Freud, Jung, Klein - The Fenceless Field: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Analytical Psychology

264 Pages·1998·1.39 MB·English

by  Michael Fordham

Freud, Jung, Klein—the fenceless field

Freud, Jung, Klein—the fenceless
field
Essays on psychoanalysis and analytical psychology
Michael Fordham
Edited by Roger Hobdell

London and New York
First published 1995
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Editor’s introduction, editorial matter and selection © 1995 Roger Hobdell;
Introduction to Part I and Chapters 1, 2 and 3 © 1995 Michael Fordham;
Chapter 4 and ‘An appreciation of C.G.Jung’s Answer to Job’ in Chapter 12
© British Journal of Medical Psychology;
‘Review of Jacobson’s The Self and the Object World’ in Chapter 10
© International Journal of Psychoanalysis;
‘A tribute to D.W.Winnicott’ in Chapter 10 © The Scientific Bulletin of
the British Psychoanalytical Society;
all other papers and reviews © Journal of Analytical Psychology
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Contents

Editor’s introduction vi
Acknowledgements vii

Part I Towards a current model

Introduction to Part I 3
3 Freud, Jung and Klein 6
2 Identification 52
3 The model 58

Part II On analytical psychology

4 The development and status of Jung’s researches 67
5 Note on psychological types 88
6 Memories and thoughts about C.G.Jung 93
7 Analytical psychology in England 104
8 The emergence of child analysis 120
9 Neumann and childhood 131

Part III Reviews and short articles

10 Articles on psychoanalysis 152
11 On Donald Meltzer and the Kleinian Development 184
12 On analytical psychologists 203
A bibliography of the writings of Michael Fordham 224
Bibliography 233
Index 239
Editor’s introduction
When the essay on Freud, Jung and Klein was first shown to me, the significance and
fascination of it was obvious, but equally it was clear that it was not long enough in itself
to form a book. Michael Fordham agreed that other papers of his should be collected
around the subject to form a coherent whole.
The first part of the book may be seen as the history of that area of analytic thought
that led up to his own work. Parts II and IIImay be seen as amplifying that journey, from
the chapter on Jung’s researches originally published in 1945, to his 1993 review of
Donald Meltzer’s The Claustrum.
Running through the book is the interdependence of clinical experience and theory.
The clinical experience in the analytic setting is a common field that allows theories from
whatever school to be tested. The book therefore crosses boundaries not only between the
work of Freud and Jung, but also between theorists within those schools.
In the 1930s, the young Michael Fordham visited Jung in Zurich to question him about
his understanding of transference, a visit which Fordham has described as a heroic
endeavour. After the Second World War, Jung for his part listened critically to
Fordham’s ideas without being dictatorial or heavy-handed. One of those ideas was
Fordham’s theory of a primary self that deintegrates and reintegrates. Fordham found
Jung receptive by then to the proposition that individuation is a lifelong process, not
confined to the second half of life. As the following articles were written at different
times, the theory of a primary self is repeated in several places. Rather than edit most of
them out, I have left several of the repetitions in situso that the reader may have different
ways of approaching this fundamental but complex theory. Through it, Michael Fordham
has given analytical psychology a theory of development for infancy and childhood that
Jung left open.
R.H.
Acknowledgements
I would like to express my gratitude to Dr Fordham for allowing me such a free hand in
selecting the material for this book. My work in editing it is given in gratitude for all that
I have learned and benefited from him over a quarter of a century. My thanks are also due
to Elizabeth Urban, whose support, clarity of thinking and belief in the book have greatly
added to the form it has taken. Thanks too to June Ansell, whose competence and
willingness made the preparation of the manuscript so much easier.
R.H.
Part I
Towards a current model