Preface and Acknowledgments
I. The American Independent Tradition: Loewald, Erikson, and the (Possible) Rise of Intersubjective Ego Psychology
Part I. From Freud to Erikson
2. Civilization and Its Discontents and Beyond: Drives, Identity, and Freud’s Sociology
3. "The Question of a Weltanschauung," "Thoughts for the Times on War and Death," and "Why War?": Whatever Happened to the Link between Psychoanalysis and the Social?
4. Born into a World at War: Affect and Identity in a War Baby Cohort
Part II. The Psychoanalytic Vision of Hans Loewald
5. The Psychoanalytic Vision of Hans Loewald
6. Reflections on Loewald’s "Internalization, Separation, Mourning, and the Superego"
7. A Different Universe: Reading Loewald through "On the Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis"
Part III. American Independence: Theory and Practice
8. From Behind the Couch: Uncertainty and Indeterminacy in Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice
9. Listening to James McLaughlin: Tribute to an American Independent
10. Regard for Otherness: Reading Warren PolandPart IV. Individuality as Bedrock in the Consulting Room and Beyond
11. Toward an American Independent Tradition: Recapitulation
12. Beyond the Dyad: Individual Psychology, Social World
13. Why Is It Easy to Be a Psychoanalyst and a Feminist but Not a Psychoanalyst and a Sociologist?Afterword: Could You Direct Me to the Individuology Department?
14. "Could You Direct Me to the Individuology Department?" Psychoanalysis, the Academy, and the Self
Nancy J. Chodorow is Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Professor of Sociology Emerita, University of California, Berkeley, and Lecturer Part-time in Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School. She is author of five previous books, including the groundbreaking The Reproduction of Mothering.
"One of Nancy Chodorow's many gifts is her capacity to brilliantly
synthesize diverse ideas and perspectives. This new book of her
collected works takes the reader on a marvelous journey that
describes her evolution from a sociologist and feminist scholar to
a highly respected psychoanalyst. She sees the value of integrating
ego psychology and intersubjectivity, and she charts a course that
has her own stamp on it while also incorporating the thinking of
Loewald, Poland, McLaughlin and others. She has an impressive
breadth of knowledge, and the reader emerges from this volume with
an expanded understanding of American psychoanalysis and a deep
appreciation of the interface between the sociocultural and the
psychoanalytic. It is an extraordinary accomplishment, and I highly
recommend it to all mental health professionals." --Glen O.
Gabbard, MD, Author, Love and Hate in the Analytic
Setting"Historically fascinating and packed with information, Nancy
Chodorow’s remarkable study of American psychoanalysis opens out
into something much wider. Her primary focus is on the relation
between social relationships and individuality. Sociology and
psychoanalysis, she says, have both been impoverished by not
exploring the links and tensions between them. She finds parallels
within psychoanalysis itself, where some analysts stress
relationships as primary, while others emphasise the individual
psyche. Chodorow’s twin peaks in this landscape are Erik Erikson
and Hans Loewald. Setting these in dialogue with each other,
Chodorow reflects her own cultural and psychoanalytic journeyings.
Her discussion of Erikson’s and Loewald’s ideas, and of what others
have done with them, amounts to a history of American
psychoanalysis. It is an extraordinary survey. It also extends well
beyond America, to include the British Independent Group and other
aspects of European psychoanalysis. Chodorow’s call for a fresh
relationship between psychoanalysis and sociology, anthropology and
psychology, and between clinical practice and the university, opens
new horizons in many directions. Reading this book will be an
education to both analysts and academics worldwide." -- Michael
Parsons, British Psychoanalytical Society and French Association of
Psychoanalysis"In this collection of essays, Nancy Chodorow, the
renowned psychoanalyst and sociologist, and author of the brilliant
Reproduction of Mothering, issues a call to those in the therapy
hour, the classroom and beyond - to join the "ear" and "eye" of the
book’s title. But she adds to this call a startling message to both
sides of the union. Drawing from Hans Loewald, she urges therapists
to attune that "psychoanalytic ear" to the patient as a unique,
separate, meaning-making "I." In all the talk of a patient-analyst
dyad, don’t lose sight of the inner life of the individual patient,
she warns. And to social scientists she says, "don’t lose sight of
the person in the pattern." As an object of study in the
university, she adds in an arresting final chapter, the "self" has
become homeless. For if sociology tells students about social
structures, English departments focus on narrative, and psychology
veers into cognitive science, where in all this is the self? A
thoughtful and highly illuminating collection." --Arlie Hochschild,
Author, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the
American Right and The Managed Heart: the Commercialization of
Human Feeling"Who better than Nancy Chodorow, the
sociologist/anthropologist and psychoanalyst and brilliant master
cartographer of theory, to draw the map of a deeply clinically
familiar yet previously unrecognized terrain in psychoanalysis? She
names "intersubjective ego psychology," or "cultural ego
psychology," and calls these "The American Independent Tradition."
Even in her first book, Chodorow integrated the connecting lines
between the outside domestic phenomenon of mothering in society and
the individual’s inside psychological processes of herself being
mothered. This present visionary collection of essays shows her
best skills of integration. Her quest turns to how sociology
affects psychoanalysis, as well as the obverse. This worldly
sensibility, once celebrated by Freud but now neglected, is crying
out for attention to help expand for the current individual patient
an overdone indulgent claim of "knowing" the mind of the other
merely through a focus on intense self-introspection. Chodorow
calls us to our American roots in reminding us of the tools to
celebrate individual minds from within and in their own social
milieux, anchoring this independent tradition of thought in Loewald
and Erikson. Exciting modern analysts like McLaughlin and Poland
show the way as practitioners within this newly named tradition.
