David James Fisher is Senior Faculty at the New Center for Psychoanalysis and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He specializes in the history of psychoanalysis, the convergence of cultural history with psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytic applications to politics, movies, literature, and works of art. His background is in European Cultural and Intellectual History. He has been practicing psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Los Angeles for 45 years.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I

EROTICS, TRANSITIONAL OBJECTS, AND DREAMWORK

Chapter 1

Stoller, Erotics, Sexual Excitement

Chapter 2

Transitional Objects and Generativity: Ekstein's Blending of Erikson and Winnicott

Chapter 3

Concerning the Life Cycle of the Transitional Object (by Rudolf Ekstein)

Chapter 4

A Conversation with Adam Phillips

Chapter 5

Comments on James S. Grotstein's Dreambook

PART II

THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

Chapter 6

Sartre's Freud: Dimensions of Intersubjectivity in The Freud Scenario

Chapter 7

Reflections on the Psychoanalytic Free Clinics

Chapter 8

A Power Structure Analysis of Psychoanalytic Institutes (Followed by an Interview with Douglas Kirsner)

Chapter 9

On the History of Lacanian Psychoanalysis in France

Chapter 10

What Was Revolutionary about the Psychoanalytic Revolution in Mind?

Chapter 11

Discovering Wounded Healers in A Dangerous Method

Chapter 12

Peter Loewenberg's Contribution to Psychohistory and Psychoanalysis

PART III

TOWARD A PSYCHOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF RESISTANCE AND COLLABORATION DURING VICHY FRANCE

Chapter 13

Reflections on the Collaboration and the Jewish Question

Chapter 14

To Resist and to Protect: A Critical Analysis of Weapons of the Spirit

PART IV

FUNERAL ORATIONS

Chapter 15

Father's Day

Chapter 16

Remembering Robert J. Stoller, M.D. (1924-1991)

Chapter 17

Eulogy for Joseph Natterson, M.D. (1923-2023)

PART V

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT

Chapter 18

Trump as Symptom

Chapter 19

Against the Separation of Children from Parents at the U.S. Border (with Van DeGolia)

Chapter 20

A Manifesto for Psychoanalytic Education with Sixteen Suggestions

Chapter 21

A Psychoanalyst Serves On a Jury

PART VI

EPILOGUE

Chapter 22

The Intellectual Itinerary of a Psychoanalyst: David James Fisher Interviewed by Paul Elovitz