Thanks for responding to my seduction blog. I tried to send you an e-mail but it bounced back??? I was wondering if you would like to read my new novel about Lou, Tausk and Freud. If so, could you send me your snail address and I’ll ask my publisher to send you a copy. I’d be curious to hear what you think.
all best wishes,
Brenda

Psychoanalysis as seduction

by Brenda Webster
November 11, 2008, 11:31 am
The other day I found a blog by Laura Gonzales http://www.lauragonzales.co.uk that has some interesting speculations about art and psychoanalysis. But what really attracted me was her interest in the word “seduction”. Isn’t the transference itself a work of seduction, I wanted to ask her. Over days, hours, months the patient transfers his fantasies and hopes onto the silent figure sitting behind her shoulder. i had just been thinking about a moment recorded in the journal of one of German’s most famous women of letters where she visits Freud late at night and they have a long conversation about sex. She tells him that she always thought of her female inner spaces as filled with jewels. He encourages her to speak more. She tells him about having heard her parents having sex as a child. What is Freud doing here? It seems to me–and this is fact not fiction–that he is encouraging her to establish a transference. He isn’t going to get her into bed with him but he is going to seduce her mind and that will incidentally distance her from her current lover, Viktor Tausk. Lou Salome, the woman in question remained Freud’s faithful disciple until he died. This is part of the story I tell in my novel, Vienna Triangle.

http://drugsinmilk.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/what-is-the-guiding-principles-of-psychoanalysis/#comments

Not sure if you will be anywhere near NYC this November but I saw this and thought you might be interested. Looks like a good conference; http://www.cmps.edu/extension/annual_sci_conf.html

All the best.

Cheers,
-b