The Cut and the Building of Psychoanalysis

This volume presents a fresh perspective and deeper understanding of the history of psychoanalysis, taking into account social, cultural and contemporary relational views. Exploring Freuds unconscious communication and identification with his patients, Emma Eckstein in particular, the book sheds new light on the logic which informed a number of events central to Freuds self-analysis, and the theories he formulated to found and establish psychoanalysis.