Chodorow’s ideas are groundbreaking for our future." --Rosemary H.
Balsam, M.D., Yale Medical School; Training and Supervising Analyst
Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis; Sigourney Award,
2018
"One of Nancy Chodorow's many gifts is her capacity to brilliantly
synthesize diverse ideas and perspectives. This new book of her
collected works takes the reader on a marvelous journey that
describes her evolution from a sociologist and feminist scholar to
a highly respected psychoanalyst. She sees the value of integrating
ego psychology and intersubjectivity, and she charts a course that
has her own stamp on it while also incorporating the thinking of
Loewald, Poland, McLaughlin and others. She has an impressive
breadth of knowledge, and the reader emerges from this volume with
an expanded understanding of American psychoanalysis and a deep
appreciation of the interface between the sociocultural and the
psychoanalytic. It is an extraordinary accomplishment, and I highly
recommend it to all mental health professionals." Glen O. Gabbard,
MD, Author, Love and Hate in the Analytic Setting"Historically
fascinating and packed with information, Nancy Chodorow’s
remarkable study of American psychoanalysis opens out into
something much wider. Her primary focus is on the relation between
social relationships and individuality. Sociology and
psychoanalysis, she says, have both been impoverished by not
exploring the links and tensions between them. She finds parallels
within psychoanalysis itself, where some analysts stress
relationships as primary, while others emphasise the individual
psyche. Chodorow’s twin peaks in this landscape are Erik Erikson
and Hans Loewald. Setting these in dialogue with each other,
Chodorow reflects her own cultural and psychoanalytic journeyings.
Her discussion of Erikson’s and Loewald’s ideas, and of what others
have done with them, amounts to a history of American
psychoanalysis. It is an extraordinary survey. It also extends well
beyond America, to include the British Independent Group and other
aspects of European psychoanalysis. Chodorow’s call for a fresh
relationship between psychoanalysis and sociology, anthropology and
psychology, and between clinical practice and the university, opens
new horizons in many directions. Reading this book will be an
education to both analysts and academics worldwide." Michael
Parsons, British Psychoanalytical Society and French Psychoanalytic
Association, Author, The Dove that Returns, The Dove that Vanishes
and Living Psychoanalysis"In this collection of essays, Nancy
Chodorow, the renowned psychoanalyst and sociologist, and author of
the brilliant Reproduction of Mothering, issues a call to those in
the therapy hour, the classroom and beyond - to join the "ear" and
"eye" of the book’s title. But she adds to this call a startling
message to both sides of the union. Drawing from Hans Loewald, she
urges therapists to attune that "psychoanalytic ear" to the patient
as a unique, separate, meaning-making "I." In all the talk of a
patient-analyst dyad, don’t lose sight of the inner life of the
individual patient, she warns. And to social scientists she says,
"don’t lose sight of the person in the pattern." As an object of
study in the university, she adds in an arresting final chapter,
the "self" has become homeless. For if sociology tells students
about social structures, English departments focus on narrative,
and psychology veers into cognitive science, where in all this is
the self? A thoughtful and highly illuminating collection." Arlie
Hochschild, Author, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning
on the American Right and The Managed Heart: the Commercialization
of Human Feeling"Who better than Nancy Chodorow, the
sociologist/anthropologist and psychoanalyst and brilliant master
cartographer of theory, to draw the map of a deeply clinically
familiar yet previously unrecognized terrain in psychoanalysis? She
names "intersubjective ego psychology," or "cultural ego
psychology," and calls these "The American Independent Tradition."
Even in her first book, Chodorow integrated the connecting lines
between the outside domestic phenomenon of mothering in society and
the individual’s inside psychological processes of herself being
mothered. This present visionary collection of essays shows her
best skills of integration. Her quest turns to how sociology
affects psychoanalysis, as well as the obverse. This worldly
sensibility, once celebrated by Freud but now neglected, is crying
out for attention to help expand for the current individual patient
an overdone indulgent claim of "knowing" the mind of the other
merely through a focus on intense self-introspection. Chodorow
calls us to our American roots in reminding us of the tools to
celebrate individual minds from within and in their own social
milieux, anchoring this independent tradition of thought in Loewald
and Erikson. Exciting modern analysts like McLaughlin and Poland
show the way as practitioners within this newly named tradition.
Chodorow’s ideas are groundbreaking for our future." Rosemary H.
Balsam, M.D., Yale Medical School; Training and Supervising Analyst
Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis; Sigourney Award,
2018"Chodorow's impressive effort demonstrates her capacity to
write in such a way as to integrate, to build bridges, rather than
to polarize and divide. Over the course of her career Chodorow
presented at a multitude of plenaries and lectures. In this book
she assembles her past writings along with newer thinking."Paula L.
Ellman, training and supervising analyst in the Contemporary
Freudian Society (CFS) and the IPA. To read this review in full
please see the following: Paula L. Ellman (2021) The psychoanalytic
ear and the sociological eye: toward an American independent
tradition, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 102:1,
197-201, DOI: 10.1080/00207578.2020.1795870
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