reflections on Freud's Self-Analysis The Psychoanalytic Movement as a Psychological Culture 8. Tracking the Ideal-Type: Disenchantment and Psychological Discovery in the Lives of Three Followers Carl G. Jung: Psychoanalysis as Hermeneutics Otto Rank: Psychoanalysis as Art Ernest Jones: Psychoanalysis as Science The Dissipation of the Movement and Freud's Turn to the "Cunning of Culture" 9. Final Sociological Reflections: Psychoanalysis, Science, and Society Freud's Metapsychology and the Sociology of Physical Science 1920s London, Object Relations, and the Collapse of the Metapsychology The Struggle to Mourn in the Sociological Tradition: The Case of Max Weber Conclusion: The Sociological Mechanism Underlying Psychoanalytic Healing, When It Occurs, in the Analytic Situation Part III - Mourning, Individuation, and the Creation of Meaning In Today's Psychological Society 10. Framing the Argument with Freud's "Little Discourse" on Mourning and Monuments Three Contradictions in Freud's Theory of Culture Mourning, Monuments, and Individuation: A First Approximation 11. The Fate of the Ego in "Primitive" and "Civilized" Cultures: First Contradiction 12. The Plight of the Modern Ego Cut Off from Its Christian, Communal Past: Second Contrdiction 13. The Conflict between Religious Absolutism and Curiosity about The Inner World: Third Contradiction 14. Toward a Rapprochement with the Past: Mourning, Individuation, and the Creation of Meaning Epilogue: When the Mourning Is Over: Prospero's Speech at the End of The Tempest as a Model of Individuation Notes References Index

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