My Life in Theory Book

	Toward a Unitary Psychoanalysis	xi
	Acknowledgments	xv
1	Preview and Overview	1
2	The Early Course of Psychoanalytic Theory	15
	The Appeal of Theory	17
	At the Beginning	18
	Interpersonal Affective Tensions in the Early Soil	20
	Unity and Pluralism from the Beginning	25
	World War I: The Aggressive Drive	26
	Freud's Second Phase	27
	Post-Freud	28
	The Second Stage of Divisive Theories	29
3	The Methodology of Scientific Progression	35
	The Progression of Theory	37
	Ideation and Affects in Theory Formation	39
	The Expanding Field	40
	Four Flaws and Fallacies	45
	The Mainstream Is No Longer Main	50
	A Unified Theory, and Diversity in Unity	51
4	Personal Scientific Odyssey	55
	1940: The Field as I Began	57
	The Reporter-Narrator	59
	Medical School	61
	Neurology	63
	To Psychiatry, and into the Field of Psychoanalysis	66
	The Writing of Papers	68
	Otto Fenichel	73
	Genealogy	77
5	The First Half of the Second Half-Century: The 1940s to the 1960s	81
	World War II	83
	The Army Air Force, 1943-1946	84
	A Prophetic Group Effect	87
	After the War: Los Angeles, 1946	90
	Ego Psychology	94
	Psychosomatic Medicine and Medical Psychoanalysis	95
	The Splits around 1950	99
	The Fifties	105
	A Reflection on the Sixties	111
	The Presidencies	115
	Stanford: The Think Tank	118
6	The 1960s Continue; Platform to the 1970s: The Stages of Decline of a Unified Theory	121
	The Crest of the Wave and the Downward Turn	123
	The Cracks Now Within	124
	Los Angeles: The Sixties	126
	Topeka	141
	Prelude to Rome	144
	Rome: Kohut, 1969	146
	Anna Freud	155
	Reflections on Theory from the Vienna Congress	175
	The Spread and Radiation: Receptive Soil	185
	My Parallel Work on the Evolving Mainstream: The Intrapsychic Process	187
7	The 1970s and 1980s: Divergences	191
	More of the Cumulative Theory; the Unconscious Decision-Making Function of the Ego; the Psychoanalytic Theory of Action	193
	The Compromise of Integrity	196
	Los Angeles from the Seventies	202
	A New Order: The American as Target	208
	My Contrasting Experiences in the American	212
	Multiple and Reciprocal Changes	215
	Toward Pluralism	216
	Lay Analysis	216
	Lawsuits	220
	Wallerstein	221
	Common Ground	223
	Chasing the Irrational	226
	How Many Theories?	227
	It Is What Each Theory Omits That Is the Problem	228
	The Positive Contributions of Many	229
8	The 1990s to 2000: Breaking the Bonds and Holding the Fort	233
	The Final Theoretical Path of the Century	235
	An Alternative to Alternative Theories	236
	Total Composite Psychoanalytic Theory	237
	Reason and "The Field" of Psychoanalysis: The Psychoanalysis of Public Opinion	238
	Changes in the Role of the Analyst: A Process Under Strain	242
	Knowledge and Authority	244
	Enactment	249
	Intersubjectivity	253
	The Altered Ground	256
	In the Meantime, Steady Advances	258
	My Outlooks: Some Social Extensions of Psychoanalytic Theory	259
	No New Paradigms	263
	Barcelona, 1997: Honorary President	265
9	The New Millennium	273
	January 1, 2000	275
	Comings Together: Modern Klein and Contemporary Freud	277
	Fusion and Secondary Revision: The Course of Schafer	279
	Unity with Disavowal: Fonagy	285
	Rapprochements: Continuing Conflicts	293
	Regrouping	302
	Loose Unity, the Latest Reversal, and Brenner's Change	304
	When the Dust Settles	309
Appendix I	Anita Rangell's "A Day with the Wolf Man"	315
Appendix II	Wolf Man's Letter (with translation)	325
	References	329
	Index	355