The Right to Our Own History: Paradoxical Transference and the “Friendly Foreigner” Commentary on Orna Guralnik Paper

Abstract

This paper comments on Dr. Guralnik’s paper and in particular reflects on how the “history of an ‘other’” and “History with a capital H” can be brought to analysis without turning the psychoanalytical process into sociology or “applied” psychoanalysis.

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Haydée Faimberg

Haydée Faimberg, M.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society (IPA). She received the Mary Sigourney Award 2013 and the Haskell Norman Award 2005. She created the “‘listening to listening’ Faimberg method” to discuss clinical material in groups.