{"title":"The unheimlich ghosts of Bildung: on reading Martin Bergmann reading Paul Federn.","authors":"Ian S Miller","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09515-8","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Martin Bergmann demonstrates different aspects of what is very distinctively, a psychoanalytic orientation of mind in extension of viewpoint and value, having no equal in our postmodern world. Unselfconscious in forthright use of the analyst's personality in demonstration of psychoanalytic thinking, Bergmann's 1963 paper \"The Place of Paul Federn's Ego Psychology in Psychoanalytic Metapsychology\" presents a Rosetta Stone for discerning the Jewishly inflected and particular cultural presence of Bildung (Mosse, 1985; Sorkin, 1983, 1987), the Enlightenment practice of self-development, in the textual history of psychoanalysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-025-09515-8","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Psychology","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Martin Bergmann demonstrates different aspects of what is very distinctively, a psychoanalytic orientation of mind in extension of viewpoint and value, having no equal in our postmodern world. Unselfconscious in forthright use of the analyst's personality in demonstration of psychoanalytic thinking, Bergmann's 1963 paper "The Place of Paul Federn's Ego Psychology in Psychoanalytic Metapsychology" presents a Rosetta Stone for discerning the Jewishly inflected and particular cultural presence of Bildung (Mosse, 1985; Sorkin, 1983, 1987), the Enlightenment practice of self-development, in the textual history of psychoanalysis.
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis is an international psychoanalytic quarterly founded in 1941 by Karen Horney. The journal''s purpose is to be an international forum for communicating a broad range of contemporary theoretical, clinical, professional and cultural concepts of psychoanalysis and for presenting related investigations in allied fields. It is a fully peer-reviewed journal, which welcomes psychoanalytic papers from all schools of thought that address the interests and concerns of scholars and practitioners of psychoanalysis and contribute meaningfully to the understanding of human experience. The journal publishes original papers, special issues devoted to a single topic, book reviews, film reviews, reports on the activities of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Center, and comments.