5 Classic Cases of Freud – Closing the Circle: The Wolf Man (the History of an Infantile Neurosis)

performance after a book

(5th volume of the mini-series: Sigmund Freud, "5 cases"; Foreword: Ruth Mack Brunswick; Afterword: Dr. David Ieroham, M.D; Translation by: Svetla Marinova, Antoaneta Koleva; Edited by Nina Nikolova; Design: Yana Levieva)

"Repetitive, scary dream depicting prowling wolves... Its interpretation will get both participants in the adventure called analysis including therapist and patient - revealing distant trauma. Who is the man letting himself in Freud’s good hands? 23 years old smart Russian, son of a wealthy lawyer, who has arrived in Vienna for consultations because of severe neurosis disturbing his life. Freud began tackling with his case and carried out psychoanalysis from 1910 to 1914 when he decided to terminate it for a special purpose. Freud described the case in 1914 but he handed in his text to the publisher only in 1918 and finally in 1924 the book was published in its final version. Like any of the five cases this book is worth nothing less than a novel and clearly shows us the Freud’s genius in action. In this case the patient referring us to the themes of castration and primal scene in which the child observed parents copulation became legendary and was named "The Wolf Man". In his 92 year long real life the patient repeatedly renewed his analysis. The case had its psychoanalytical Renaissance when in 1926 the already sick Freud referred the patient to the talented Ruth Mack Brunswick. This volume presents her famous text on the case! A talented shift from neurosis to psychosis and powerful evidence of the importance of the analyst’s gender. The Wolf Man is probably the most considerable event in the history of the psychoanalytic tradition. A living flesh is shivering in front of us, collecting treatment contributing to the theory, material for specialists, food for introspection fans, pleasure for readers of all kinds.”

An event gathering together the team which created and promoted all cases included in the miniseries, and imagination-gifted friends.

In Bulgarian.